Joshua, First of all, let me say it was good to see you again last night at the "15th Anniversary of GNHLUG".
Secondly, what you say is true about the signed images. The only way you could get an unlocked, unsigned G1 was to join the Google Developer's program ($25.) and then you could buy *one*. That was o.k. for a developer, but for a Value-Added-Reseller or person trying to develop a program for large-scale deployment, having each one of your customers individually sign up as a "Google developer" and order their phone was a little impractical. Third, be careful when buying "3G" phones that are not from the carriers in the USA and Canada. Currently the North American "3G" is not the same as the rest of the world's "3G", and your phone will fall back to 2.x GSM Edge technology. Carriers in the USA and Canada adjust their phone's frequencies to line up with what they use, but a lot of the phones (the HTC 3G Hero purchased in Europe "unlocked", for example) does not work on T-Mobile or Roger's networks in a 3G mode. New spectrum is supposedly opening up in North America, but that is not here yet, and even it is the OS and firmware would probably have to be updated to use it. md _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
