Adam G. wrote: > Cons: > * Hardware closed, to direct deployment without dev phone or > "jailbreak" > I may be wrong, but it is my understanding that you can indeed install any application on a G1 (dev or not), without a problem. You just need to put the .apk on some server to be able to download and install it on the phone. I think there is also a way to install an app from the sd card.
> * Phone only works with Google account > That is true, and can indeed be a problem. For example by default (meaning: there might be hacks to bypass this) you can't use the phone at all, until you logged into the google account! Plus, you need a sim card to do that (this can't be done over wifi). But (and again, I'm no expert so please correct me if I'm wrong), if you have a dev phone, you should be able to build the firmware yourself and install it on the phone, in which case you'll be running a slightly different version of Android (the same as the one you see on the emulator). And the Google account requirement is not there on this version. > * Phone only runs with a sim card and a data plan > See above. > * 25$ to register for Android Market as developer > Yes, but that is only required if you want to actually publish your application on the 'market place'. But you can always install your own app on your device without having to publish it there, and also you can simply publish it somewhere else. > Compared to the iPhone it seams to me that the G1 is more closed, even > if it is based an open source platform. You need the sim card, you > need a data plan, every thing not needed on an iPhone nor on a WM > device. > Note that for the iPhone, the publishing part is "harder" IMHO. BoD --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
