Answer inline.... On Feb 5, 12:19 pm, BoD <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. Cool! Will try that as soon as I got an G1 :)
> > > * 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 Okay, so I may search for the dev firmware to bypass that requirement... > > 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 Thanks for the clarifications, I think I am now much more clear about the whole situation! Adam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
