I have an HTC Desire. The summary of my annoyances are here: http://blogs.herod.net/steven/archives/402
On Aug 23, 4:37 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... which definitely means to me that I've to buy a 1.5 phone for my > > development before upgrading my Droid. I can't develop on a smartphone > > that suddenly becomes much faster than most of the devices around. > > Hardware: Ehh yeah but that's the same problem as with any other > computational device, Moore's law taught us this. That you only > associate this with Android devices has to do with the headroom modern > desktop CPU's have created over the last decade. The HTC Magic does > not have a FPU, the HTC Click does not have a GPU and so forth. > > Software: The term "most of the devices around" is a moving target, > Android 2.1+ is on 65% of all devices and that seems to be the new de- > facto standard i.e. MonoTouch target's that profile (with plans to > support 1.6+ later on). Find your lowest-common-denominator, if your > app performs fine on that, you should be ok. I hear our European > Milestone only gets 2.2 by Q4 so you have some time yet. > > 3) Development: You have options though; disable the JIT, underclock > the CPU or load entire new ROM's onto the phone via RomManager. It > takes a total of 5 min to flash and reboot a new image - not unlike > dual-booting and testing your Java(tm) application on various desktop > OS'es. > > > Android is a disappointment to me. It requires far more investment > > than my iPhone in terms of effort to manage and use the phone... and > > the locked down apps and sluggish update (i.e. no Froyo yet) thanks to > > HTC and the telco, don't help. Other's seem to love it, so its all a > > personal preference. > > I'm guilty of converting my sister and dad (after refusing to pay > Apple $300 for replacement of glass) over on Android from iPhone, and > they are not missing anything. Some of their experiences are: > + Can use their phone as a hard-drive > + Saves an ISP subscription > + Widgets, not just buttons on the desktop > + Hardware back button > > Now you don't really talk about what phone you have so that makes it > hard to go deeper into. Before you cry out "fragmentation" though, > consider that a similar thing is happening on the iOS platform - > except there it appears to be cool. > > /Casper -- 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.
