On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:28:43AM -0400, Matthias Johnson wrote: > Oh and I guess another selling point for the Droid is it has been rooted. > Does the Incredible allow you to ssh from it? I think the Droid is going to > be my pick.
No US vendor is yet limiting what types of apps you can get, as far as I know. SSH is just userspace. "Rooted" isn't so exciting unless you plan to do some serious hacking on it. Mine is rooted because I'm porting Kismet and doing USB host stuff, unless you're doing that sort of thing, there's no reason to care. You cannot, trivially, root the droid anymore unless it was already rooted and you took precautions, the 2.1 update fixed that. There are ways, and I could help you at a meeting, probably, though there are also risks (you have to nuke it to factory 2.0.1 and rebuild it, or apply a hacked partial firmware that nukes the recovery partition to factory and subtly corrupts it so it doesn't auto-update back to secure). You need to hack root to get ad-hoc tether mode as well. I do not consider this a great idea, because verizon IS looking for this kind of thing and it's pretty obvious when you're doing tethered data vs cell. Also remember that when you root the phone and start running downloaded root code, it could SERIOUSLY own your system and your personal data, and you wouldn't necessarily be able to tell. Everyone seems all happy to install any app from the store that requires root,but you have NO IDEA what it might be doing under the covers. tl;dr - Root shouldn't be your determining factor unless you have specific goals -m > > Matthias Johnson > > On Apr 26, 2010, at 10:24 AM, Jesse K Ziter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Google just updated the page saying "For Verizon's network, you can buy the > Droid Incredible by HTC, a powerful Android phone and similarly > feature-packed cousin of the Nexus One." as per the droid or the incredible > I guess it comes down to the keyboard. I have rocked the G1 since its > inception and never felt the need to upgrade because of the awesomeness of > the cyanogenmod. The Droid and the Incredible are both awesome. I just > jumped ship myself and pre ordered the incredible after that announcement by > google. I would have deffinatley gone for the nexus due to the xda forum and > cyanogenmod, they have kept my trusty G1 running as smooth if not more than > the droid for over a year. All that being said my G1 had all the > functionality of the droid with the custom rom and third party apps. I would > worry more about the form factor and hardware. > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Matthias Johnson < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > I have the option of getting a new phone for Verizon and I want an > > Android just not sure which one. The Eris seems to be in the rear so > > really it's a question of Droid vs Incredible. Incredible has a 8 > > megapixel camera vs a 5 on the droid but I really could care less. To > > me the big differences are OLED and Snapdragon for the Incredible. > > Keyboard, screen size, and true Android software for the Droid. For > > me the real Android software is the issue. Reviews I have read are > > that the Incredible win this catagory because it is 2.1 but it seems > > like a loser to me since it is Sense and you then have to wait for HTC > > to update like the Eris situation. Any thoughts would be much > > appreciated. By the way where is the Verizon nexxus? > > > > Matthias Johnson > > _______________________________________________ > > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > > May 5 - Crack and LLVM > > Jun 2 - Android > > Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > May 5 - Crack and LLVM > Jun 2 - Android > Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > May 5 - Crack and LLVM > Jun 2 - Android > Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <[email protected]> GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 Know the rules other people live by. Know them well. Know them in the same way terrorists know about cars: so that you know where to put the bomb.
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