Thanks a lot, your answers gave me some clue about the differences and
now I think I'll be able to do the right decision.
Thank's again!
On Aug 28, 8:53 pm, Chris Stratton cs07...@gmail.com wrote:
On Aug 24, 9:09 am, Ran dahan...@gmail.com wrote:
What is the benefit of working with ADP1 over the other Android
phones ?
Just to expand on what others have said:
Cost seems comparable betwen a devphoneand a retailphoneat full
retail or plan price + termination fee, so it's really more a of a
technical question.
Reasons for a devphone
-sim unlocked (some such as tmobile may? do that if you pay full
retail or eventually on a plan)
-can change linux and system libraries
-can change pre-installed applications
-tmobile myfaves application sends periodic sms which costs money on
any other network
Reasons for _not_ getting a devphone
-only one older devphonemodel generally available at present
-dev phones can't buy paid applications from the market (including
your own)
-if you sell apps, you need to restrict yourself to the capabilities
of your users phones (and test on such a device!)
-various preinstalled proprietary applications missing (+/- depending
on your interest)
The not being able to change preinstalled applications is in my mind
the least anticipated, and most annoying, problem. There are many
areas where very small decisions of questionable wisdom in default
applications really hamper the user experience (even in the using it
just to make calls sense), but these can't be very readily changed on
a retailphone, particularly the parts most closely involved in the
telephone functionality.
As of this moment, I believe most of the retail phones are probably
still shipping with an easily rooted linux kernel, but that probably
will get closed up (already fixed in google's tree) and they will be
limited until another hole is found.
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