If you're budget conscious, get a Droid. You can buy on on eBay for
$250-300. More Android users have Droids than any other device. Only a
handful of N1's were sold. If you're not a Verizon customer and want
to use the thing as a phone, you can get a Milestone (Droid with GSM)
instead for about
Thanks for the replies.
So I won't need a so called 'rooted' phone for development? I am
using Eclipse and my program has an NDK component. Pardon my
ignorance, but exactly how does the communication with the phone take
place (USB?). Will I be able to debug my application on the actual
phone?
John Gaby wrote:
So I won't need a so called 'rooted' phone for development?
No.
Pardon my
ignorance, but exactly how does the communication with the phone take
place (USB?).
Yes. Some stuff, like app installs, you can do over WiFi if you want
(e.g., download off your Web site), but mostly
Mark Murphy wrote:
If you get an unlocked GSM phone and have a friend with a T-Mobile or
ATT account, hopefully you can borrow their SIM if needed to get your
phone set up.
To clarify: you borrowed SIM will need to be for an account with a data
plan.
After that, you can get by with just
Thanks again. So if I don't need to use it as a phone and my
application does not use any phone features, I should be able do do
without connecting it to a phone network?
How compatible are these phones. If I get a, say, Nexus One, and get
my app working on that, can I expect it to work on a
John Gaby wrote:
Thanks again. So if I don't need to use it as a phone and my
application does not use any phone features, I should be able do do
without connecting it to a phone network?
You may need it on the phone network for the initial setup, hence the
loaner SIM. After that, it does not
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