Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting style on HTC Dream

2009-11-14 Thread felix
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 04:29:49PM +, James wrote: My son wants a droid phone. I'm pushing him towards the HTC droid as I think we can customize it, if not eventually run embedded Gentoo on this phone. I have a G1, normal model, not flashed. I too wanted it because of its physical

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting style on HTC Dream

2009-11-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:21:06 -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I have a G1, normal model, not flashed. I too wanted it because of its physical keyboard, but then someone developed a pay program ($5 I think, well worth it) called Better Keyboard which has been so good that I don't use the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting style on HTC Dream

2009-11-14 Thread felix
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 09:30:42AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:21:06 -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Plus it does not have multitouch like the iPhone or the new Motorola Droid, which would be a big improvement. That's a software limitation, the touchscreen supports

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting style on HTC Dream

2009-11-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 14 November 2009 11:30:42 Neil Bothwick wrote: I have not looked into these new phones much because my G1 is only a year old, still runs fine, and still has a year to go on the danged contract. But if I were looking for a new phone today, I would start by investigating the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting style on HTC Dream

2009-11-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 13 November 2009 23:35:21 James wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: Do you mean droid as a synonym for Android? yes, Verizon is offering the HTC ERIS (DROID) phone, in addition to the Mot DROID phone: http://www.htc.com/us/product/droideris/specification.html

[gentoo-user] Re: Quoting style on HTC Dream

2009-11-13 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: It's not an iPhone and Apple's psychosis doesn't enter the picture, I can install any user-space app I feel like. The warranty is already invalid though, for a different reason - I flashed it with an OS and firmware that's far superior to

[gentoo-user] Re: Quoting style on HTC Dream

2009-11-13 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: Do you mean droid as a synonym for Android? yes, Verizon is offering the HTC ERIS (DROID) phone, in addition to the Mot DROID phone: http://www.htc.com/us/product/droideris/specification.html To flash it you need root privileges which is a