[wellylug] Android: A Better iPhone ?

[Donald Gordon]

If Google will still sell you an ADP1, those were USD400 (coincidentally the
price of an iPhone when they first launched).  Although they didn't ship
them to NZ when I got mine, I had someone in the US forward it on to me.

donald

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Sam Vilain <sam at vilain.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 09:00 +1300, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> > http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7604/1.html
>
> If anyone finds out a good place to buy these without paying $1099 for
> the HTC Magic or having to sign a 2-year contract ... let me know :)
> There should be some cheap knock-offs available.  eg the aPhone A6 looks
> like a direct iPhone rip-off aesthetically but runs Android.
>
> The new Motorola Droid is CDMA only, for Verizon in the US - it's got
> much more RAM, faster processor and runs Android 2.0.  The older phones
> won't run the newer Android version (which has just been released) but
> the 1.x OS series is probably going to be alive and well for some time
> anyway so it doesn't matter that much...
>
> Sam
>
>
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