Android Dev Phone 1 owners are pretty much expected to handle their own business when it comes to firmware updates, but those of you who like to kick it official take note: El Goog's just released Android 1.1 for its totally unlocked version of the G1. Most of the fixes are to do with POP3 accounts, although
paid apps are now supported with a catch: you won't be able to access any paid apps that use Android's hilariously weak-ass copy protection features, because the ADP1 comes rooted out of the box and thus able to read / write the folder protected apps are stored in. So yeah, ADP1 owners now have access to paid apps that don't have copy protection -- we're guessing that's not a large number. Honestly, we don't see the point of this: nothing's ever going to stop piracy, and pissing off the people willing to buy $400 unlocked phones that don't come with support doesn't seem like the best way to build brand loyalty. Maybe you want to reconsider, guys?
posted Mar 9th 2009 8:01PM
If you ask me, Android and the G1 are the phones and phone OS of the future.
Only if Google smartens up, stops decisions like this, and enables multi-touch
what are you smoking
Actually it's a sound decision.
Imagine if everyone (in the normal world) knew how to jailbreak their iPhone and get apps for free off forums. It would end any App store/market. And yes not everyone could hack his phone. My friend has an iPhone and doesn't know how to download apps for free, and another friend can't disable his iPhone recognizing my Wifi, and was considering going to a "geek gathering" to fix this "problem".
As small as the Android market is, and as geeks are a huge fraction of the G1 holders, it's important to slow down piracy otherwise Android Market will be done and developers will turn away.
The same thing is happening to PC gaming now.
My friends are too stupid to do anything with anything slightly electronic. So I jailbreak their iPhones and iPods for $20.
:P Geeks will win in the end. It's just a matter of time.
Android will eventually be great, but the G1 is a POS.
I know about Google plan to develop an OS ... since forever, and about their portable device = phone. I hope everybody will understand that an OS must exist on every phone/smart | portable device.
"Geeks will win in the end" - hmmm
- if a developer wants to encrypt a data and not let you to "jailbreak your iPhone" he will do that.
But - no corporation want to invest money or effort in some thing like that... look at MS - they win ALL markets just by letting you "crack" the Windows...
While I wouldn't say that Android is a dud, I would say it's a candy pistol.
As a matter of fact nobody did ask you.
As a matter of fact nobody did ask you.
I hate this engadget commenting poo.
I'm sorry, I meant: nobody asked you but I agree with your prediction
In the first sentence there are 2 fors "El Goog's just released Android 1.1 for for its totally unlocked version of the G1."
good job engadget :D
What the hell is "El Goog?"
Som lame attempt to sound cool?
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Why don't you ask Engadget? They said it.
I prefer to be locked into the Apple world. Don't fight it – you'll only feel a pinch...
pinch: 3k/year
new update? I have been using the ADP phone for more than a month by now. I do have access to paid apps and it's true that I never have access to those copy protected apps for the whole time. This is not really something new.
the new part is update 1.1 is out for adp. the by the by part is you still cant do the copy protection. i wonder if simply reimaging to jf for tmob us would let you access the apps, or if its something it recognizes in the hardware.
os of the future?
WebOS?
What we need is an operating system of the past.
CubaOS?
BeOS?
This update is crippled... Latitude has been removed for some unknown/undisclosed reason. Some open platform this is turning out to be.
http://groups.google.com/group/Android-DevPhone-Updating/t/22e15a4d72168915
Latitude is an application on top of Google Maps. If that feature is disabled, it has nothing to do with the Android platform. Just because the OS is an open platform doesn't mean all the apps will be.
Another well thought out update... NOT! Many, many people (myself included) have rooted phones that aren't dev phones, so "Android's hilariously weak-ass copy protection features" are still worthless. All my fellows members at the xda-developers forum are anti-piracy of android software, and aren't going to pirate apps, but it just goes to show you that this is worthless.
How about fixing the shipping price for Dev1 phone, Google?
$264 to ship it to Canada!?!
I'd gladly pay it if it came with a 3G radio that supported 850MHz UMTS, but since it doesn't it just adds insult to injury.
the g1 is to phones as spore was to video games in 2008
Damn you HTC! Release an Android OS phone that can use AT&T's 3G frequencies!
I own one of this but I am sick of this phone...
Android sounded good
looks promising
now I doubt its future - poor execution from Google so far
Re-read the article and it sounds like a 14 year old fanboy. So yeah, totally, like
Apple is the best, omfg