Android Dev Phones get early shot at Cupcake

While mere mortals will most likely have to wait until May to get at Cupcake (probably even stooping so low as to refer to it as Android 1.5, those commoners), the proud, good-looking possessors of Android Dev Phones can get at the update right this instant from HTC's website. Naturally, we'd assume somebody's going to figure out how to get these images onto rooted G1s before long, but we wouldn't want to over estimate the intelligence or temerity of the proletariat.

[Via Talk Android]

[NaJaKwa Posted Apr 27th 2009 12:41PM]

That we both may be a burden on the state, this thought above all others keeps me from sleep this night.

[AM ERROR Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:02PM]

Is this the iPhone killer?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 12:51PM]

The stupid audience of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (it's on now) just picked "Viper" as the smartphone OS from Google. Android came in third...

[Ermal Turkeshi Posted Apr 27th 2009 12:52PM]

Trying it right now. Albania

[wcanyon Posted Apr 27th 2009 12:52PM]

"the intelligence or temerity of the proletariat." -- over-educated blogger alert!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 12:57PM]

I liked the post. Both informative and educational.

Better than ending with: SOOO COOOOL!!!!!! WHAT U THINK???

[ArhcAngel Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:02PM]

""the intelligence or temerity of the proletariat." -- over-educated blogger alert!" -- Under educated blogger alert!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 12:54PM]

Yeah it's already up on the rooted phones. JesusFreke said on his blog that he's working on a new image.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 12:54PM]

My Precious! O my Precious!

I shall trade the venison for thee.

[Anthony909 Posted Apr 27th 2009 12:56PM]

cupcake vs 3.0

fight fight fight

[flanders Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:05PM]

Don't get me wrong, I'm going to love the new features in cupcake, but there will still be something important still missing. Something that will really upset the iSnob elite, Flash! It would be so wonderful to shove that in their I bought an iPhone to get attention, my farts don't smell, Prius driving, art collecting, wine drinking, strange ikea furniture buying, loft dwelling faces! Did I forget anything?

[iDavey Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:12PM]

Iono...what major things does one have over the other?

[Anthony909 Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:14PM]

3.0 over 20,000 apps

cupcake < 1000 apps

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:17PM]

FYI, flash is on its way to android

[Twanzio Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:19PM]

When you consider that 19,000 of those apps are various versions of Flashlights and iFart, Android and the iPhone end up even.

[d889 Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:27PM]

@anthony

ever hear of QUALITY over quantity?

[Anthony909 Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:29PM]

@d889

Yes of course, thats why i own the iPhone, its top quality, im glad u agree =)

[iDavey Posted Apr 27th 2009 2:04PM]

Uh...when did iPhone come out...when did Android come out??

Uh, can we get a more substantial argument.
As in...what can the iPhone do that Android cant? Vice-versa

[flanders Posted Apr 27th 2009 2:05PM]

Honestly, would the iPhone be as good as it is without google software like google maps?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 3:51PM]

@iDavy
exactly! That's the same argument I make when people tell me the iPhone has more apps.
It's also two years older! Geez folks, give it some time. The G1 will get there.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 28th 2009 10:05AM]

Honestly I got over the need for flash, or really any other app, after I started using my Android as a L4D server. Everything else is child's play.

[Cesar Cardoso Posted Apr 27th 2009 12:59PM]

So T-Mobile USA can move up their a**** and release a 1.5 image in May, like their German counterparts/owners?

[wcanyon Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:01PM]

But if he had said "cool, what do you guys think?" I wouldn't have been able to make fun of him. You gotta think about my needs here more.

[wcanyon Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:02PM]

This comment system is so broken.

[Greg F Posted Apr 27th 2009 4:29PM]

Actually, I suspect that 90% of the time it's the browser (or dare I say the user) that's having issues.

[wcanyon Posted Apr 27th 2009 4:32PM]

I don't have these problems with the comment system anywhere else (huffpost, pharyngula, others) but on weblogs inc blogs? Yep. Same issue on Engadget.

Also, I had to post this comment three times. I'm using FF3.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:09PM]

Cupcake rocks. We need flash on the G1 already.

[flanders Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:12PM]

Please refer to my previous rant.

[iDavey Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:10PM]

You my good man/woman...
Are a moron.

[Chefgon Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:10PM]

Good luck finding support on that one, buddy.

[iDavey Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:10PM]

I want Skyfire for Android....

[Taylor Yes Taylor Posted Apr 27th 2009 6:32PM]

That makes 1 of us!
-Taylor

[MarcusMaximus Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:10PM]

The guys at xda-developers already got this working on rooted G1's. It actually just installs perfectly as-is since JF's builds(and thus all the ones on xda-developers since they all built off his) have the same keys as the dev phone.

[Dr Spaceman Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:17PM]

Waiting on the Android Dev 2/HTC Magic.

[JOBN Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:21PM]

Thanks for the news i'll have to check it out!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:35PM]

If anybody's IM shortcut isn't working anymore, they renamed the application to Google Talk, look in your application Menu.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:36PM]

ive been waiting for this for so long that i cant even get excited again even if we are getting it in may, to many fake dates

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:39PM]

Overated!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:39PM]

Does anyone know if Google has plans to offer the HTC Magic as a dev phone?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:45PM]

How is it that iPhone has smoked google in regards to software development
34000 + apps compared to android handful,?

[iDavey Posted Apr 27th 2009 2:07PM]

App Store: 2006???
Market: 2008???

The current year: 2009....

Oh yea...
And uh, according to statistics, Android users download more than iPhone users...
*shrugs*

I really dont care about apps statistics...
Give me OS capability statistics, something that matters

[jakey Posted Apr 27th 2009 4:27PM]

@iDavey
Actually the app store for the iPhone launched in June 2008, while the app market for android launched in October 2008.

The big difference was the App store launched with a huge install base & paid apps, while the App Market launched with no install base & only had paid apps in February this year.

Kind of sad Who Wants to Be a Millionaire audience can't even tell the Google OS was Android. Kind of shows the advertising is lacking and it'll take more phones and carriers to bring Android out.

I say it'll take until next year to get a decent sized Android install base, since most new Android phones are coming out this year.

We'll see I guess.

Too bad Android doesn't have an online browser for their apps, so I can't judge quality. But from what I hear the quality is around the same as for the iPhone, mostly because there has been too many crap apps on the iPhone just out to make a quick buck, which evens it out, even with the iPhone having so many more apps.

[iDavey Posted Apr 27th 2009 6:46PM]

Oh, my mistake.
Gracious enough to admit that.

But as I said, I'm not really into all the apps, LOL
So I thought it was open when the iPhone launched.

But 1 million in the US alone is pretty good...especially on the smallest network, and practically no 3G anywhere...LOL
So its doing good. And most people just know it by G1 or "the Google phone".
Not too many know the actual underlying thing...same as most normal people would just say the iPhone...and only mention Mac OS X because of the Apple relation.

[eleminop Posted Apr 27th 2009 1:57PM]

guess engadget has never heard of xda developers, theylve had this out for a couple weeks now.

[Tiger72 Posted Apr 27th 2009 2:12PM]

There's a big difference between a hacked-from-Magic-to-G1 pre-release somewhat buggy Android build from Haykuro, and an official built-for-Dream handsets build from HTC.

Notably, stability and speed.

[MarcusMaximus Posted Apr 27th 2009 3:36PM]

@reuthermonkey1: although, if you change that statement to "hours" instead of "weeks" then it still works for this current build. They got it working on the G1 a couple hours before this post.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 3:07PM]

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[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 4:06PM]

MMMH this cupcake is delicious. It is like i have a brand new phone. You don't need a Dev to flash this. Having some root helps though I believe.

[dhw Posted Apr 27th 2009 4:19PM]

Cupcake + one of those overclocker apps on the market makes the g1 fly like the wind. :-)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 4:25PM]

Cupcake hasnt been hacked onto the G1 yet? That's odd, as i've been able to run it on my HTC touch for over a week now.