Yeah I'm on 2.6 on an original G1 running cyanogenmod, and it's abysmally slow.<div><br></div><div>Also, my GPS broke when we rooted my phone.</div><div><br></div><div>-K<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 15:23, Joel Jaeggli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joelja@bogus.com">joelja@bogus.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On 9/21/10 3:17 PM, Robert Fletcher wrote:<br>
> I've got a G1 running 2.2 and it is clunky as all get-out.<br>
<br>
</div>Yeah I went back to 2.1 for more or less that reason. still I think that<br>
pretty good for a mobile that arrived in my hands october 2008 to remain<br>
useful and running a fairly modern if unsupported os variant 2 years later.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> About ready<br>
> for an upgrade myself. Google is notorious for giving away phones at<br>
> Google IO worth more than the ticket price. At the last one a friend of<br>
> mine got two phones, including the HTC Evo. He sold the other for $250,<br>
> almost enough to cover the $300 ticket.<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Ryan Rawson <<a href="mailto:ryanobjc@gmail.com">ryanobjc@gmail.com</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ryanobjc@gmail.com">ryanobjc@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> If you are on tmobile and buy the phone outright you can get their<br>
> unsubsidized rate. That discount is worth about $20/month. So a<br>
> subsidized smart phone is around $200, plus a $80/month plan over 2<br>
> years. If you buy the phone for around $500, your monthly is now $60<br>
> instead, and you save $480 on the plan over 2 years. The subsidy is<br>
> worth around $300 so you are actually saving $180 over 2 years. Yes<br>
> inflation messes this up a bit :-)<br>
><br>
> I have the n1 and I unlocked it, HTC will honor the hardware warranty.<br>
> I am running CM right now, and it is great.<br>
><br>
> Most of the other phone roots involve model specific flaws. Since you<br>
> can always force a downgrade, if there was even just 1 rom with a hole<br>
> in it the phone is rootable. I did this to my older G1.<br>
><br>
> However the N1 supports loading your own roms into any of the multiple<br>
> firmware spaces without hacking. It's pretty cool, but the phone is<br>
> rapidly becoming obsolete and I dont think we'll see another phone<br>
> like it in a long time sadly.<br>
><br>
> -ryan<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:07 PM,<br>
> <<a href="mailto:travis%2Bml-noisebridge@subspacefield.org">travis+ml-noisebridge@subspacefield.org</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:travis%252Bml-noisebridge@subspacefield.org">travis%2Bml-noisebridge@subspacefield.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
> > Nexus One, though not commercially available, is said to be a<br>
> > crud-free phone. The developer models come unjailed and unlocked.<br>
> > You supposedly can get them from Google at their Android developer<br>
> > meetings sometimes, and employees might be able to obtain them.<br>
> ><br>
> > It may be intimidating to pay $500 for a phone, but it's a small<br>
> > difference over the subsidized price ($200) compared to the cellular<br>
> > plan for a year, not to mention the life of the phone.<br>
> ><br>
> > If you have an older iPhone, you probably have the unlimited data<br>
> > plan, and can move the SIM card to another AT&T phone like the HTC<br>
> > Captivate (when it comes out) without informing AT&T, and do all the<br>
> > tethering you want.<br>
> ><br>
> > Note that the Android actually acts as a WiFi AP (hot spot) that<br>
> > gateways to the 3G/4G/whatever network, so "tethering" is a bit of a<br>
> > misnomer - there's no cables involved. You basically get Internet<br>
> > access for every WiFi device in range.<br>
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