[Noisebridge-discuss] Android rooting resources?

[Ryan Rawson]

If you are on tmobile and buy the phone outright you can get their
unsubsidized rate.  That discount is worth about $20/month.  So a
subsidized smart phone is around $200, plus a $80/month plan over 2
years.  If you buy the phone for around $500, your monthly is now $60
instead, and you save $480 on the plan over 2 years.  The subsidy is
worth around $300 so you are actually saving $180 over 2 years.  Yes
inflation messes this up a bit :-)

I have the n1 and I unlocked it, HTC will honor the hardware warranty.
 I am running CM right now, and it is great.

Most of the other phone roots involve model specific flaws.  Since you
can always force a downgrade, if there was even just 1 rom with a hole
in it the phone is rootable.  I did this to my older G1.

However the N1 supports loading your own roms into any of the multiple
firmware spaces without hacking.  It's pretty cool, but the phone is
rapidly becoming obsolete and I dont think we'll see another phone
like it in a long time sadly.

-ryan

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:07 PM,
<travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org> wrote:
> Nexus One, though not commercially available, is said to be a
> crud-free phone.  The developer models come unjailed and unlocked.
> You supposedly can get them from Google at their Android developer
> meetings sometimes, and employees might be able to obtain them.
>
> It may be intimidating to pay $500 for a phone, but it's a small
> difference over the subsidized price ($200) compared to the cellular
> plan for a year, not to mention the life of the phone.
>
> If you have an older iPhone, you probably have the unlimited data
> plan, and can move the SIM card to another AT&T phone like the HTC
> Captivate (when it comes out) without informing AT&T, and do all the
> tethering you want.
>
> Note that the Android actually acts as a WiFi AP (hot spot) that
> gateways to the 3G/4G/whatever network, so "tethering" is a bit of a
> misnomer - there's no cables involved.  You basically get Internet
> access for every WiFi device in range.
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