an open phone from nokia ?

[Gilad Ben-Yossef]

Hi,

You have been severly misinformed.

All you need to install using USB is the free as in speech Google SDK and
USB cable that comes with the phone.

Adb is running on all phones and you don't need to be root to install
applications.

More important, you can install application by simply downloading an .apk
file with the built in browser, assuming you check one checkbox in the GUI
settings for security purposes.

And last, Google does not validate apps in the market and the developer fee
is one time 25$. Not exactly a big barrierr.

In other words: what you're talking about, Willis^H^HShahar?

Gilad

Shachar Shemesh wrote:

 I am much more worried about Android's lack of friendliness to third party
applications (unless they come through the Market) than I am about the fact
it is running a non-standard environment.

What do you mean by "Android's lack of friendliness to third party
applications (unless they come through the Market)"?

I mean that anyone can develop for the android, but if you actually want to
install something on the actual phone, you are up to the mercy of whoever
sold it to you (unless you root it, of course, in which case even the iPhone
is open).

I am not sure what is required to be able to do "adb install" from a PC, but
it certainly requires that adb be running, possibly also requires root.
Without that, if it's not in the Market (approved by Google, pending a
yearly fee), it doesn't exist.

Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.http://www.lingnu.com
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