[OT] android phone, possible to get a good deal?

[R P Herrold]

On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, Jim March wrote:

> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16875176145
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> To get Android 2.1 you have to spend almost $500:
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> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16875176195
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> Wait just a bit and that should be upgradeable to 2.2?

Not being sold at at New Egg, but I see Archos 7 and 10 
internet tablets, for about $300, running Android 2.2 out of 
the gate, and seemingly well supported as to following new 
releases at Angstrom

I have devices at older Android levels (it is not clear they 
have the processor 'horsepower' and ram to support later 
Android levels, which I imported directly from China) being a 
couple of essentially unsupported, no-name development 
chassis. I will be seeing about building trimmed down 
versions, and loading later Android versions over the mext 
couple weeks, via the Angstrom builder

-- Russ herrold