which t-mobile android phone?

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 20:58 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:43 PM, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
> > Am 16. Mär, 2010 schwätzte Alan Dayley so:
> >
> >> - The Motorola models are "TVO-ized." They check all binaries for a
> >> specific signature.  No signature, the binary will not run.  This
> >> means only official builds of OS can be used on those phones.  In
> >> other words, don't get one from Motorola if you want to change the
> >> software.  I have friends with the Motorola Cliq who love the phone
> >> except that they can only update it via official releases, which are
> >> slow coming.
> >
> > Do you mean the OS is TIVOized or also apps? Android Market is working and
> > supposedly other apps will work as well.
> >
> > Official release from Mot or official android releases?
> 
> Great questions to which I don't know the details.  I have two friends
> who have the Cliq.  Both of them complained that they could not go use
> unofficial builds of the OS and so were behind in the Android version
> they were running.  So, I suppose that means the OS is locked.
> 
> The apps, well, I don't know.  If they are also signed and locked,
> Motorola would have to maintain a separate marketplace, which does not
> seem likely.
> 
> > How would it differ from other Android phones? Does HTC do it different
> > for its branded Android phones?
> 
> As far as I know all the HTC phones can be rooted and have the OS
> replaced entirely, should you want to do so.
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I don't know about the Cliq because I own a Motorola Droid but I KNOW
that the Droid can be rooted and you can easily replace the ROM image
including overclocked kernels, etc.

I saw that they deferred software upgrades on the Cliq which would cause
me a great hesitation as they are still apparently on something like
version 1.5/1.6 and I have 2.1 on my Droid (screw waiting for Verizon to
do the OTA update).

HTC has their own 'Sense' UI software but if you want to use 2.1, there
are images out there and apparently HTC does have a pending update at
some point the next month or so to 2.1 with their Sense UI.

Fundamentally, I don't know of any software implementation differences
between the various brands of Google phones but the hardware obviously
varies and HTC (with their Sense) has modified/different functionality
(subjectively better or worse) but they all can be rooted, custom ROM,
etc.

Craig


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