I would HIGHLY recommend HTC.. THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL PHONES! One of my phones is the HTC Aria I use for development and my main personal phone.. Great phones. An example.. My wife threw a pair of paints at me as hard as she could (we were playing around she wasn't trying to kill me) but she didn't know my HTC was in my pocket. Well the pants missed me by a mile(probably b/c she is a girl J) and hit the oak bed back.. I heard the phone hit and just assumed the phone was trashed. It hit really hard. The only thing that happened was the case popped off. No cracks. no breaks. Phone still works like it did when it was knew..
I recommend HTC to anyone and everyone until they show me they don't deserve to be recommended. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raghav Sood Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [android-developers] Phone for development Thanks Pepijn. That helps a lot. I'll most probably do with a HTC now. Thanks everyone. On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Pepijn Van Eeckhoudt <[email protected]> wrote: On 27/04/2011 16:12, Raghav Sood wrote: Okay. I'll check that out. Still can someone suggest a reasonably priced android 2.2 or above phone? Thanks Since no one's giving you any advice I'll give it a try ;) The dev phones I use myself are Motorola Milestone XT720, HTC Desire, Samsung Galaxy S and a Google Nexus S; one for each OS revision. I know these are all high-end devices, but I can try to extrapolate my experience with those. Objectively, they're all fairly similar for development purposes. I don't use these phones for anything besides testing so I can't comment on any Android customizations each vendor might have made. Subjectively, I prefer the HTC the most in terms of feel and build quality. HTC seems to do a pretty good with their OS updates as well and they actually use OTA updates rather than requiring some buggy proprietary tool. If you stick with HTC the only model they seem to have in the 230 euro / Rp. 15000 price range is the wildfire. The wildfire is listed in Belgium at 229 euro and the wildfire S at 289 euro. The first one is a Froyo device, the second one Gingerbread. I don't know about the specific Samsung model you mentioned, but the Galaxy and Nexus are pretty good too FWIW. The only downsides to Samsung IMO is that you have to use Kies to perform upgrades which can be a pain and they feel rather flimsy, plasticy. The HTC has a sturdier feel to it. Hope this helps, Pepijn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:android-developers%[email protected]> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Raghav Sood http://www.raghavsood.com/ http://www.androidappcheck.com/ http://www.telstop.tel/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
