Comments on: Android 1.6 Video Walk Through

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:48:00 +0000

@Jason,

I understand your frustration. People who are arguing and maybe claiming that Android is Open probably haven’t looked at Android Source Code. This isn’t about Google Apps. There is a lot of binary only stuff in there and no clues about if those are freely distributable or not ?

The deal breaker is Market App – which is closed. You can live without Google Apps, but with no market App, your device is pretty much useless as non-technical people won’t be able to install anything without it. Unless Google opens the Market App or at least provides API to access the Market, Android isn’t Open IMHO.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:42:38 +0000

When is someone from Phandroid going to post about the Donut update?

By: Milind

Milind — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:14:46 +0000

@Android-5
Simple. An open platform is one where no one can send C&D notices. Maemo is an open platform. For me, not just a part of Android, but a part of Google died for me when they sent that C&D.

No need to rehash it out, just that the impact of this is that upgrading to a new version, just became a *lot* harder. Since a custom ROM can’t *distribute* closed apps, you have to now update to a standard ROM and then back it up and them update to custom ROM. All this of course at the risk of putting rooting in some danger.

Android just doesn’t excite me that much anymore. Way to go Google.

By: Cthulhu

Cthulhu — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:42:48 +0000

@Jason: Have a look at Nokia’s N900 (Maemo goodness).

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:35:41 +0000

Apps2SD would be nice….still would love to know if this fits on the G1 though….

By: pecoy

pecoy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:39:23 +0000

i do have tethering on my rooted g1 :)

so now i just want flash on the browser..

By: terry

terry — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:54:23 +0000

tethering is something you will not see with 3g devices, on any network, some dreams just have to die. and no cdma does not have real 3g

By: zer0day

zer0day — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:30:07 +0000

@Rob, background data is background usage of the network, mainly it applies to things like market, checkin, etc. It doesnt affect multi-tasking.

By: magicnz

magicnz — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:00:50 +0000

hi, does anybody know if 1.6 have WPA enterprise support?

By: pecoy

pecoy — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:46:55 +0000

does this have flash in the web browser?

and does it have tethering?

By: jae

jae — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:21:12 +0000

Sucks ass. Cyanogen’s 4.11.1 is much better
=~}

By: brian

brian — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:59:09 +0000

We have to get apps to sd. I am tired of having to clear cache to make room on my phone so it does not lag.

By: Austin

Austin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:16:03 +0000

this is a cyanogen mod you can tell because it says vibrate on answer and that setting is not in the official donut which im running right now

By: Rob Jackson

Rob Jackson — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:14:10 +0000

@IVAN – lol i thought he spoke really fast too but didn’t want to say anything since I already ragged on the jazz.

By: curt

curt — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:57:20 +0000

yea; music was annoying.

I dont see anything here that Im all excited about.

I prefer 1.5 with HTC Sense. Has multitouch and at least partial flash support.