Comments on: Android Dev Phone 2 (ADP2) Is The Google Ion

By: Interested Developer

Interested Developer — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:48:06 +0000

@Mats: How much did you paid for it? Was it the ADP2?

By: Mats

Mats — Fri, 21 May 2010 07:57:06 +0000

I ordered this phone. It arrived in Sweden in just two days.
It is however very irritating that i paid 188 USD for “tax+VAT”, and it turned out that this money went straight into the pockets of Googles logistic partner Brightstar. Thereby forcing me to pay the same amount again to the “Swedish IRS”.
Very unserious, and close to criminal in my opinion.
I think Google must be more careful how they treat the developers now when Nokia and Intel tries to get developers to use “MeeGo”.

By: masoudsadrikia

masoudsadrikia — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:26:22 +0000

hi plz me

By: Marcel

Marcel — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:47:17 +0000

Aux ? How much is delivery to your country ?

By: Sharky

Sharky — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:46:18 +0000

Anyone know if HTC Magic or T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Roms (like CyanogenMod) will work for this phone?

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:50:02 +0000

@Danno Ferrin, actually W-CDMA is not the same thing as CDMA, and will not work on a CDMA (Sprint, Verizon, what used to be Alltel, and other smaller carriers) network. W-CDMA was created by european companies as an alternative to the USA-only, Qualcomm-owned CDMA technology. The W in W-CDMA stands for “wideband”, which by definition means it requires a different wireless spectrum to operate, thus cannot work on the same spectra that CDMA networks operate on.

It’s a world phone only in the sense that it can be used in virtually any country in the world. That doesn’t mean it has to work on every *carrier* in the world… So, Sprint, Verizon, and other CDMA carriers will not be supported with this phone. This phone requires a SIM card, and CDMA carriers identify phones by their ESN, which is specific to the phone itself and cannot be moved to another device. (that last statement is only partially true… it IS possible to clone an ESN to a different phone, but it’s very risky, and very difficult to do)

By: Juan

Juan — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:47:28 +0000

Comparing this phone with the Google Ion, it seems the latter one has 288MB of RAM and this 192MB.

Does anybody know if 192MB would be enough for running Android 2.0 smooth?

* FYI, getting the phone in Spain (probably similar in other EU countries) is $541.60 ($399 + $142.6 tax/delivery).

By: Terminal58

Terminal58 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:30:40 +0000

This is multi touch compatible according to the screen type
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#Capacitive

I think that another phone is coming soon and they had to get a phone with a greater flash out before they release 2.0

By: Aux

Aux — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:38:04 +0000

Why the hell delivery cost is SO HIGH?

By: John

John — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:57:13 +0000

This phone seems to lack EVDO support, making it useless for Sprint or Verizon customers.

By: chaserhill

chaserhill — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:20:55 +0000

do you think it’s running htc sense?

By: Danno Ferrin

Danno Ferrin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:56:00 +0000

You mean WCDMA 1700/2100 MHz : BC4 and 2100 MHz : BC1? Can’t call it a world phone w/o CDMA, so I think they have you covered.

By: jd

jd — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:01:38 +0000

I wish it ad cdma support then I’d be all over it.

By: jdog

jdog — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:45:28 +0000

Damn that sucks for me I’ve had the Google Ion since June :) I wish they would have made the Dragon their next Dev phone.

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:44:23 +0000

There isn’t enough ram in the G1 to load the OS 2.0 + apps into active memory. A friend at google has a dev G1 running 2.0 but he has to compress and uncompress things as he needs them causing significant battery loss.