up and running with the android developer phone adp1

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Published by arthur on May 23rd, 2009 in phone, hacking, google, g1, dev phone, android, adp1

droidzA week or so ago, I was in a mountain bike accident and broke my Motorola Razr phone (as well as my collar bone, but that's another story). It turned out to be a great excuse to finally get an Android phone.

Being a curious developer with grand plans for world travel, I purchased the ADP1 developer's version of T-Mobile's G1 through Google. For a small fee ($25) for developer access to the Android Market plus the full price of the phone, I now have a totally unlocked phone with r00t access to the phone's OS.

I will follow up in another post with a brief overview of my initial reactions, the steps I took to use a custom build of Android (JFv1.5, to be precise) and a small collection of links I used to get started. In the meantime, I've gotta take a break from one-handed typing :p

Anonymous on October 20th 2009

I headed down the iPhone route. Haven't gotten an app to market yet. I do have one for personal use that works just the way I need.

Mike Cobb

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