I am sorely disappointed with the way Android has been released. I have not been waiting around for the G1; I have been waiting around for Android. It's still a long way from a stable port to the HTC Diamond/Raphael. I thought that Google were going to release the code with support for getting it onto devices that already existed. It seems that they'll only be working with established firms to release new phones with Android pre-loaded. I can can only hope that they have some sort of exclusivity deal with T-Mobile and the G1 or that they are working on a ton of devices right now and that soon enough they will start releasing ready to install versions to d/l and install straight onto devices. Until then I'll have to patiently wait for the developers to make a homebrew version that I can install and hope that it runs well. I don't want a G1. I want to buy whatever handset suits me and then install Android. I thought that was the whole freakin' point?
The only reason I can see for them going with pre-loaded only is that they might not want people to badly install glitchy versions of Android onto poorly suited devices and then have people blame the OS for it's shortcomings.
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