The european counterpard (the Milestone) can be bought quite easily, not only from eBay but new too….I don’t see why that wouldn’t be the case for the Droid?
You can use ‘nearly’ ( I say nearly just in case there are some exceptions that I’m not aware of) any phones for dev, just turn on “allow usb debugging n the settings.
Regarding the motorola droid, it works fine I have one at work and just plugged it in and launched my app.
for further reference, some phones are not recognized in the default settings of the android sdk (the htc legend for exemple), in those cases it is a simple matter of adding a line in your android sdk files (full procedure findable in 30 sec on google).
What do you mean by unlocked? If you mean rooted, then you don’t even need that. My Motorola Droid works straight out of the box. So, short answer: yes.
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The european counterpard (the Milestone) can be bought quite easily, not only from eBay but new too….I don’t see why that wouldn’t be the case for the Droid?
Yes, all you have to do is go under settings => development, and check the box to allow USB debugging.
You can use ‘nearly’ ( I say nearly just in case there are some exceptions that I’m not aware of) any phones for dev, just turn on “allow usb debugging n the settings.
Regarding the motorola droid, it works fine I have one at work and just plugged it in and launched my app.
for further reference, some phones are not recognized in the default settings of the android sdk (the htc legend for exemple), in those cases it is a simple matter of adding a line in your android sdk files (full procedure findable in 30 sec on google).
As far as I know, you can use any Android phone. You just have to enable USB debugging on the device and install the device driver on your computer.
Register for Android Market access in developer.android.com and you can buy the phone from the site.
What do you mean by unlocked? If you mean rooted, then you don’t even need that. My Motorola Droid works straight out of the box. So, short answer: yes.