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It is not clear to me this means anything bad. They also pulled the Spring Nexus S 4G, so it seems to be a CDMA thing (in fact, they said no CDMA phone are dev phones).
So...I think if we wait this out, there will be a fix or explanation in a few days. After that, I will decide whether to not care or be angry.
-Nkk
"Do no evil" they say........Nexus S 4G is now blacklisted as well!
Update 3: As our friends at Phandroid have pointed out, this could be Google’s way of streamlining their “supported” devices. GSM is a more widely adopted option across the global, so limiting their official support to those phones probably makes more sense. This more than likely has nothing to do with updates or anything that should completely ruin your day.
I'm no lawyer, but isn't this a bait and switch? Or maybe not since verizon never advertised it as a "developer phone"?
Thank God for the open source/dev community. If google disowns the LTE Nexus and Verizon starts bloating it up or delaying releases, at least we will have the devs out there to help.
Or has the cdma/lte stuff been completely yanked from the ICS source or something?
If it is not a developer supported phone, the factory images will no longer be published on the Google site. Also Google will furnish Samsung/Verizon with source code, and they will be responsible for testing, customizing, etc. It also means Verizon can add bloatware via an OTA if they desire (and I think we know they do). It will really be no different than any other phone, except it is stock Android. So basically will be the same experience as the OG Droid.
So mad about this right now. Regardless of whether we still get updates or not (and who's to say that we'll get them in a timely manner compared to other builds?)... its about the principle. We were all sold a device with the understanding that it was a google developer phone. That base images would be available for flashing from google & that it would have the full weight and support of google behind it. This was (to many) perhaps the biggest reason of all to go with this device over a competitor.
We will still get updates? I'm sure we will and it probably won't be that big of a deal. But if Google is giving up on this being a dev phone, that means they'll probably stop fighting what VZ wants to do with the phone... meaning we lose the official wallet support fight and who knows whatever other app VZ wants to block us from?
/sigh... very very displeased by everyone involved.
Thank God I run AOKP. I guess more people may decide to unlock/root/flash a custom ROM after this.
I guess I'm not surprised. It IS Verizon...
Hello! This is a quick clarification about support for CDMA devices.
For various technical reasons, recent CDMA Android devices implement core telephony functionality in .apk files provided in binary form by the carriers. To function correctly, these .apk files must be signed by the so-called “platform” key. However, when an individual creates a custom build from the AOSP source code, they don’t use the same signing key as these CDMA flies were signed with.
The result is that these files don’t work properly, and pure AOSP builds running on these devices can’t place calls, access mobile data, and so on. Because we aim to make sure that we are as clear as possible about the degree of support that devices have, we updated the docs over at source.android.com to reflect this reality.
We will still make available as many as possible of the closed-source binaries for these devices, and Nexus devices will continue to have unlockable bootloaders. And, of course, GSM/HSPA+ devices are still supported, as are any other devices we’re able to support. We’ve simply updated the documentation to be clearer about the current extent of CDMA support.
We are of course always working to improve support, and we’ll keep everyone updated as we make improvements. Thanks as always for your interest in AOSP!
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.@jbqueru according to a confidential information Google doesn't want to pay the license fees for vzw 700mhz spectrum