1. The Hero has a lock screen.
2. PDANet is available for Android. It has a one-time-only cost of $29.
http://www.junefabrics.com/android/
3. You can "Root" the phone and develop and install any applicatins you want.
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Originally Posted by miamicanes
A few questions...
1) What safeguards does it have (either out of the box, or at least downloadable & existing today a-la-S2U2) to prevent you from accidentally placing calls or triggering input events if you carry the phone in your back pocket? Prior to discovering S2U2, I literally came within minutes of smashing my Touch in rage one night when an incoming missed call turned on the phone in my back pocket, and I ended up making a 47 minute call to my parents' voicemail (it had done other things in the past, that just happened to be the all-time low point of my relationship with the phone).
2) Will it be able to do phone-as-modem with Sprint's full knowledge and blessing? I currently pay Sprint the extra $25/month to get PAM instead of whatever they call their unlimited pda-only data plan this month and only use it occasionally... but when I want it (maybe a few hours per month), it's REALLY nice to have. I don't use it often enough to justify a USB device and second plan, but I've come to regard casual tetherability as non-negotiable requirement. If "Unlimited Everything" means "(except PAM)", is it at least available as an option?
3) Does anyone know what I can do with a developer-edition G1 that I WOULDN'T be able to do with a Sprint Hero (at least, not until someone figures out how to root it)? Specifically, what restrictions will the version of Android shipped with the phone enforce against user-installed apps? One of my pet development projects in the emulator has been a graffiti input method editor (overloading the volume-up button to activate full-screen finger-able graffiti input whenever it's pressed and held > 500ms). Up to now, it hadn't really sunk in that I wouldn't necessarily have carte-blanche access equal to that provided by a developer edition G1 with Sprint's phone, and I'm worried.
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