To get yourself an unlocked G1 phone, you need to fulfill two requisites – first is to stay in one of the eighteen countries (mentioned below) and second, develop apps for the G1. Google is selling Android Dev Phone 1 which is the SIM as well as hardware unlocked variant of the G1 phone only meant for developers. The device is shipped with a system image that works with Android 1.0 and also enables devs to create custom Android ROMs that works effortlessly with the unlocked bootloader.
The phone is selling for $399 after you’ve enrolled yourself as an Android developer on the Android market website that also demands $25 as a onetime fee. Registered users can then buy the device from their account but not more than one since Google has restricted the sales to be one device per developer account.
The phone is shipping for free across US while it will be charged in remaining 17 countries that includes UK, Germany, Japan, India, Canada, France, Taiwan, Spain, Australia, Singapore, Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Poland, and Hungary.
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