Since Android seems interesting and the Nexus One looks like the best (and openest) option available, I picked one up the other day. I got it from Vodafone in the end, after a failed attempt to get it from a parallel importer. It’s cheaper from Vodafone at this point anyway. I’m using it on 2degrees at the moment and will probably make that jump too.
Vodafone has a new shipment of them in, and these ones don’t seem to they do have the Vodafone-specific firmware that the original lot did: they come with 2.2 (Froyo), FRF91, but still tied to Vodafone. I was all prepared to reflash to the stock firmware but it isn’t necessary any more, which is a plus, (or, alternatively, it is a Vodafone firmware, they’ve just stopped showing it in the version number. I will keep the reflashing in mind for the future then, but for the moment I’m leaving it. Edit 2: I updated it). It still excluded Google Goggles, but that was easily installed from the market. It’s all going well so far but it’ll take a while longer to make a sensible assessment. I hope to get some development done for the platform in a couple of months, which was a lot of the point of the exercise.
And on the subject of cellphones, mostly for my own reference: a database of New Zealand cell tower locations.
One more: NZ Post lets you track parcels via Twitter. That’s pretty neat.
Link dump completed.