[Q] Whats a good phone to buy used to mess with?

NotSoSiniSter · Apr 23, 2012

The whole programming/android/hacking scene has always intrigued me and I really hope its something that I can really sink into in the coming years. Especially when I go to college. But when you tinker with ****, you break ****, and I'm not about to MOD EDIT over my Galaxy Nexus.

This is why it would be kinda nice to buy a phone off of ebay that I could use to flash roms to, and mess with. But is there any kind of phone that would be best to try and snag a good deal with? Or is it really anything relatively recent will give me what I want?

Thanks.

Ascertion · Apr 23, 2012

The Nexus S 4G can be bought for around $100 on Craigslist/eBay. It's a developer phone and it's actually a decent phone.

eletro · Apr 23, 2012

You could also try htc hd2.

Originally a win mo 6.5 phone. As its quite old model, it should be easy & cheap to get.

It can mod to run wp7/android/meego/ubuntu, and its relatively easy to mod and hard to brick

klin1344 · Apr 23, 2012

Galaxy player 4.0

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bconover93 · Apr 23, 2012

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boosterp · Apr 23, 2012

Thunderbolt. I learned on the Droid 1 but grew on the T-Bolt as it was tougher to root before the dev kit.

0kando0 · Apr 23, 2012

Motorola Atrix

Get a Moto Atrix. Has lots you can do and still has an active developer base. As long as you keep yourself educated tinkering with your Nexus shouldn't be too bad though

Austin Air · Apr 23, 2012

The Evo 4g seems to keep spitting out updates by multiple sources. They also seem to have some of the quickest responses when it comes to help questions. If I was going to start from scratch and learn as I go, I'd go with that one (and they're cheap used too).

josip-k · Apr 23, 2012

Htc hd2.you can do much developing,and develop different softwares.it would be ideal for messing with it.

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Faiz Malkani · Apr 23, 2012

ZTE Blade. Only $50 and awesome dev support

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