Quote: "Thanks! Now that I know 2.3 is the minimum, I will look for it. It will be a test platform only..... "
Check zte skate that is a pretty good and cheap mobile phone.
Its good to have a medium range mobile device as testing hardware,because if it runs well there so will it run good on slower devices and awesome on better devices
The device specs.
4.3 inch screen
800x480 screen resolution
800 mhz cpu
512 mb internal memory
2.3 android gingerbread
The best is that it runs the barebone version of android without the extra junk manufacturers put in to there versions.
I my self are looking to add some extra devices to test my apps on.
Are looking on htc explorer with an 600 mhz cpu and huawei vision with an 1 ghz cpu.
Its good to have various devices to test your apps on as most android users have all kinds of hardware and software setup.
Android is one of the hardest mobile devices to write apps for because of the huge amount of hardware and software setups.