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Originally Posted by Xerxes
This is all pointless until 3.0 and hopefully a new marketplace not reliant on cellular data access.
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Like you, I had always assumed that Android Market permission depended on a device having cellular data access. However, I have just quickly scanned through the Android 2.2 Compatibility Definition document, and that *may* not actually be the case. The 20 page document lists all the requirements for a device to be considered compatible to Android 2.2. Section 8.13 says "Android 2.2 MAY be used on devices that do not include telephony hardware." Things that MUST be included include USB, GPS, Bluetooth, 3 axis compass, accelerometer, 2 megapixel or more camera, wireless data networking (can be WiFi),etc.,etc.. In addition, the device "MUST pass the most recent version of the Android Compatibility Test Suite". The list of MUST have hardware and software requirements is fairly long, and I do not think that that I have seen any of the tablets currently being excluded from the Android Market meeting all of those hardware requirements.
http://static.googleusercontent.com/...id-2.2-cdd.pdf
FWIW, the document for Android 2.1 looks quite similar.