Ask HN: which Android devices to get for development?

I would suggest the following:

Android 2.1-2.3 Phone (e.g. HTC Evo) Android 4.0 Phone (usually high def) (Galaxy SIII, Galaxy Nexus, and most other modern Android phones).

Those cover most of your situations as the Android SDK mostly changed after Android 3.0 and 4.0.

I'd buy a basic Nexus 7.

I'm an iOS developer, and next year I'll branch into Android development. I'll probably go with a N7 (and maybe the N4).

Thanks!

I am happy to rent u few devices shoot me a email .

That's very generous but information would be much more valuable at this point :)

What devices do you recommend?