Hackers Get Android Running on Real Hardware 73
nerdyH writes "Google's Android stack for Linux phones has been successfully hacked onto several actual hardware devices, including Linux-based Sharp Zaurus PDAs and a high-end development board. Google's preview release of Android last fall included a software emulator based on Qemu, but you can't beat real target hardware when writing applications for devices, because emulators may not accurately reflect real-world performance. Plus, it appears that Android's modern UI could really breathe some new life into lots of Linux-friendly hardware with ARMv5TE or better cores."
Android stack? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Android stack? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Android stack? (Score:5, Insightful)
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More people use it than want to admit it, themselves.
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But are they aware of that fact?
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Not that Java is perfect - I don't even like it very much - but it does not suck as much as most people imply.
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True that... I grew up as Java was being introduced, it was horrendous. Now not so much, but I still try and avoid it when possible just due to those early high school age experiences.
Whoosh? (Score:2)
No, an Android threesome is not a p2p network.
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Until (Score:2)
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Hatta (162192) agents will be there momentarily to collect your card and your star trek stuff and to change your WoW password and will also change you operating system to Windows Vista. Have a nice day.
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Does someone know is it possible to run android top of other OS like BSD?
Too bad about the QVGA (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Too bad about the QVGA (Score:5, Interesting)
At least the Android simulator can be configured to launch in VGA mode (or any resolution), as well as the default QVGA and HVGA modes. I hope the iPhone dev-kit is as forward-thinking.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/01/iphone-processor-found-620mhz-arm/ [engadget.com]
Of course it's QVGA (Score:4, Insightful)
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I agree that it doesn't make much sense to increase the resolution further for the phones, but when was gadget market ever about sense? One doesn't need 12MP digital cameras either, but here they are...
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Re:Too bad about the QVGA (Score:5, Funny)
That is so true.
I'm writing this on a nokia N95 (seriously, one of our tubes sprung a leak and we only have wifi) and /. really sucks at this resolution. The only thing worse than the eye strain and constant scrolling is typing on the keypad because I am too cheap to buy a bluetooth keyboard.
Predictive text helps a bit but sometimes it gets things so ducking wrong that I am sure the people who program it are a deliberately unhelpful bunch of ducking aunts.
Re:Too bad about the QVGA (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Too bad about the QVGA (Score:5, Insightful)
Apparently, even when shoe-horned into untested hardware, Android has no trouble adapting the UI to the dimensions of the screen that Linux reports. So why are people whining about screen size, and why is it being mod'ed up?
Oblig: Star Trek (Score:4, Funny)
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some-subjects-make-confusing-headlines dept. (Score:4, Funny)
Can /. agree to use "Google Android" or "gAndroid" (Score:1)
Recently I just assume when I see "Android" on Slashdot it's a reference to Google's Android, but the first few times I was tricked.
love the product, hate the name (Score:5, Funny)
Re:love the product, hate the name (Score:4, Funny)
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true variety (Score:2, Interesting)
Windows Mobile replacement (Score:5, Interesting)
Like TFS says, it is great to have something to run on older hardware, especially with the way the phone market works these days trying to get you to do upgrades as often as possible, most of the time unnecessarily. How many don't just want a phone to use as a phone? I know my grandfather wouldn't mind having a special stripped down version of Android with only basic functions and if I can pick up an old used phone that most people think is outdated to run it on that would be perfect.
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Re:Windows Mobile replacement (Score:5, Interesting)
Although I am in Canada, I bought an unlocked HTC Hermes/TyTN (AT&T/Cingular 8525) from eBay. Being a GSM phone, my SIM card from Rogers worked instantly.
Here is to hoping that Google or HTC will provide that, although that would anger HTC's clients (the carriers).
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Put down the glue.
Step away from the glue.
Do not sniff any more glue.
Great feat, wish ... (Score:3, Insightful)
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Technical Re-purpose (Score:5, Interesting)
But I love the idea of taking older form factor cell phones, which are really abandoned tech, and wiping out the older operating environment and replacing it with Android. It's not quite the way the built R2D2 in star wars but it's a step in that direction.
- liberating commodity hardware
- installing commodity software
- creating something interesting and useful.
To Hell with cell phones (Score:4, Funny)
40 acres and a flying car! (Score:2)
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Consider yourself lucky to live in a country where iPhones are available in every retail store. So you are far more near to the future than the 80% of the world.
my next phone (Score:1)
N800 (Score:2)
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No JVM, No Problem (Score:5, Informative)
Maybe the Dalvik VM would be an easier port.
Nokia E61, 62 (Score:2)
It's an excelent phone and it's perfect for that emergency SSH when your laptop batteries are dead, but the PDA side sucks incredibly.
Nokia in general (Score:2)
Likewise the N95! Beautiful hardware and more than capable, but symbian really is a stinking load of horse shiv.
(ducking dictionary)