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Google Android hacked to run on Sharp Zaurus
by Brad Linder Jan 10th 2008 at 4:00PM
You may not be able to buy a cellphone running Google's new Android operating system yet, but that doesn't mean you can't run the OS on a mobile device. Google went and released the Android SDK and an emulator in November, and it hasn't taken long for hackers to realize you can load the OS on a variety of devices with ARM processors, including the popular (among Linux hackers anyway) Zaurus line of mini-computers from Sharp.
As you can probably imagine, there aren't many good reasons you'd actually want to run Android on a Sharp Zaurus. Sharp's PDA/computers already run Linux and you can run way more programs on a stock unit than you can run on a hacked model running Android. But if you're an Android developer and you want to see how your applications will look on a real handheld device, this is one way to go about it.
[via Engadget]
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chewie77 said 4:34PM on 1-10-2008
We are nothing short of excited over this. The possibilities are endless when it comes to open source. There are going to be troves of Android phones out there, each one more unique than the next.
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James said 11:30AM on 1-11-2008
What are the chances of this running on a Nokia 770? I have one still sealed in the box that. We Wooted two, opened one, and didn't like them as much as we thought we would. I sold the open one, but nobody wants to buy the sealed one. If I could run Android on it, I might keep it...
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Christopher said 8:21AM on 1-20-2008
What are the odds of andrid running on a Zaurus ZR-5800?
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Brad Linder said 8:23AM on 1-20-2008
Pretty much nil, since the ZR-5800 doesn't run Linux.