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]