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gottifour
13th January 2008, 10:56 PM
I have seen they are working on this on a few different sites. Does anyone here no anything about it yet? I figure if anyone is going to do it, it woll be someone here..Here is a link of someone doing it on a mda 3.


http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/13/firm-shows-off-functional-android-build-on-ancient-htc-hardware/
thelostsoul
15th January 2008, 04:39 AM
From what I understood of what I read, it's technically not running it on a smartphone. You run a VNC Viewer on your phone (normally, VNC is software used to remotely control your PC), then setup your PC to feed the Android display to your phone.

So what's basically happening is Android runs in an emulator on your PC, but shows up on your phone.

Because of the nature of the VNC, however, this makes for a very slowly system and means you really can't make phone calls using it.
gottifour
15th January 2008, 05:57 AM
Oh...is that what they are doing there? I guess I didn't read closely enough. Thanks for the update. I was hoping to flash my Wizard with some mystical android rom at some point....I know............. I'm dreaming......but it would be cool..
bigflavor
15th January 2008, 06:47 AM
Oh...is that what they are doing there? I guess I didn't read closely enough. Thanks for the update. I was hoping to flash my Wizard with some mystical android rom at some point....I know............. I'm dreaming......but it would be cool..

Agree... it would be cool. In the mean time, if you haven't already, check out PointUI (http://pointui.com/). I expect it to progress into something really sick (it's pretty cool already).
thelostsoul
15th January 2008, 07:32 AM
Oh it'll most likely happen sooner or later...especially considering HTC is planning to release an Android device, which means possibly similar hardware, but it's still too early...
gottifour
15th January 2008, 06:51 PM
Agree... it would be cool. In the mean time, if you haven't already, check out PointUI (http://pointui.com/). I expect it to progress into something really sick (it's pretty cool already).


I'm checking it out as we speak..thanks for the link...


Here is a link to the android sdk....If you haven't checked it out yet you should its kind of cool.

http://code.google.com/android/download.html