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Re: [LUG] Android on iPhone

 

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:02:22 +0100 (BST)
Gordon Henderson wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Grant Sewell wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:11:28 +0100
> > Rob Beard wrote:
> >
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> I saw this on The Register and I thought it was interesting (if not
> >> amusing).  It appears someone has managed to get Android dual
> >> booting alongside the iPhone OS on an iPhone 2G (so an older
> >> version of the iPhone, but still, it's an iPhone).
> >>
> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/22/android_iphone/
> >>
> >> I wonder what Apple things about this? :-)
> >>
> >> Rob
> >
> > That's awesome!  It almost makes me want an iPhone just to do this
> > to it. :D
> 
> Nah - Get a Nokia N900 - you get root access out of the box and it
> runs Debian...
> 
> (And you can run MeeGo on it as well as Maemo, and multitask -
> iPhones only just catching up :)
> 
> Gordon

N900... sounds good.  A little pricey considering I already have a Palm
Pre with root access and plenty of non-Palm software on it.  I'm on the
lookout for some LUNA stuff for Python - LUNA being the 'GUI' that runs
on the Pre and Pixi.

Grant.

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