Android Hacked!

ech0 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 10:54 PM

...to run on real hardware!

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Google told us that we wouldn't see any Android devices until the end of the year, but a funny thing happens when you put up the entire SDK and an emulator for a platform -- all them crazy hackers start hacking. Apparently Android was natively booted on a Freescale-based dev board called the Armadillo 500 back in November, but the floodgates were really opened when a Hungarian group called Eu.Edge discovered that basically any device with an ARMv5TE chip could run Google's baby. Armed (heh!) with that information, tinkerers around the world have gotten a variety of Sharp devices running Android: the SL-C760, C3000M, SL-C3000 series, and the SL-6000 have all been confirmed running the OS. Hopefully that means we'll be seeing a lot more unofficial Android devices soon -- check a couple videos after the break.

If you have watched any of the demo videos of Andriod, its kinda like a like a mix between Apple OS X and Linux, so its pretty snazzy. I wouldn't mind seeing a couple of hacked PSP's with Andriod on it. Imagine that, how sweet it is.

LiNk

DominiKing · #2 (**permalink**) 01-10-2008, 01:06 AM

That's pretty cool, I'd much rather get a Google phone or a phone with Android on it than an iPhone. I'm looking forward to this.

SonicSpeed · #3 (**permalink**) 01-10-2008, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Ech0

.If you have watched any of the demo videos of Andriod, its kinda like a like a mix between Apple OS X and Linux, so its pretty snazzy. I wouldn't mind seeing a couple of hacked PSP's with Andriod on it. Imagine that, how sweet it is.

LiNk

Although the problem is the PSP port would have to be modified to include such things as the memory stick port, UMD Drive, limited amount of buttons etc. Not to mention the PSP isn't running a ARM processor.