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Can I install a custom IOS or Android ROM on the hardware?

Yes, Android and Linux both, and a jailbroken iOS version is custom, just not as customized as you can make a Linux kernel.

... Well it appears you cant do whatever you want. Don't mistake the pitiful increase in rights "jailbreaking" an Iphone gives you for freedom, you are still bound to Apple. With Jailbreaking you're breaking out of your cell, but you're still inside the prison walls.

Apparently, I'm out of the cell, the walls, and even the grounds.

Sure you can. Sorry to burst your bubble of Apple hate.

Got anything newer than the Iphone 3G. Apple locked the bootloader with the second revision of the 3G. So if you've got a 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S or 5, I'm 100% correct.

Wrong again - iDroid runs on 3G/3GS and work is in progress on the 4. Check the links. Or here, for the truly lazy

Thank you, It's nice to receive 3 consecutive "I was wrong" awards.

FTFY

Jelly Bean? I can't even run full ICS! Samsung is closed-source on all the drivers for my "open" Android phone. You can install ICS, but you get no video acceleration or camera - and other quirks like the face sensor and the accelerometers not working properly (or at all). It's a fun geek toy, but honestly you could load not-quite-functioning Android even on the iPhone. (To be fair, that project seems to have stalled recently.)

Funnily enough, you can actually install Android on your iPhone without too much trouble. It even works alright, by the sound of it.

Those aren't locked either. Install iPhone Linux or iDroid. Apple doesn't care if you load another OS on their hardware, they get paid either way.

Then why does the iDroid wiki page say it's waiting for a boot exploit for the iPhone 4S and the newer iPads? The bootloader is obviously locked.

http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Status

>they get paid either way.

They lose on app store and iTunes purchases.

http://www.idroidproject.org/

and now i have to say something useless here because ./ wants me to ..

Yes, I tend to agree with that. Once the 1st gen iPad gets practically obsolete, maybe installing Android through OpeniBoot will be a viable option.

Do you mean the iDroid Project? As far as I know it doesn't even work on most iphones. You can check the progress here.

Do you mean the iDroid Project? As far as I know it doesn't even work on most iphones. You can check the progress here.

What do you mean? Both machines are truing complete. iOS has the same software libraries as MacOS with modified drivers and user interface.

The only reason they can't be a generic device is the DRM apple shoves down your throat.

Considering that it's possible to run the Linux kernel on the devices, allowing you to run any OS based on the Linux kernel inluding Android, I don't see who you can't say it's not a generic PC. It may not be a traditional PC, but the hardware is that of a generic PC as it can run any algorithm (constrained only be time and it's memory) and it can run the actual software libraries, OS's and application that generic PC's do (Perhaps not as fast, but certainly within reason)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yO2KQHkt4A http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/OpeniBoot http://blogs.computerworld.com/17345/forget_samsungs_tab_run_android_on_your_ipad

Simple, install iDroid and forget iOS :)

http://www.idroidproject.org/

Except that is Android does run on iOS hardware, good point.

http://www.idroidproject.org/