Running Google Android On iPhone Clones

wooby writes "With the release of Android's source code, we may see iPhone and Nokia clone phones of Chinese origin capable of running Google Android. These phones, often available for less than $200 without a contract, are available on DealExtreme and elsewhere. But the software running on them is universally awful. Is the clone phone market a vast, nascent install-base for Android, and part of Google's end game? According to Google's Dave Bort, 'One of our goals would be, just to get Android all over the place' [YouTube link]."

Comments

welcome

[internerdj]

I for one welcome our new cheap, Google-powered, android overlords.

Re:welcome

[gEvil (beta)]

Thank you sir, may I have another? Gee this Google whip feels the same as the Microsoft one.

But it's not evil! That means it should feel good.

Re:welcome

[Dogtanian]

It's like the 80's except better since the software is open-source and you aren't locked into the whims of the supplier!

And also that Tiffany isn't at #1.

Android is free for some

[Anonymous Coward]

The problem comes when you want to call certain countries, like Italy. Google is working with the nefarious Italians to make their fiefdom a virtual black hole for wireless service. This allows Italians to manufacture their nefarious ices in slave labor camps for cell phone users like you and me. The italians must be stopped and Google must allow us to visit the shoe-shaped Asian country! I have a modems.

Re:Ballad of Android

[girlintraining]

Mount doom.

Re:Consumer Electronics

[0xdeadbeef]

I cringe; personally when I see applications...

SYNTAX ERROR

I love pointing out the errors of people who say things like this: "for consumers who have no sense of style or consistency".