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Running Google Android On iPhone Clones

Posted by timothy on from the market-penetration dept.

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]."

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  1. And that's not all all over the place by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Google would like to get your personal information all over the place.

  2. Also available under Windows Mobile by derek_farn · · Score: 3, Informative

    Where is the news? Android is also available on the commercially available phones running Windows Mobile, eg HTC Kaiser.

  3. What's with the embedded affiliate link? by Dzimas · · Score: 4, Informative

    For what it's worth, the DealExtreme link in the summary includes an embedded affiliate code. I appreciate informative links as much as the next guy, but this looks like an attempt to cash in on a /. post.

  4. keyboard? by Nate+Fox · · Score: 3, Informative

    the problem with an iphone clone is there's no keyboard. and theres no software keyboard in android yet. once thats added, I'm sure this will happen

  5. They're cheap for a reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most of these phones have a 30 - 60Mhz ARM core with 4-8megs of RAM. No Nucleus based phone is going to run Android anytime soon. The ones that run Windows Mobile might, but they're far from what I'd call cheap.

  6. Re:Shameless plug? by wooby · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually I put in my reseller code as an afterthought: why not? DealExtreme really is the best online clone phone retailer, with pictures and comments on most of the common clone models. And, I happen to have a referral code with them. So what, I'm a starving IT student! 3) Ramen

  7. Asus is going to go Android as well by BlackCreek · · Score: 2, Informative
    Today from engaget: http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/29/asus-said-to-be-launching-android-handset-in-first-half-of-09/

    [Asus' phone] will roll out sometime in the first half of 2009 (we're guessing late first half),

  8. Re:How about just better software? by Kizeh · · Score: 2, Informative

    Indeed. There's no need for dual SIMs, which is why the feature vanished from European phones -- you just put multiple lines on one SIM and let the phone handle it. It's quite commonplace in Finland among my former colleagues. A lot of people at work in the US want to do this, but none of the carriers we've talked to, as a large university, are interested in offering this functionality.

  9. Um, open-source OS kernel, compiler, printing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The kernel source is open. The are funding an open source compiler and an open-source printing system...

  10. Re:welcome by oldhack · · Score: 2, Informative

    Side nitpick. The standard of the 80's were MS-DOS + PC BIOS. I know - look at my handle.

    --
    Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.