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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. Re:uhh by Cowmonaut · · Score: 0, Troll

    Touch screen aside, how is it any better than the Blackberry or Nokia N95?

    As far as I can tell, the touch screen is the ONLY thing going for the iPhone. The app potential is wasted thanks to their draconian controls.

  2. Re:What's with the embedded affiliate link? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Butbutbut...this is Slashdot! And here we believe that everything should be free! WHy should someone else make money or get other perks when I click a link? It smells of capitalism!

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