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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. welcome by internerdj · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:welcome by James_Duncan8181 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I for one welcome the return of the 80s standardisation of the PC market via Windows compatibility demands but in a different market. All of China's clone manufacturers can dump 90% of their software development costs and have something that isn't insanely buggy for free that they occasionally do a bit of custom GUI stuff for. Of course that will happen.

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  3. uhh by LockeOnLogic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...then why the hell did you buy one? iPhone isn't made for people who want to tinker, its made for my mom and dad. This is like buying a minivan and then bemoaning that you can't start supercharge it to 400hp.