Android on an iPhone? There's an app for that

Love it!

Just the thought of apple or even better, Steve Jobs having apoplexy over this - I find extremely amusing. Grab it while you can before apple (some how) force a takedown.

Dual boot Jesus phone - gotta love it! I'll be downloading first opportunity I get.

BlueTooth and Tethering?

Can you use it for tethering without having to pay for an over-priced bolt on in addition to your "unlimited" web access?

Will it support the a wider range of bluetooth profiles, especially DUN?

Or perhaps I should just get an Android phone...

DEFCON 1

"Warm up the ICBM's in the bull pen and....set the legal team to kill"

So we are just one step away from Ipad running Linux (LOL).

I suspect that Adobe will be the next to contribute to the effort.

@Laffer

You'll be downloading it as soon as possible to stick it to Jobs huh? Way to show him, sure he'll be livid if he notices I'm sure.

Or..... you could have just not bought an iPhone in the first place if you hate Apple?

Some strange folk out there.

Somewhere...

Steve Jobs is having a Soccer Manager moment, throwing his toys out of the pram and screaming for heads on silver platters.

Yay!

iPhone Tethering in Canada

@Red Bren - a data point from Canada

My iPhone telco of almost-random choice (Rogers, they had the iPhone first) now includes tethering in the data plans. Obviously you still have to pay for the bandwidth consumed, but they no longer care if the bits end up on the iPhone or your laptop.

@AC

Hmm Guess I shouldn't feed the trolls.......... Aww, what the hell........ they look hungry. I will keep this short.

1 - iPhone is the only apple product I have owned and will ever own.

2 - I got the device cos I needed something to go on holiday with that 'kept me in touch' - it was a choice between a netbook or iPhone - I went for portability and hence iPhone.

3 - At the time I was not aware of how dire iTunes was and still is and how much control apple exert over a device they do not own.

I have nothing against the device, it is a fabulous bit of kit (other than a couple of deliberate design flaws). apples world domination plans they can keep and shove it where the sun don't shne.

I'm currently saving my pennies to buy a top end android phone. When I do I will be 'experimenting' with my iPhone, jalbreak, dual boot etc. Failing that, giving it to the wife...........

DMCA?

If Apple doesn't get this strangled via the DMCA it could be the first wedge into opening Apple's overly restrictive platform. We now have precedent for "a user may install whatever operating system they want on their hardware". So Apple may have trouble enforcing their view in all jurisdictions.

Apple makes its money with the hardware but uses the applications and the uniqueness as bait. Android is showing that anything that works on the oh-so-cool jPhone is available elsewhere. Demonstrating this and possibly better performance would be a chink in the armour.

interesting

I think I will be grabbing this as soon as a 3G version becomes available. Too often have I foloowed a tweeted link only to find that it is to something in flash and been unable to see what was interesting.

Use for unsupported iPhones?

So his Jobsiness decided to completely cut off the 2G iPhone, and ban the 3G from having true multitasking ... at least down the official route.

Now you can keep your iPhone updated ... with ANOTHER OS! hahahahaha!

I doubt Apple will be amused by this. It means that their artificially obsoleted iPhones can be actually upgraded and kept everything but obsolete. This hack works only on 'older' iPhones, so whoever wants to run this will buy a used iPhone. Apple doesn't get any cash on used iPhones. Whooops!!!

Upgrade

Nice little upgrade there.

Multi-tasking TICK

Flash TICK

Open Store TICK

Open Music TICK

Better Bluetooth Connectivity TICK

Free Maps/TurnByTurn Nav TICK

No limits on the size of data (the only limit is the size of your SD Card) TICK

The list is endless Android (at least in it's 2.0+ incarnations) is miles better than anything the iTards have.

Jailbreak

The article doesn't mention it but I assume that the phone requires jailbreaking to do this? If so I doubt there is much His Steveness can do about it.

good news.

No you can have something that looks like a jesus phone and doesn't need to make love to iTunes every 5 mins.

(I loved my iPhone but hated iTunes - why is it a 'smart' phone when you need to talk to a computer to put any music on it)

Pointless

If you bought an iPhone, you bought it because you wanted an iPhone. Thinking of putting Android on your iPhone? Why the hell didn't you buy an Android phone then?

Nice

I guess I know what I'll be doing to my IPod touch - never use it as it is.

Next step installing XMonad, mplayer and vim FTW :)

Interesting

The CPU in that generation of iPhone is underclocked so it's slower than a Hero but if reset back to its original speed it would be more along the lines of a Legend. Combine that with a larger amount of flash (that can actually be used for installing apps, one thing that annoys me about androids) and there could be the makings of a nice littel android phone.

My only concern is the lack of a "back" hard key, would this cause problems for day to day use I wonder?

Either way, I'm sticking with HTC, I love their Sense UI :-)

Great for the geeks that found out too late...

... that the iPhone is NOT a geek toy. When it came out, it was the first of its kind and had a whole stack of features that no comparable device had. It was like a new flavour of ramen, every geek had to have one in order to hold up his head at sodium parties.

About six months later the realisation started to set in - first of all, a lot of non-geeks have them, which diminishes its status as a geek toy to start with. And then, the development tools are actually fairly limited. We can't do low level operations on the hardware for best performance, we have to use this J-J->throws up<-Java stuff. Java is not a geek-friendly language. Most good geeks are allergic to it, to a greater or lesser extent.

So what I'm trying to say is, those geeks that were snared by the geekness of the iPhone when it was new and are now trying their best to keep them out of sight until the contract finishes, now have a new option. Get a true geek OS on your existing hardware and have the added geek cred of using alpha code for everyday use.

Boot Camp for iPhone?

Apple actively supports Windows on Mac hardware, so why not Android on iPhone?

Now what we need is a pointy clicky wipe, unlock and install Adroid. Sweet, because I, personally, am a bit bored with my iPhone now. Don't get me wrong, it is an amazing device, I just bore easily ;-)

There is a growing number of 'obsolete' iPhones out there (iPhone OS 4 doesn't work properly on 3G, which has to be the most popular model), so an alternate OS would be a breath of fresh air.

LETS HOPE THE SLOW ISN'T NORMAL!

God I hope no one else misses the fact that its so slow that it may speak volumes for Android OS in all the phones out there in general!

If the Apple OS on the phone is able to as efficiently run the device with the limited hardware and still give a highly tuned and smooth user interface experience, it shows badly for Android in general as an operating system that is inefficiently designed or programmed or both! And severely lacks any polish or attention to the details that are important to actual users and not tech head number freaks.