iPhone > Android conversion Ping!
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Posted on 04/25/2010 6:36:25 PM PDT by dangerdoc
Last week, planetbeing claimed he'd ported Android to the iPhone. This week, Android A Lot says you can, too. If you've got an original iPhone 2G handy, there's now a 68-step guide that can walk you through the entire process. In a nutshell, you'll use iPhone Explorer to copy over the Android files, then turn your Mac or PC into an Ubuntu virtual machine to install the OpeniBoot software. When you're done, you'll probably have a dual-booting iPhone that can swap between iPhone OS and an experimental version of Android 1.6 at startup, but don't quote us on that -- we haven't had a chance to test the unholy matrimony for ourselves. We're going to try to give this a shot next week, and we'll report back from the other side... if there is another side. Blurry video walkthrough after the break, useful step-by-step text at our source link.
68 steps? what if you screw up on step 34?
Somebody will wrap it all up in an install program.
With some of the threads fighting over Android vs. iPhone, the article made me laugh. Cats and dogs sleeping together, it’s the end of the world!
just wait for the first class action suit when apple refuses to honor its hardware warrenty.
It’s a 2g phone. I doubt that any of them are still under warranty.
If you want to see a fuss, imagine if it were the other way around. iDroid? Frankenpod?
Yup. Android (a spyware associated with Fed agencies) being installed on a poprietary application that rejects Flash.
I thought you might enjoy the irony.
I think I’ve seen you post regarding Android, I thought you might get a chuckle too.
???
can you even BUY the iphone OS?
would apple honor the iphone OS on an HTC phone?
I don’t think you can just buy Android either. It’s free, but I think there are restrictions on the license that this would violate, maybe. There are various Android ROMs available and I know that Google has put out at least one cease and desist.
I took benadryl about an hour ago and I think I’m getting fuzzy.
Google put out a cease and desist against a person that was putting out their own version of the Android ROM.
Here’s something for you Swordmaker ... :-)
just wait for the first class action suit when apple refuses to honor its hardware warrenty.
Apple has already gone through all this before with the hacking and cracking of the iPhone that has been going on for a while, and with others putting hacked apps on the iPhone. It's going to be the exact same thing here, too... no different.
Apple won't do anything to anyone who does that on their own phone... that's no big deal. Just don't expect Apple to help you out when it all "goes south" and your phone doesn't work anymore ... LOL ...
Once you enter the "hacking and cracking realm" -- well then, just be a good hacker... that's all ... :-)
The bottom line on this one is that the vast and overwhelming majority of people won't hack their iPhones, because they don't want to make them vulnerable to other malicious hackers (which can happen as a result) and they don't want to find themselves with a phone that doesn't work -- or no help when something goes wrong ...
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Yep, exactly ... LOL ...
That's why the vast and overwhelming majority of people won't go anywhere near the hacking and cracking of their iPhone.
Face it, the vast majority of the people who bought their iPhones like their iPhones... :-)
Androstoned?
I’m posting this from a MacBook Pro running Win 7. It has Ubuntu 9.10 on a third partition. ;-)
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