Android on TyTN II
Posted on 11 April 2008, at 7:00 pm, by Judie Lipsett
I’m really excited about exploring and learning more about Android, Google’s upcoming OS. So far we have seen it running on various bits of older hardware, but I think this has to be some of the most intriguing yet. XDA Forum has turned their attention to the platform, and managed to hijack a Windows Mobile TYTN II, and in a round-about way they have coerced it to run Android.
As Chris Davies of PhoneMag said, “apparently the TyTN II is basically running Android as an emulation: an .EXE on top of the original Windows Mobile OS. That’s a new approach; previous hacks to get the software working – such as on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet we saw earlier in the week – took advantage of Android’s compatibility with things like OMAP chipsets, which are relatively common among mobile devices, to force the OS to install.”
No, it is not working perfectly, and there are all sorts of issues, but you it does make me wonder…
If there were a way to load Android onto any PDA phone hardware and have perfect functionality of all features, which would you choose?
I would want to try it on the HTC Universal hardware, because that had to be one of my all-time favorite handheld designs…bar none. What about you?
Source: BGR via PhoneMag
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