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HTC Touch Running Android — VIDEO
So earlier today we answered a question whether we would ever see Android on the iPhone and posed a larger question if Android will ever be available on current devices. Well, lo and behold, the community has answered back with a video of Android running on an HTC Touch. From the video, everything looks like it runs fine and dandy and it even has a custom soft keyboard!
Overall, it looks like its a pretty smooth experience but supposedly scaling the UI to QVGA caused some problems and GPS and Bluetooth don’t work quite yet. This is a great start in getting Android in current devices, what’s the next device you want to see?
[Engadget]
Android Can Open Garage Doors Now, WHAT!?
Not only is Android a great open platform that very well may be the future of smartphones. Not only does Android intertwine Google’s Services so well. Android can now open garage doors. I mean it’s an obvious conclusion right? Android and a Garage Door Opener goes about as good as Android and Gmail or Android and the Market.
All jokes aside, Brad Fitzpatrick is the one who hacked Android into doing the simple garage door opening task. The G1 uses Wi-Fi to fire up an HTTP request to his home server which in turn tells the garage door to open. Neat huh? Leave your keys and garage door at home folks, the G1 can do it all. Even better, in true Android fashion Brad released the source code.
What’s next? What task would be ridiculous to see Android and the G1 do?
[Gizmodo]
How To Load Debian Onto Your T-Mobile G1
Whoa. Though Google and T-mobile squashed root access with the RC30 update it didn’t stop people from having fun with it in the few days the G1 was jailbroken. Case in point: Jay Freeman loaded Debian onto the G1. For those who don’t know, Debian Linux is another OS that adheres to openness.
What’s even better than simply loading Debian onto the G1 is that he managed to get Android and Debian to work together. So you can have Android for your phone purposes and Debian for everything else. A great compromise no? To be sure, the process isn’t for the faint of heart so be wary of jumping into this very, very cool hack.
We at Android Central will choose to sit and admire from afar. Don’t say we didn’t warn ya!
