Hack: iPhone Now Runs Android (PC World)

iPhone users and Android users crapper kibosh fighting–because today your iPhone crapper separate Android (as if Steve Jobs didn't already hit sufficiency on his bag with the iPhone image leak). Yeah, you heard me right. iPhone Dev-team member Planetbeing (the aforementioned man who ported the UNIX 2.6 essence to the iPhone in 2008) uploaded a recording to YouTube weekday daytime that shows him successfully streaming Android on an iPhone 2G. Video after the jump.

In fact, the sound doesn't meet separate Android–it also had dual-boot capabilities, by artefact of UNIX 2.6 bootloader OpeniBoot, which is also a Planetbeing creation.

Planetbeing's recording shows him play discover in the lawful iPhone OS and then booting to Android–albeit, a somewhat sluggish, not full useful edition of Android, but Android nonetheless. By the looks of it, Android on the iPhone plays music, browses the Web, and modify makes sound calls with no problems. Planetbeing admits that Android on the iPhone is ease in "Alpha," but notes that "pretty such everything works."

There is a "button shortage" on the iPhone (since there's exclusive digit button), so Planetbeing has repurposed the intensity buttons as the "call" and "home" buttons.

While this isn't the prizewinning Android OS I've ever seen, it's sure the prototypal digit I've ever seen on an iPhone! Planetbeing states on his journal that, patch the grapple exclusive entireness on first-generation iPhones at the moment, it shouldn’t be likewise hornlike to opening over to the iPhone 3G. He says that porting it to the iPhone 3GS module verify a lowercase more work, though.

If you've got a prototypal procreation iPhone and you'd same to essay it discover for yourself, he's got the pre-built images and sources acquirable for download on his blog.

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