Android 2.3 Ported To Nokia N900
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The Nexus One, Google’s first Googlephone, has yet to be updated to Android 2.3 “Gingerbread.” Meanwhile in the world, Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” has been spread to the Nokia N900. Yep, Nokia’s Maemo smartphone/portable computer has been gotten an unofficial port to Android 2.3 courtesy of a modder who goes by the name ‘DrunkDebugger’ (lol).
Alexey Roslyakov, the man behind the DrunkDebugger name, is responsible of the Gingerbread port to the Nokia N900. Android ports to other devices can sometimes be messy, as anybody will know, but he seems to have gotten it to an almost usable state. He’s gotten the cellular data, WiFi and sound working on the device, with the rest still in development.
DrunkDebugger hasn’t released the code yet, but says that a publicly available ‘experimental build’ will come out for the phone by the time the year is up. If that’s too cutting edge for your liking, DrunkDebugger has a much more stable Android 2.2.1 release coming for the Nokia N900 very very soon.
Nokia likely isn’t happy about this. The Finnish phone giant has been the subject of constant speculation regarding a move to the Android operating system. Their defense has been that using Android would make them just another countless Android manufacturer in a sea of them. But, if you’re wondering what Android would be like on Nokia hardware, now you’ve got your chance.
And by the way – the Nokia N900 is one of the most underrated piece of hardware in the last two years, in my opinion. Well, Maemo 5 needed some work, but the hardware was great.
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Wish Nokia would stop being so stubborn and get on the Android Wagon. Android could use Nokia’s muscle and different perspectives. Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to choose wether to develop using the Android SDK vs C++ and Qt4?
If were talking unofficial ports the nexus one, Droid 1, Droid x, Incredible, hd2, and the many phones supported by the XDA community beat the n900 to the punch. Even cyanogen works from source on 2.3. Its missing the camera though due to lack of drivers.
I just went back to the nexus one from the nexus. The thing I miss only is the front can gingerbread was not that big of a difference from froyo. Cell companies have more control over the nexus s than they do with the nexus one that’s y I switched back.
why can’t phone manufacturers offer the same handset model with OS options – Android, Windows, Symbian etc. just like one can install different OS on a computer?