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Android Is Live On Internet Tablets
Leave it to the crew over at InternetTabletTalk.com to hack together a legitimate way to install Android on the Nokia Internet Tablets. Android is Google’s open source operating system for mobile devices, and has been in the works for several months now, with first devices rumored to launch towards the end of 2009.
Since we’ve already gotten a handful of other OS to boot up on the Nokia Internet Tablets, a few folks decided that it would be cool to have Android, as well, and so, well, they did. There’s a detailed set of instructions available here, for the brave (or those who have a spare Internet Tablet laying around).
Jonathan Greene of MaemoApps.com just performed the installation this evening, posting updates on this Jaiku thread. It seems to work fine, though he’s unable to type some characters, requiring a bluetooth keyboard for certain character inputs.
I’ll be giving this a go on either the N800 or N810 soon, and will report back as quickly as possible.
Works like a charm and very easy to install. it doesn’t do a whole lot as of now, but it does look very promising.
I flashed my N810 to Diablo to make a clean start.
Then I downloaded “android.img.bz2″ and “android-installer.deb” to my clean device. When I try to install “android-installer.deb” it just says “Unable to install android-installer”.
What am I doing wrong?
The thing is that the latest SDK (M5) userspace doesn’t run on the tablet yet, just the kernel. The M3 UI is the first one they showed and not the final with all cool stuff.
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