Android hacked to run on real hardware

January 09th, 2008 | Category: Gadget Corner

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Google told us that we wouldn’t see any Android devices until the end of the year, but a funny thing happens when you put up the entire SDK and an emulator for a platform — all them crazy hackers start hacking. Apparently Android was natively booted on a Freescale-based dev board called the Armadillo 500 back in November, but the floodgates were really opened when a Hungarian group called Eu.Edge discovered that basically any device with an ARMv5TE chip could run Google’s baby. Armed (heh!) with that data, tinkerers around the world have gotten a variety of Sharp

devices running Android: the SL-C760, C3000M, SL-C3000 series, and the SL-6000 have all been confirmed running the OS. Hopefully that means we’ll be seeing a lot more unofficial Android devices soon — check a couple videos after the break.

Read - Overview of Android hacks
Read - directions on booting the Sharp Zaurus SL-C760
Read - directions on booting the Sharp SL-C3000 series

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Original post by Nilay Patel

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