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.
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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