A rather interesting video has been doing the rounds on YouTube Thursday morning, showing developer David Wong managing to successfully run Google’s Android operating system on an iPhone.
Although Wong notes he had already managed to get a Linux kernel running on the iPhone last year, he says he got distracted from the project and only began focusing on it properly again recently.
Loading up the iPhone in regular mode to prove it’s possible to install Android without disabling the iPhone’s normal functionality, Wong proceeded to run a version of Open iBoot loader, which he’d hacked to enable Android to load.
In about 30 seconds, the video shows Android up and running, which we presume means Flash and all.
Wong’s latest build includes support for Wi-Fi, GSM voice and data, but he admits he is still lacking several drivers.
Wong admits that the port is “slightly buggy” and “not really production quality yet,” but the important thing is that it works, and is “pretty usable.”
Sadly, Wong has only so far been able to make Android run on Apple’s original iPhone, 3G and 3G S will have to wait a while.
To be perfectly honest, while seeing Android running on an iPhone is pretty cool, we’d much rather see Google’s OS running on the iPad. Here’s hoping Wong gets around to it.
Check out the video:
