It can be run on Android phones. There are none out yet. It's an open source operating system, made available for any company that makes phones. They have a minimal hardware requirement list to achieve, then they can sell that phone with this as its operating system rather than one of the close source ones. You don't get to install it on a phone you bought. It would be factory installed. The idea is that like windows, it would become a standard, so that applications can be written once, and run on many phones, so long as they are all android phones.
Think of all existing phones as being macs, altairs, radio shacks, etc, and android as being windows. I expect there are some smart phones out there currently that support the android hardware requirement, and also allow rom flash upgrades, and thus an android install could be done, if the manufacturer of the phone bundled up a version of android complete with the drivers for their hardware as a flash upgrade. Hackers might do this, end users would not. On Apr 4, 12:20 pm, tony_s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should I assume that this only works on smart phones? > > Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
