Comments on: Installing Android OS on the Nokia N810

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:52:36 +0000

I have to agree with Milind, after installing this on my n810 the wow factor was pretty much extenguished. What you get is essentially five items to toy around with but the web browser works and renders pages crisp – yah… I would like to see an more recent image with cupcake. This install is greta for serving the purpose of showing it can be installed on the n810 but thats all it does. Android could certainly breathe new life into the n810 should a full on flash be available in the future to replace Maemo, or perhaps to dual boot on it from memory card.

By: Milind Rao

Milind Rao — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:41:45 +0000

This is a pretty old code base. Is there a later release (maybe cupcake) that I can use on the N810? The other sites I tried like NitDroid are too complicated. Something simple like this is more up my alley.

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:57:54 +0000

Randy,

The Android platform itself (about 6 months ago) represented a totally open platform for both hackers and vendors to shape and mold anyway they wanted and deploy on Phones, devices, computers, etc. that would *all* support running the same apps… from a commercial sense, it was like a free Windows OS — run everywhere, available to everyone (users and developers).

As the platform has matured it’s gotten pretty nice — there are little enhancements to it as it gets more polished that make it a very nice user experience. The apps aren’t there quite yet, but all the infrastructure (SDKs and market place) are all there to support it as it’s slowly growing.

So in a way, “what’s so cool about Android?” is basically “completely unlimited potential” — that is what has everyone so excited.

I got a chance to play with the Cupcake pre-build of the next release of Android (they are calling it code-name “Cupcake”) and it has a lot of polish in it — I imagine my next year the Android environment will be rediculously fertile.

By: Randy

Randy — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:41:42 +0000

What are some of the advantages to Android at this stage other than bragging rights? If that came out the wrong way I apologize. I would really like to know.

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:06:38 +0000

Leetel,
If you do let us know how it goes and what Android is like… would be cool to see it in action.

If you wanted to do a writeup of your time with it, let us know!

By: Leetel

Leetel — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:24:08 +0000

Thanks. Have to try this on my 800.

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:50:38 +0000

OML, I would check the original ITT Forums post (link) and look for the maintainer of the thread to find more information about the actual folks that discovered it. Also is the Moko hardware compatible with the N810?

By: openmoko liker

openmoko liker — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:30:07 +0000

anyone know who these ‘badasses’ are? Their names..
any idea if this Android image can go onto OpenMoko’s NeoRunner?
http://www.openmoko.com

By: reqqit

reqqit — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:11:15 +0000

Wow… my penis could install this himself on his Nokia.

By: manny

manny — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:13:38 +0000

just 3 steps !!

oh me God, what ever happened to the 24 hour marathon of hacking and tweaking ??!

sadly i don’t have a nokia tablet (yet) to try it