Video: Android running on the iPhone

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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Consider my mind blown.

There have been a lot of (poorly) faked videos portraying Android running on the iPhone over the last few years. Lots and lots. Like a ridiculous amount.

This one’s real.

After a hiatus of just shy of a year, well-established iPhone hacker planetbeing has returned with his magnum opus: a mostly functioning build of Android running on an iPhone 2G.

Is it perfect? Not yet. Planetbeing considers it alpha; while the touchscreen seems to function well enough and WiFi is in working order, there’s still plenty of work before it’s really practical to use. Well, if running on Android on an iPhone could ever really be practical.

Just don’t use this to get porn on your iPhone. That would make Steve Jobs sad.

[Via planetbeing on Twitter]

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