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Feb 10

Linux for iPhone May Open the Door to Android iPhone



Just imagine that. Google taking the smartphone war directly into Apple territory. Sure, most people would not care about this, but if Google does this—and most probably not even Google directly, but someone else using Android’s codebase—it would really make things interesting.

…Here you have it. Linux running on the iPhone. Yes, it’s only the first port, but it’s the iPhone running the Linux OS, controlled with a USB keyboard running off the iPhone multi-purpose port thanks to the reverser engineering of Apple’s hardware drivers by iPhone Dev Team member planetbeing. And while it is still limited and doen’t have support for many things, this work opens the door to a much more interesting thing than just a character-based terminal: Google’s Android running on the iPhone hardware.
Just imagine that. Google taking the smartphone war directly into Apple territory. Sure, most people would not care about this, but if Google does…

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Feb 10

Android G2 Hands On: Close to Perfection

HTC and Google are getting closer to perfection with the new Android G2, the HTC Magic. Nice finish, great form factor. Check out our video, including the obligatory comparison with Apple’s iPhone, and hands-on impressions…

…The bad news first: Apart from my gripes about the user interface which are still there there is one but. A big BUT, bigger than Ramona’s, the planetary lady with accidental moustache who serves the bocadillos down at one of the fair’s restaurants: The software keyboard. On this first touch, the keyboard felt cramped, probably a result of the screen size, which is smaller than the iPhone’s which is the obvious soft keyboard reference, since it was the first one to implement a finger-touch software keyboard.

In addition to that, there’s an additional user interface problem, this time having to do with perception: Instead of popping up above your finger like in the iPhone so you can clearly see what you pressed the keys appear on the sides. They flash quickly as you press them, and I found it extremely distracting. They said that they put them on the sides not to obstruct the view, but knowing the over-the-key implementation in the iPhone’s software keyboard, it doesn’t make much sense. Furthermore, when you…

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