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Get Android running on your HTC Touch

10 December 2008 by Staff Editor


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I’m sure all of you are as eager to see Android get ported to other handsets as we are. So far we have not seen to much work as far as running Android on new handsets, but that has just changed. We have all seen the videos of Android running on the HTC Touch, but how did they do it?

For all of you who are fans of the new HTC Touch one user has just come up with a way to run Android on the vastly popular device. From what we can see it works pretty well, custom on-screen keyboard and all. Right now there are still some issues scaling the UI to QVGA and the GPS, Bluetooth and USB still do not work.

Anyone with an HTC Touch can give it a try. Think of it as a port, this will not mess up your handset or completely kick any of your settings. Just reset your device to bring back Windows Mobile. For those willing to try, the instructions can be found here. Now given the instructions who is going to take the plunge?

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  1. Was a touch owner before jumping ships to T-Mobile and the G1 and had been running this for a while. It is all based off the SDK and not running on the open-source code.
  2. Looks cool and all, but why is the resolution like that? All the icons look too big, if that's not adjustable then I think it would be a waste to port that over as it looks goofy the way it is.
  3. Soon enough the IPhone will be running the Android OS, Then the fanboy's will really have something to talk about.
  4. Probably won't be seeing Android running on the iphone that soon, so far I'm only seeing Android running on phones that has similar hardware as the G1(Qualcomm CPU).
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by fellonblackdays View Post
    Looks cool and all, but why is the resolution like that? All the icons look too big, if that's not adjustable then I think it would be a waste to port that over as it looks goofy the way it is.
    Could has something to do with the screen resolution of the HTC Touch, its 240 x 320, and the G1 is 320x480.
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