HTC Hero Android smartphone - The Register

Review HTC is currently balancing its prodigious smart phone output between its long-established Windows Mobile series of handsets and those running Google's Android operating system. The Hero follows the G1 and the Magic in HTC's Android line-up and comes with a fistful of updates. These include a new user interface, multi-touch screen, 5Mp camera and enhanced social networking functions, as well as the usual Wi-Fi, A-GPS and the ever-growing Android Market app store.

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Run Android on your pc only 100 mb

An enterprising group of hackers have ripped apart Google's operating system and posted an x86 version that'll run on your desktop computer, so you can try out the open-source OS without buying a G1 or HTC Magic.


















It's only just hit version 0.2, so relatively few video and network card drivers are working at the moment, but the team asks you to contact them if yours doesn't function, so they can add support. At the moment, it's very similar to the phone version, Cupcake 1.5, but the makers say they want it to be a "real OS" in the future.

If you fancy giving it a try, all you need to do is download an ISO file, burn it to a CD and then boot your PC from that CD. It'll work in a virtualization application too, like VirtualBox or Microsoft Virtual PC, if you want to try it without a reboot.

Thanks Matze