Android OS 現身 HTC TyTN II

我該說 WinMo 的使用者有福了嗎？這個問題還是交給各位來評斷好了，以下！

近來有些勞苦功高的駭機達人在 XDA-Developers 這個論壇當中，發表了他們將 Google Android OS 安裝在 HTC 家智慧型手機上面的小小心得，特別是在 HTC TyTN II 這台智慧型手機上。這對 HTC 的手機使用者（或者說是部份 WinMo 的使用者）來說，意思大概就是說，如果將來發現很想跳槽到 Android 平台，甚至是其他種類的 OS，有可能不需要換手機。

而整件事情最讓人感到驚喜的部份，是他們改機的過程，並沒有用到任何模擬平台，而是把整個 Android OS 直接擺到 TyTN II 上面使用，而且還是把 Android OS 改成 .EXE 檔，給他寫進去記憶體裡頭。

所以這代表如果能將 Android OS 改成 Symbian 的 .SIS 格式甚至是 JAVA 裝置上的 .JAR 就都可以安安穩穩的用嗎？或許還要等這些高手們有時間的時候來幫我們完成這項任務吧！以上為實機操作影片！

[出自 unwired news]

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[kabaism.adbox @ Apr 14th 2008 8:42PM]

有人覺得開機畫面真得很像Cylon鐵罐頭嗎？

[akio @ Apr 14th 2008 10:06PM]

看來那不是安裝
那是用一個bootloader把android linux image開起來
然後直接把android gui shell跑起來

很多週邊看來還需要花點時間
例如GSM Modem、touch panel等等
keyboard看來應該是可以直接用

真正要裝 還是要看看Zaurus或者其他XDA的Hacker的作法才有辦法得知是不是真的有機會把Windows Mobile移的乾乾淨淨，只有Android活著。

那時候M$ windows mobile剩下的就是和桌機的連結了，沒有任何的優勢。Google的service才是重點。

[S.-F. Yang @ Apr 14th 2008 11:05PM]

這篇報導有些錯誤。基本上從影片中可以知道，他們使用了 HaRET 這個工具程式。這個東西『不是』把 " Android OS 改成 .EXE 檔"，HaRET.exe 『不是』Android OS。事實上，HaRET 跟 Android 並沒有直接的關係。

HaRET 的全文是 "Handheld Reverse Engineering Tool"，主要的功能有：
1. 當作 Windows Mobile 平台上的 Linux boot loader (類似以前 Win98 上的 loadlin.exe)
2. 可以用來存取一些 Windows Mobile 裝置的一些硬體資訊。

這個工具的更詳細資訊可以在下面這個網頁看到：
http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HaRET

雖然這篇報導的引用來源裏面就是這樣寫："And what’s more surprising, is that they didn’t only run Android off a virtual emulator, but the whole OS itself, and even installed it on the device memory by turning it into and .EXE file." 不過基本上這樣說是不對的。實際上包含 Android 的 Linux image 應該是在記憶卡上，而不是那個 HaRET.exe。

[FN @ Apr 15th 2008 12:05AM]

為啥我只看到tinypic而已
圖片勒?

[MSpak @ Apr 22nd 2008 1:34AM]

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