[wellylug] Android: A Better iPhone ?

Sam Vilain sam at vilain.net
Thu Nov 12 14:04:57 NZDT 2009


Bruce Hoult wrote:
>> Well, nothing expect the Droid can run 2.0 right now, because the code isn't
>> released.  However, given that Android is nicely open it is pretty likely that
>> a backport of 2.0 will land for older phones soon.
>>     
>
> What I heard was that they simply don't have sufficient resources
> (RAM, I guess) to run 2.0.
>   

Yep, you can just squeeze it on the G1 apparently, but it's then got no
room to install apps - and as well the slower CPU on the older models
will make for a less than responsive user experience.

Sam



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