Android on a Nokia N95 captured on video

by Joshua Topolsky, posted Jun 18th 2008 at 9:22AM

We don't know too much about the clip you're about to watch, but we can tell you this: someone has apparently gone and gotten Android up and running on a Nokia N95, and they've captured it on the lowest quality video we've ever seen. It's unclear whether this is natively installed or not, but it seems to be getting data (as you can see Google Maps doing its thing). The dialer is also brought up and appears to make a call -- but it's pretty hard to know if that's just a demo of the app or if this guy actually has a semi-functional Android device. Check the video after the break and judge for yourself.

[Thanks, John]

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, Android

Tags: google, hack, linux, n95, os, video

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Roger Nolan @ Jun 18th 2008 11:38AM

Always too easy to read too much into these things but the map starts up with Ukraine as the default location and the text is in Russian.

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Atanas Boev @ Jun 19th 2008 4:24PM

Actually, it' bulgarian, but thats close enought for all Rambo movies :)

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momchil karabulev @ Jun 18th 2008 7:05PM

that's bulgaria over there

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Atanas Boev @ Jun 19th 2008 4:14PM

No maitap :) Is it the daisy team? MMS?

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PEZ @ Jun 18th 2008 11:40PM

Pile of ass video quality. Thanks for wasting my pasta salad time.

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JP @ Jun 19th 2008 12:04AM

Wow, so apparently the N95 can play full screen video showing Android.

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Faroos @ Jun 19th 2008 2:30AM

This seems to be a full-screen video playing on the nokia device.

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cgallaty @ Jun 19th 2008 5:31PM

I would second that.

From the comments:

"and I'm really not sure how exactly Ive ported it, but I'll try to make a tutorial or/and an explanation as soon as i get a conformation from "Google"."

Yup, yah. Woops, I ported Android, how the hell did that happen?

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danny @ Jun 19th 2008 10:09AM

I wouldn't be surprised if this was a total fake. Given the architecture of the N95, it'd be very hard (if not "impossible") to get Android running at any decent speed on this thing. Nevertheless, it's news-worthy. Simply because there's nothing else in the news regarding Android :-/

Release a phone already, Google!

-D
http://androidboards.com

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michaelp @ Jun 19th 2008 11:59AM

Umm it has a 330mhz arm processor. That is faster than nearly all phones out there today. Also, google has the n95 in mind with all apps as google maps etc run great on the n95 and take advantage of native features.

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konceptz @ Jun 21st 2008 4:26PM

@michaelp

the 333mhz on the n95 isn't really all that good. the new nokia phones are all 369mhz+ and the iphone is clocked at 400mhz.

the nice part of the n95 is the dual processors for s60 and phone functions as well as the reasonably powerful graphics chip.

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