On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Marcin Iwiński <marcin.iwinski at gmail.com>wrote:
> sorry for the little off topic but I could not refrain from writing it -
> wouldn't that be sweet to have a decent HTC device (such as touch pro/G1/X1)
> that has full (fully accessed) debian on board with android on top :) I
> still have a hope that such thing will happened one day.
> Wake me up when one of my dreams will become reality ;)
>
Early morning wakeup;
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/sim-hardware-unlocked-android-dev-phone-1-surfaces-for-399/
So, yeah. You can buy a almost completely unlocked G1 (I think except for
the GSM firmware) now, and write your own bootloader etc. or overlap Debian
on top of Android to your heart's content. No word on when they are shipping
outside US & Canada yet though.
John
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