Palm Treo 650 boots into Android, lives a fulfilling life (video)

It may be half a decade old, but don't lie -- you still whip your Treo 650 out from time to time, toss on some jean shorts and pretend that the size of your stub is synonymous with the big times. If we just rung your bell, you owe it to yourself to have a peek at the video past the break. There are no step-by-step instructions to accompany it (they're out there, trust us), but man, you can just see the life seeping back into it as the code scrolls down and Android grows seconds closer to booting. It's glorious, really.

[Thanks, Andrew]

[akaKJB Posted Dec 31st 2009 7:40PM]

I like the idea of being able to drag out my old smartphones, slap them ANDROID and get more use out of them. It's interesting to see it running on a non-touchscreen system (although I might be wrong on this particular handset). If nobody has tried it yet, does anyone know if it's possible to run ANDROID on something like the Motorola'a i930 WinMo handset? I'm also surprised I haven't seen anybody try this with a Vadem CLiO or SHARP PV-6000. Nice, big color touchscreen and a reasonable processor speed coupled with all of the widgets you could add would make these some pretty sweet little netbooks. Even if you couldn't get a direct wifi connection to work on the CLiO and had to use the PC connection to transfer files, this would still be most of what the mythological Apple table claims to be for no more than $200. I have a PV6000 just sitting here, begging for something like this to do so if anyone has any bright ideas, message me and we'll see if we can put together a mod worth posting!