O2 XDA Ignito/HTC Diamond + Android
After deciding to move to a Nokia N900 running Maemo (soon to be MeeGo I guess after the recent Nokia/Iintel announcement), I'm left with an O2 XDA Ignito still running a slowly deteriorating copy of Windows Mobile. It seems to get slower over time, and frankly is just starting to annoy me. So, given that my second choice for a replacement handset would have been the Motorola Droid/Milestone, I was quite pleased to find http://www.androidonhtc.com which hosts a project for running Android on several of HTC's Windows Mobile devices (recent ones like the HD model's aren't supported yet). It doesn't actually replace Windows Mobile - that remains as the primary OS that the device boots into. What it does is use a little utility called 'HaRET' which you run under windows which reboots the whole device into Android, similar to what loadlin did for DOS years ago - basically the running windows image is replaced by a Linux kernel and a copy of Android. Installation...