Hacker and programmer David Wang has at last done it. He has hacked Apple’s iPhone. Wang has effectively booted the iPhone with Google’s Android.
This is certainly quite an triumph: booting Google’s Android operating system on Apple’s iPhone
David Wang, full fledged member of the a unit identified as “The iPhone Development Team,” which is devoted to hacking iPhones. In the last few days he posted a video revealing the Google’s Android on an iPhone.
The video reveals the booting procedure complete with the Tux Linux mascot. Plus it shows Wang using the Google Droid for surfing the internet, getting a text message, answering a phone call and playing music. Wang has the iPhone set up with a dual-boot configuration. You can observe this as Wang begins the video with the iPhoine running on its OS.
David Wang voluntarily admits that his hack is not production-quality at this time. He states that the hack is still in its Alpha stage but he claims that the whole thing works regarding functionality.
Wang’s Droid patch on the iPhone is quite a technical achievement Some state it will not transform the industry nor the behavior of mainstream users. The one remarkable thing Wangs hack does make obvious is that the iPhone may be compromised even with its grasp on the source code.
David Wang notes that he has been working on his hack since 2008. The video he uses to reveal his successful hack is done with a first-generation iPhone. But, newer iPhones are also prone to be compromised by this hack.
Wang claims that it ought to be easy to port forward to the iPhone 3G. He admits that the 3GS will take additional work however. Wang’s dream is to make the Google Droid a viable alternative or supplement for the iPhone and maybe we can at last include Flash.
