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Originally Posted by TurboFool

Keep in mind, they're referring to Android being designed with any form factor of phone in mind. They're not saying that they'll simply release it so you can INSTALL it on any phone you like. Granted, the people at XDA will manage to make it work on quite a few devices over time, and I doubt Google will so much as blink at it being done, but that's completely different from them releasing an installer that will just put it on any phone you plug into your computer. There are drivers to worry about, and bootloaders to hack through. Google could get into legal trouble by releasing software that cracks the protection built into phones, and would open themselves up to trouble for potentially bricking phones. No, I see Google aiming for this to be an ultimate phone OS available to manufacturers of all sorts, but I don't see them officially supporting it being installed onto pre-existing, already-purchased phones.

Yeah, I'm more expecting to get specific versions tailored to fit the phone and the carrier. Then it will just be a matter of hacking open source code to tweak and customize it.