[dabackwoodboy]

Originally Posted by TurboFool

Completely impossible.

Android is an open-source operating system. Its source code is readily available, it's freely-distributed, and it's designed for a wide variety of hardware, including and especially the type of processor our phones use. As well, the primary maker of this hardware at the moment is HTC, making it more likely that the drivers necessary to run the hardware can be ported to our HTC devices.

The iPhone OS is closed-source, known only to Apple, and built ONLY for a very specific hardware set that bares absolutely no resemblance to our hardware, both from an aesthetic sense and from a technical sense (completely different type of processor, completely different touchscreen technology, etc.). It wasn't designed to be compatible with differing technologies, it was designed to be compatible with one, and only one, set of hardware.

Until Apple pulls a shocking twist and changes the internal hardware on the iPhone to the same chipsets used by our phone (far less likely than it was when they went from PowerPC to x86 on their PCs), we will NEVER see the iPhone OS ported to our phones.

now why didnt i think about all that. thanx man. it kinda sucks. but o well