I downloaded the USB image from here:
http://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/list
‘android-x86-1.6_usb.img.gz’
I extracted the content and used Win32DiskImager to image it to a 4GB Kingston Data Traveler
I set my boot order to boot from Hard Drive last
My Q1 completely ignores the flash stick and just boots Windows.
Did I miss something?

I have had my Samsung Q1U-CMXP for a while and hate using windows or linux (ubuntu, debian, fedora, etc…) on it because they lack the user interface to support tablet and such.

I started to look into android-x86 a month or so ago, and have been documenting my experience and changes to the android-x86 code to get more support for my device. Here is the forum post: http://groups.google.com/group/android-x86/browse_thread/thread/d54413e47c324bd0

I would like to find more people with Q1U models/variants so I can support more of them with my changes and/or their help.

Btw, here is a list of working and non-working with my changes:

Working:
* Native accelerated 1024×600 resolution using the i915 (with kms).
* Wireless & wired networking
* Touch screen (you may need your own pointercal generated by ts_calibrate from tslib. Support will be added soon to generate a pointercal from within android-x86 using ts_calibrate.)

Non-Working:
* 3G on CMXP model
* Audio (soon, working on this next)
* HW keyboard still needs some love
* Front and Back camera still don’t work. Uses the gspca_vc032x driver.

If you have a Samsung Q1U, Please read the thread, and let me know what works and doesn’t work for you. Also provide the output of lspci, lsusb, and lshal, and a pointercal if necessary and I will get your device supported!

Enjoy,

Bryan Hundven

My concern isn’t out of “lack of trying it”, my concern is out of a year of full time use of it. The built-in Android browser just isn’t up to being my netbook (or larger) browser.

And, I’m not sure fennec (the Firefox mobile browser) is actually going to be different. I don’t know whether or not it does/will-do mobile versions of Google Apps, etc. Or if it will do the desktop versions of those types of web sites/web apps. Plus, it’s a natively compiled app, last I checked, so I hadn’t expected it to come to Android. If it is, and it will do the full versions of web sites (instead of mobile versions), then that would handle my browser concerns. Android browser for mobile and finger/touch-screen optimized sites, fennec for conventional sites.

If you mean “trying it specifically on the Samsung Q1 Ultra” … that will require the VNC client part, as well. I use VNC on my Q1U right now to remote control my desktop, for various reasons. That allows me to keep an eye on things (for work, for certain applications, etc.). I wouldn’t feel comfortable giving that up. So, the browse alone wouldn’t cause me to say that I’m ready for Android on the Q1U.

Give me a real/full web browser (Full Google Apps, Flash, etc.), and a better VNC viewer client, and I’d be pretty happy to test replacing the OS with Android. But, without those things, it wont have what I want/need/use on it now.

By the way, you wondered about the resolution: if it’s doing full native resolution, it should be 1024×600, not 800×600.

It would be nice to see the virtual buttons at the top right of the screen (UDF, Vol+, Vol-, and Menu) mapped into Android. UDF for screen rotation maybe, and “Menu” for … MENU!!! … just what we need, right? :-)

Or, really, the right mouse button could be for Android’s menu, then the virtual button named “menu” could be for the Android “Home” button functionality.

I hope you manage to work out the persistent storage, touch screen, and maybe even the cameras. That would be pretty outstanding. Screen rotation would be pretty nice too. Which app store do you have access to? The real/main android app market? Or something else?

If you do a follow up, please let us know if you’ve got full Gmail or not, and full Google Reader or not. If it’s like the G1, then the browser will do a fancy version of “mobile Gmail” and “mobile Reader” (sort of like the iPhone versions of those) … but it wont let you do things like “send as” in gmail, nor edit article tags in Google Reader.