LiveAndroid Turns Your PC Into a Non-Functional Smartphone

LIveAndroid 0.2

Google may have dimmed the excitement of a PC running Android with the announcement of the Chrome OS, but there are still those who want to do it. For them, there is the LiveAndroid project, whose developers are constantly working on getting Android 1.5 running on a PC. Version 0.2 of LiveAndroid was released this week and it runs as a LiveCD operating system. This means you burn it to CD and boot your PC into Android without worrying about your existing OS installation.

Android is not fully functional in LiveAndroid yet, but it shows the potential of a Google OS designed for communications. The previous version of LiveAndroid was available in a USB compatible format and one is expected for this new version 0.2 soon. That would let you install it on a USB stick that could then be booted just like a CD. This is the format most compatible with netbooks that lack an optical drive.

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