News - Android Jelly Bean ported to the first ever 'droid phone

[HEXUS]

T-Mobile G1 / HTC dream gets the sweetie treatment from XDA developers.

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[Biscuit]

There is no incremental update for my one x!

Also that looks pants, totally pointless exercise IMO

[scaryjim]

... totally pointless exercise IMO ...

I dunno, shows what can be done with some careful optimisation, and I reckon my step-son would be pretty excited to think that Jelly Bean might be possible on his old Magic, regardless of how poorly it ran. Also it's a reminder that you don't need the latest and greatest hardware for a functional device - it's no less pointful than sticking a quad-core processor in a mobile phone (IMNSHO, anyway ).

[Biscuit]

There isn't that much functionality improvement between froyo/gingerbread and ics/jelly bean. It's nicer and there is some cool desirable stuff but nothing essential really.

I don't dispute the lack of point in a quad core, but my phone is still silky smooth and I love it :-P

[crossy]

There isn't that much functionality improvement between froyo/gingerbread and ics/jelly bean. It's nicer and there is some cool desirable stuff but nothing essential really.

Sorry, going to slightly disagree - I borrowed a GB phone at the weekend and sheesh was I glad to get back to the S3. As you say, there's precious little that an ICS+ phone can do that a GB one can't - but the whole "experience" on the older phone feels "half baked" (OMG, I sound like an iFan).

I don't dispute the lack of point in a quad core, but my phone is still silky smooth and I love it :-P

I really like my S3, I keep finding stuff that I admire and very few things that annoy me, ("plop, plop" dial tones is #1). Dual-core is probably the "sweet spot" as far as I'm concerned - I wouldn't willingly go back to a single-core Android phone.

Getting back to the article - it's a good thing that the xda-devs have managed this - not sure how usable/practical it is. To me though, it does kind of give the lie to the manufacturers that claim their 2011 device isn't getting ICS because "it can't support it" (very budget phones excluded).