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Nokia Building an Android Phone

The rumors that Google might be building its own Android phone have been ☞ revived once again. I don’t think that would be a really big surprise. At the end of the day, just imagine for a second that the Android market will not take off even if there are ☞ quite a few devices available and ☞ new devices are announced every day. Google launching his own phone would probably be the last chance as that will most probably guarantee a lot of buzz and would attract a lot of users.

But let’s pause for a moment and think what would happen if one of the current market leaders would try to build an Android phone. Can you imagine Nokia launching an Android phone called Nandroid97, or RIM launching an Android phone called AndroBerry or even Apple launching an iNdroid?

Before jumping up and screaming that’s totally stupid (which I agree that’s probably 1000% correct) lets just imagine that due to the losses registered for the first time in the last decade and due to their platform ☞ not seeming to catch up with the competitors’, Nokia would decide to finally ditch ☞ Symbian and build a phone on the ☞ Android platform.

Nokia probably still has a lot of Java developers from their J2ME era. While not similar, these guys could start developing on Android almost right away and leave the company focusing mainly on innovating on the devices. Plus Nokia will not have to invest even more time and money into their own market place (Ovi Store) and could innovate their “cloud” offering (and why not push it as the common Android cloud).

So, what are the odds of seeing an Android phone made by Nokia (Nandroid97)?

ultrasn0w for iPhone 3GS

While the competition has already launched Nokia N97 phone, which according to reports can hardly be considered a competitor for the “reaching for perfection” iPhone 3GS, Orange Romania seems not to be ready yet.

Meanwhile, thanks to the devteam, it looks like we have the ultrasn0w for the iPhone 3GS:

Here’s a brief video demonstration by @planetbeing of the iPhone Dev Team’s ultrasn0w unlock for the new iPhone 3G S. Special thanks to @Oranav for the at+xlog crash — a gift to the community that has kept on giving!

Our ultrasn0w program uses the at+xlog crash as an injection vector of our unlocking payload — and it does so on the 3GS in exactly the same way as on the 3G!  But this injection vector will be lost if you update to 3.1 using the official Apple IPSW, which updates the baseband.  So stay away from official 3.1 IPSWs until we release the tools that let you update the firmware without updating the baseband.

There are already tons of reactions to this devteam post. Leaving aside the complains and excitements notes, I have found a very interesting one:

The other part of the equation is that it’s just not ready for primetime yet. No easy to use tool exists. We don’t even have a standardized long set of instructions everyone can follow (generating one would take effort as well).

Notice I didn’t show you the process of HOW I jailbroke my particular phone. That’s a ten hour video right there. =P (well, I was still working out all the bugs and caveats as I came across them

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Even if Apple has already announced the upcoming iPhone OS 3.1, you must not upgrade to this version yet.

I will continue to monitor the Orange Romania site for the moment the pre-order page will go live. Or is it live already?

Disclaimer: Right now my brain has a small center focused on this launch, but I promise that once I get my iPhone 3GS I’ll get back to my normal posts.