Such a great read. I've always loved the design of the Sidekick.
Would it ever be possible to load a version of Android onto one of these phones with enough effort? I suspect the hardware would make it difficult.
Would it ever be possible to load a version of Android onto one of these phones with enough effort? I suspect the hardware would make it difficult.
Almost certainly not, and if you did it'd be practically unusable. The highest-end Sidekick devices had 128 MB of RAM; the first Android phones, like the HTC Dream, had 192 MB or more. It'd also have no network connectivity, as the Sidekick was a 2G / 3G device and didn't support 802.11 wireless.
Hey, as one of the people that flashed Android onto one of my old HTC Windows Mobile phones and tried to daily it, I resent that!
(We used to make it work in the 1.6-2.x era...)