planner wrote:

I think you're missing my point, and (like so many people) confusing an application SDK with an operating system. Yes, I'm well aware that Android has been made to display its home screen on a number of existing devices, and kudos to the clever people who made that happen. But none of those is a working Android phone; they can show simple apps, but they aren't making any phone calls, making efficient use of the battery, etc. (as far as I know).

Anyway, so what? As I said in my post, "we may see enthusiasts porting it to a number of existing phones", by which I meant that, once the Android *platform* is released (which, so far, it hasn't been) we may have people making existing phones really work with Android. I also said "I guess even the iPhone is not impossible".

But I also said that "those will never be mainstream Android platforms", meaning that app developers won't waste their time writing Android apps tailored for the RAZR, for example, because only a handful of people (at most) will ever hack their old phones to run a whole new OS.

So, to sum up: my belief is that if you want a mainstream, supported phone running Android, then you will need to buy a phone that was built to run Android. And if I was you, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Apple to release an Android iPhone.