While Android high-ends are still waiting to get an update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the
Nokia N9, of all smartphones, has been hacked into running the latest version of Google's platform. Interesting, yet not all that surprising achievement, since the handset was
given a taste of Ice Cream Sandwich back in March. Allow us to remind you that the N9 is meant to run MeeGo and is the only device powered by the platform, which
Nokia abandoned.
But does this Androidified Nokia N9 work well enough to serve as a primary device? We can only guess since the source of the evidence
– Twitter user
Alexey Roslyakov (a.k.a. drunkdebugger), didn't share much details on that. However, this kind of software hacks are not necessarily meant to be fully functional, rather to serve as a proof of how skilled a developer is. On the other hand, third-party firmwares, such as
Cyanogenmod, have a following by the hundreds of thousands of users and are supported by a broad community of developers.
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