There isn't any good open source alternative to run on this but one could be crafted I guess. There's Meego which has a Qt interface that could be slimmed down and should run on Qt on the framebuffer and there's also some open source Qt stuff for Symbian that might be portable to Linux. This is just an idea but I'm planning on investigating this as it certainly sounds better to me than Android. I like Qt and C++ better and it's better option for such a low end configuration anyway.
P.S. : Sorry for the offlist response , damn gmail
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Scott Weisman sweisman@pobox.com wrote:
This is a very nice effort. I have an HTC Kaiser running FroYo, and I would like to add some observations based on this phone, which is more capable in every respect than the G2. The Kaiser is just barely adequate. While the G2 can run Linux, and by extension, Android, it's just too underpowered to make it usable, IMHO. I haven't seen Android on more modern hardware, but I imagine it would be similar in responsiveness to the iPhone 4, which is VERY smooth. It's too bad that there doesn't seem to be any alternative that is responsive enough on lighter, but still capable, hardware like this.