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Live Android Lets You Run Android on Your PC

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“Want to give Google Android a try, but don’t feel like buying a T-Mobile G1? LiveAndroid lets you download a LiveCD disc image of the Google Android operating system. Just burn the image to a disc, stick it in a CD-ROM drive, and reboot your computer and you can check out Android without installing it or affecting any files on your PC. You can also use the disc image in a virtualization application like VirtualBox or Microsoft Virtual PC if you want to try the operating system without even rebooting your computer.”

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11 Comments

  1. 2009-07-15 4:21 pm
    vtolkov

    It does not work really. Main screen works, but network does not, most of apps report instantly that they are crashed, memory card is not connected, so you can not try player or photoalbum. The only app you can try is calculator.

    • 2009-07-15 4:37 pm
      firl

      So what you are saying is we have a new live cd that can do calculations for us… amazing times

    • 2009-07-16 10:16 pm
      overflow

      It works fine for me. It doesn’t make calls, obviously and I cant see how to get any apps or data into it but everything there does what you’d expect. It’s quite neat, actually.

      • 2009-07-16 10:43 pm
        vtolkov

        Maybe it works inside VM. It does not work on my computers if I boot from it.

  2. 2009-07-15 5:04 pm
    lmathews

    Thomas, I love your site, but I cannot believe that you would copy Brad’s text verbatim and not link his article.

    http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/07/06/how-to-try-google-android-o…

    • 2009-07-15 5:48 pm
      jtrapp

      Both articles were cut and paste from google code…that is pretty much the state of the web these days.

      • 2009-07-15 6:08 pm
        TommyD

        Turns out there a couple keys to web journalism – these same keys apply to software development (in my experience):

        Ctl-C

        Ctl-V

  3. 2009-07-15 5:31 pm
    animaster

    I have tried Live Android using VirtualBox on my Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and I have written a quick overview and some screenshots here:

    http://animaster-talks.net/blog/2009/07/15/mencoba-google-android-d…

    Sorry it is in Indonesian, though you can translate it using Google Translate. ^^

  4. 2009-07-15 8:11 pm
    AndrewZ

    If you guys read the header, this was submitted by Moulinneuf. Apparently without attribution. Don’t go hating Thom.