China's QiGi i6 supports Android, Windows Mobile, lust in one package

For now, Android's got about as much enterprise support as a Sidekick (well okay, a little more, but not much) -- so that's got to be keeping G1s out of the hands of throngs who are too tied-down to Exchange, Notes, or some equally stuffy piece of server-side software to be able to make the switch. China's QiGi feels your pain, which is where the company's surprisingly okay-looking i6 comes into play: the handset supports both Android and Windows Mobile, although you can't dual-boot -- you've got to choose one and run with it until you decide to install the other. It packs a 624MHz processor, 256MB of ROM, 128MB of RAM, a trackball, and -- in lieu of a QWERTY slide -- an on-screen Chinese keyboard with stylus support that we haven't seen before. Android, we love ya and all, but until you go through puberty, this multi-platform support is just about the best thing we've ever heard.

[Thanks, zsx]

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 28th 2008 3:09PM]

Nothing new really. Even before the G1 was out Android was already ported and running on various HTC phones.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 1st 2008 10:29AM]

I'm not sure if "running" is really an accurate description of what Android was (and is?) doing on those HTCs with no touchscreen support, no keyboard support, no trackball support and no radio support....