Lots of news about Android and iPhone this week, one of the interesting thing is the latest hack to port Android OS engine into iPhone 3G. Although the hack code is seems like in version 0.1.0 but if you’re an adventurous iPhone user and wanted to do some experiment you’re good to go.

Porting the Android OS almost all its features up and running except for some power management features issues that little bit quirky. Of course doing this tech exercise requires your iPhone is Jailbreaked by either through iPhone dev team’s PwnageTool or Geohot’s blackra1n. If you jailbreak your iPhone using Spirit you’re out of luck because this won’t work. Again, if you’re into some adventure you can go over to PCWorld for detailed instructions on how to install Android on your iPhone 3G.

source {redmondpie pcworld}

A tethered jailbreak is a term in which if for some reason you need to restart your jailbreaked iPhone you need your iPhone attached to a computer to assist with the booting sequence. Some users of iPhone tethered jailbreak is always worried that their iPhone might run out of battery or suddenly froze and that will require cold boot.. worry no more untethered jailbreak is here.

A new jailbreak tool named “Spirit” is now available which allows you to modify the iPhone OS to enable tethering or run apps not approved by Apple through appstore. The “Spirit” jailbreak works with all three iPhone OS powered iDevices such as iPhone 3.1.2 and 3.1.3, iPod touch 2G/3G, and the new iPad 3.2.

Speaking of iPad, the Spirit author mentioned that for iPad jailbreak is still in beta version which might resulted to some apps can cause problems for the device. I guess this must be something to do with Cydia, which is primarily designed for iPhone and using it for iPad might break some apps.

Also, you need to know that “Spirit” is for jailbreaking only and won’t unlock your iPhones this means you’re stuck with carriers supported by Apple (e.g. AT&T, etc.). You might also need to review the Apple terms that might break warranty or discontinue your mobile phone service by doing this process.