will android ever been released as a installable?

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in the sense that windows is? ie with a minimum requirement spec, you download a file stick it on a device that meets the spec and install...

with all these companies butchering what google put out it would be great to have the choice, LG for example bring out one of the most powerful phones yet it runs like something from 3 years ago.

i hope this happens sounds simple to me anyway! but im no expert
 
Software needs to interact with Hardware, of course there are drivers.

At it's base Android is Linux, the drivers (and indeed some post-bootloader setup code) is done via the kernel, as with all fully fledged operating systems, there's no realistic way to have a single 'installable' that will work on multiple devices with different cpus etc.

You could in theory do kinda what WP7 is doing, give a specific spec that all phones should be and then one version would work across multiple phones, pretty much purely because those multiple phones are just different cases around the same piece of hardware...
 
What a nightmare, imagine trying to get the manufacture/part number for even something minor like the camera, no thanks...

Best bet is something like cryogen going official, that's usually based on raw Android rather than a manufacture build? (let someone faff around with drivers/stability for you)

I'm perfectly happy buying a stable phone out the box (and removing the bloat via a root if necessary, using launcher pro/zeem etc)
 
yeah i use cryogen and understand the hassle that goes with it. its just a though bases, if google set a certain type of spec and drivers were either preinstalled or obtainable via the web then i don't see why it could not work
 
I guess you could make a ROM kitchen where you specify the phone model and it automatically puts the correct drivers in.
 
The combinations of drivers would be outstanding... It could be possible with like a 'first time install' internet connection like windows update...

If they released a basic android installable then when you first turn on it connects to a central android server and downloads the drivers for the hardware it has detected...
 
Building an installable ROM with a whole stack of driver in it would be fairly easy to do. However i can't see it happening as it not in the phone manufacture interest to become just system builders. They would end up like PC systems builders in a very competitive market with nothing to differentiate themselves, net result lower profits. An example would be the profit margin on an Apple desk top v a Dell. If Dell build a same spec machine as Apple they can only sell it for 30-50% less than Apple due to the competition.
 
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