Im building a new toy. An iPhone Simulator for Android. This is not just an image put on your screen, it is an html5 simulation of the iPhone home screen. Right now it does nothing, but hey, its cool. Im building some of the apps tonight, like the calculator (dumb but easy), and the phone dialer. We will see how it goes.

UPDATE:

I have the spring in the springboard home, fun to play with, and the preliminaries for the dialer. I know that the animations for launching apps is not there, but hang tight, it will be. Video Preview iPhoneSim

Update 2:

I have the calculator app finished, and have dialer functions working. Just need to find a way to dial directly instead of invoking the android dialer.

Download it here.

1. Download file.

2. Rename the file to “update.zip”.

3. Plug your Droid into your computer via USB. On the Droid go to the Notifications bar and select “USB Connected” then press “Mount”.

4. Once the device is mounted, the SD card will show as a removable device on your computer

5. Put the “update.zip” file you just renamed into the root directory of your SD Card.

6. Unmount the device from your computer, and turn the Droid off.

7. Hold down the “X” key on the physical keyboard and the power button. Hold both of them down until you see a Triangle with an !.

8. Hold the Vol+ button then press the camera button and you will see a menu.

9. Using the D-pad on the physical keyboard, select the option to update with the update.zip file.

10. This should take a little bit. Once it’s done select the option to reboot the phone.

The phone will take much longer than normal to boot, don’t worry as it is normal

No I’m not picking my nose. Thanks for that Vimeo. NOTE: I say 2.1, thats obviously not what I mean.

Android 2.0.1 Update from Chris Fikes on Vimeo.

Nice Work Verizon.