What does everyone reckon the odds could be of someone getting Android running on an S60 phone in the future? I assume it'd need slightly different builds for each phone model but could a release be made that would allow it to be a simple enough process for somewhat regular users to accomplish?

I know Nokia haven't ruled out join the OHA but while they've got so much time and money invested in Symbian it's gonna take a lot of convincing.

Boy... Android... Like the CEO of MSsaid, it´s only a paper, nothing else, and you already think about put that paper inside an S60 device:rolleyes:

It was just a speculative thing, less about Android and more about how deep you can get software into the S60 phones.

i don' t think it is possible.
Symbian and Android are Os based on different device design. More detail you could refer to one book called symbian internls.

As far as I understand it, Android's 3rd party applications will be written in 'google android java' (gava?).

I think it'd be fairly simple to create some kind of gava kernel extension to symbian which would basically plug the android stuff into symbian.

Afterall java is just a VM, I can't see that there'd be any major technical reason that would prohibit gava vm running on symbian.

obviously it wouldn't be as simple as all that but in essence totally possible i think.

However how plausable? Symbian already has java (in various forms).
In terms of performance Symbian C++ is always going to be the quickest way to run your program and also its the only way to get access to things that require capabilities.