Connect USB Keyboard with Nexus One

So what if one can install Android on iPhone, you of course cannot have iPhone OS on Android Phones, but Android phones now get hacked Host USB driver which lets you connect any USB peripheral to the Android phone.

Thanks to the sven.killig.de, the project has been ported to support Nexus One Host USB

How to Install Ubuntu on Nexus One / Android

Prerequisites

• Hardware
  • Nexus One
  • Micro USB OTG cable
  • USB Dual Power Cable
  • Powered USB 2.0 hub (charging works)
• Software
  • Android 2.2 Froyo OR 2.1
  • ConnectBot
  • Debian loop fs
  • Binaries
    • boot.img or zImage
    • Modules
  • Building
    • android-msm-2.6.32 kernel source
    • Patch (No device mode, Andrew de Quincey’s work not ported yet.)
    • .config

The future of Mobile PCs

In 5-10 years, we’re all just going to be carrying around cell-phone sized devices that connect wirelessly to monitors or physically to ‘docking stations’. We’ll just have our stuff running android on the device screen when unconnected, and when we dock we’ll just get blown into a full X session with all our apps and settings carried with us.