Comment Re:I'd rather have an N900 (Score 3, Interesting) 69
Well, the Native Development Kit (NDK) lets you build native code. There is a regular C/Unix environment underneath. If you look at a project like the Android Scripting Environment, they've managed to make Python, Ruby and Lua work on the phone, packaged as an
You can compile pretty much anything for the phone, without needing root/Debian, though its not always as simple as 'apt-get install', for sure.