Perhaps we’re impatient but it seems to have taken an unduly long period for the first working Android prototypes to show up.  Thankfully Willcom - largest operator of Japan’s PHS network - have developed a reference board in order to demo an implementation of the OS platform; in its current state, however, it’s not exactly built for a pocket.  Based around a Freescale ARM CPU running at 532MHz and a GSM SIM, the test board can access all of Android’s included functionality (from banalities such as voice calls through to the advanced mobile mapping) as well as handle multitasking

It seems that Willcom are using the reference design to publicise the company’s work; it’s a working design that, although lacking a built-in speaker or microphone, can be plugged into external peripherals so as to enable voice calls. 

[via Gizmodo]