The Android SDK is great to deal with layouts and codes, but as Steve Horowitz said in the Android Demo video "In order to create a great product you actually have to live with it". So having Android on a handset facilitates to test all the applications and also the keys used on the

Just a few developers will have hands on a prototype device, and while projects such as Bug Lab’s BUG modular smartphone suggest an innovative alternative, they too will often be outside of the reach of many. A guy named  Josh Guilfoyle tired of just using the emulator of SDK decided to implement the platform on the Windows Mobile based smartphone.

With the Android kernel and a port of of the fbvncserver software, Josh established a server on his SDK machine, accessed by a Windows Mobile handset running the popular .NET VNC Viewer. 

This is not a final solution as you might find some problems like having to disable the Android animations and some other modifications, however, as almost every developer can have access to a Windows Mobile, it is a way to test the platform until the project becomes more avaliable.

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