Before you get excited: this isn’t exactly what it looks like. Rather than being the amazing hack of getting Google’s open-source cellphone platform Android running on an iPod Touch, it’s actually a slideshow to give an impression of how the OS might look on a multi-touch device. Touch owner cast42 sliced out some screenshots of Android and sync’d them to his PMP; no, it may not make calls or, well, do anything, but it gives a fair idea of how the platform could look on a device of a similar form-factor to the iPhone.

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With a recent update to the mobile Google Reader interface, the RSS aggregator software takes another pace in front of the competition with more choice as to how feeds are displayed and improvements to the UI:

“While the functionality is the same as previous versions, we’ve changed the user interface to make it easier to navigate and select often-used links. We’ve also moved the navigational buttons to the top, since it’s easy to return to the top of the page by just tapping on the status bar”Dolapo Falola, Google Reader official blog

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