Re: windows mobile on the N900
 

I agree with 'icebox' - I came here to bury the likes of M$ and iOS!
I want my phone as a linux phone (which atm it is!)!


I do enjoy Android though!

Incorrect.
You are talking about X10 home automation. OLD. It was developed many years ago and has been running on the iPhone for over a year... Even available for Droid:
X10 for Droid
More X10 for Droid

Crap loads more

Re: windows mobile on the N900
 

I am not talking about X10, do I :confused:

It is local Polish supplier - not well known but the system itself is pretty flexible and inexpensive. Unfortunately the software is MS-based.

Re: windows mobile on the N900
 

Hopefully not too off-topic but have you had any experience with LinuxMCE at all - http://http://linuxmce.com/ ? Heard a podcast with the devs a while back and it sounded really well thought out. It may be possible to port / write some of the client tools for Maemo5 as it's such an open framework.

Re: windows mobile on the N900
 

i don't have any direct experience with Android, but from what i've read, it suffers from lots of the same issues the Fruit OS and M$' suffer, namelly unecessary bloating and intense use of "proprietary" executable formats, and on top of that you also got the threat the big G might possibly not be trusted to respect their "don't be evil" modo(sp?).

Re: windows mobile on the N900
 

I'm just waiting for MeeGo 1.2 going RC in March and Gold in April. Open OS without restricition and finally a portrait QWERTY keyboard.

Re: windows mobile on the N900
 

I did not come here to bury anything, I came here because this is an exciting alternative OS. This site has a lot of MS hatered, but don't let the darkness bring you down.

Your project however, may be quite difficult. I can't say I've seen anyone port Win Mo elsewhere either. And as you can tell, the knowhows aren't exactly motivated.

From experience, I'm guessing desktop OSes is more motivating to port/show off, so expect to see a youtube video of someone spending 21 minutes booting up Windows 7 some day in the future.

Re: windows mobile on the N900
 

I read recently that Microsoft may show off an ARM version of Windows, we may actually see this happen much more easily than before.

Re: windows mobile on the N900
 

Yes we do have our dark side,
but take heart - putting winme in a vm on the n900
would be quite an achievement worthy of notice.
We would at least wait until you got it stable
before breaking out the tar and feathers. :D

(First instance of a virus on the n900 would be another award)
Still, good luck if you try your hand at it - it would be interesting

Where in the world do you get such an optimistic figure of a mere 21 minutes? :eek:
How on earth could that itty bitty little 600mhz processor
do all that in just 21 minutes ?

Re: windows mobile on the N900
 

Many threads about this already...

Like this one: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=48638

As I said, forget about Windows Mobile or Windows Phone because they're closed. Windows CE is "open" so it's just a matter of someone with the right license to start working on it.

Re: windows mobile on the N900
 

Do you think this might be the Windows equivalent to OS/X - > IOS? Taking a full OS and stripping it down into single purpose app store cash register software?