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Originally Posted by kyllerbuzcut View Post
One small step for Nokia, one giant step backwards for maemo kind.
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Anyway what I really wanted to say/ask was that with the dissapointing hardware of the n9, what about turning an already existing device into a 'geek phone'. A good start might be the SE xperia pro, which my wife has decided she wants. It's got better specs, a hw keyboard. Comes with android. I've been reading about alien dalvik and what it could do for meego, BUT what could it do in reverse? Is that even possible- i.e to put alien dalvik on an android phone, and get it to run maemo/meego stuff, or actually achieve what may be the holy grail of allowing boot of maemo 5 or meego. So instead of using an n900 to dual boot NITdroid or maemo, you could use whatever adroid phone to dual boot adroid or maemo etc.
THEN it could be like having a new geek phone available to choose from every few months, every time an adroid hw keyboard device is released. Everyone could potentially have maemo/meego put on it.

Does anyone know more info about that possibility?
Well, I think it is unrealistic for end users to turn an Android phone into a Maemo/Meego/Openmoko phone. There will be too many closed components that we'll never get the sources for. We'd end up managing to get Maemo or Meego to boot, but with no GSM, GPS, DSP support, etc., etc. The old Openmoko users tried to get their software running on the Palm Pre, for example, and that project just fizzled. But maybe we could convince manufacturers to release Meego versions of exisiting Android phones. The manufacturers shouldn't have to do much with drivers, etc, since they would already have targetted the Linux kernel. Perhaps they could use this as a way to clear out obsolete inventory. I would be happy to buy last year's slick Android phone with Meego installed on it. The manufacturer would have to spend some money to get Meego running, but they could clear out their old inventory of last year's sexy phone by selling them to geeks who would be happy to get *something* running gnu/linux. Perhaps they could sell the units with no warranty, at least where that's legal.
 

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