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2010-12-18 , 11:00
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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!

Originally Posted by mlb View Post
I do agree, I dislike MS system as well. However - there are useful applications available only for Windows Mobile. For example my problem - a nice app for home automation (control of heat, light, alarm, etc...) - was developed for only for WM. I love my N900, but I would love it even more if I could use it control my home stuff...
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
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2010-12-18 , 11:34
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Originally Posted by kingoddball View Post
You are talking about X10 home automation.
I am not talking about X10, do I

It is local Polish supplier - not well known but the system itself is pretty flexible and inexpensive. Unfortunately the software is MS-based.
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2010-12-18 , 12:05
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Originally Posted by mlb View Post
I love my N900, but I would love it even more if I could use it control my home stuff...
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.
 
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2010-12-22 , 21:35
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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?).
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2010-12-22 , 23:33
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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.
 
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2010-12-22 , 23:54
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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.
 

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2010-12-23 , 00:01
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Originally Posted by volt View Post
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.
I read recently that Microsoft may show off an ARM version of Windows, we may actually see this happen much more easily than before.
 
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2010-12-23 , 00:13
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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.

(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

Originally Posted by volt View Post
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.
Where in the world do you get such an optimistic figure of a mere 21 minutes?
How on earth could that itty bitty little 600mhz processor
do all that in just 21 minutes ?
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2010-12-23 , 00:27
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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.
 
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2010-12-23 , 00:28
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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?
 
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