Countless smartphones have been released by major phone manufacturers in the past few years, such as Nokia, Apple, HTC, Motorola, Samsung, Palm, etc. Each of these phones runs on its own operating system (OS) and we still do not see a universal mobile phone that is compatible with different operating systems in the market.
Phone hackers had proven that it’s indeed possible to run different operating systems on the same phone. Some recent examples are :-
Nokia N900 (default OS is Maemo 5) running on Android
iPhone 3G (default OS is iPhone 3.0) running on Android
Of course, before running a different OS on a phone there are many considerations such as hardware driver compatibility, etc. However, I believe the hardware-OS compatibility issue can be solved between the OS developer and phone manufacturer. Hopefully, we’ll soon see the first universal mobile phone that we can install different OS on it, just like how we are doing on our PC.
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Nice to see the phones which are smarter in the world like an mini PC. It shows how they can manage them to show whats with them.
Nice to see the phones which are smarter in the world like an mini PC. It shows how they can manage them to show whats with them.
This is fascinating to see the iPhone running 3G running the Android OS smoothly.
This is fascinating to see the iPhone running 3G running the Android OS smoothly.
the thought of an iphone running android is very amusing :-)