Mobile Operating Systems

[directhex]

One more thing to add: The "Linux" entry from Wikipedia is unhelpful. Android, Maemo, WebOS and Moblin are incompatible Linux-based Smartphone OSes. Other Linux-based OSes (e.g. Access Linux Platform, used on Samsung Tocco and Pixon), are FeaturePhone, not SmartPhone, OSes

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I really like my HTC Tcouh HD.
People seem to slate the WM stuff but with 6 onwards its really improving.
Most come with Pocket Office so you get word, excel etc and it ties in with Exchange.
What else could you want...

Other than cut and paste...

Oooh, hang on..

[KowShak]

I have no problem using thumbs with 6.1 and SPB with fingermenu and a hardware or other keyboard on my x1

Parts of WinMo 6.5 can be used with a finger, but even on the latest builds there are bits that can't, development is still in progress. Until it can ALL be used without a stylus, its not fully finger friendly.

How often do you use your stylus on your x1? If you've never used it, you might say your phone is fully finger friendly, if you use it rarely, you can't say its fully finger friendly, if it was fully finger friendly why would you need to use the stylus at all?.

[finlay666]

Parts of WinMo 6.5 can be used with a finger, but even on the latest builds there are bits that can't, development is still in progress. Until it can ALL be used without a stylus, its not fully finger friendly.

How often do you use your stylus on your x1? If you've never used it, you might say your phone is fully finger friendly, if you use it rarely, you can't say its fully finger friendly, if it was fully finger friendly why would you need to use the stylus at all?.

I use it for playing bubble breaker and that is it... and I don't play bubble breaker any more.
The bits that aren't on 6.1 for me are the menus, hence SPB MobileShell (3.5 now) and FingerMenu
I can text, send emails, browse the net, add contacts etc without needing the stylus, don't even need it for turning wifi/bluetooth on.

[directhex]

I use it for playing bubble breaker and that is it... and I don't play bubble breaker any more.
The bits that aren't on 6.1 for me are the menus, hence SPB MobileShell (3.5 now) and FingerMenu
I can text, send emails, browse the net, add contacts etc without needing the stylus, don't even need it for turning wifi/bluetooth on.

So all you had to do was replace the GUI because what it ships with is useless? That's pretty telling

[Flibb]

No its called choice. I use a touch diamond 2 without any tweaks and cant remeber the last time I used the stylus.

Is android so useless that HTC need to use their own front end? Or do they like to offer us choice to run a variety of front ends?

[finlay666]

So all you had to do was replace the GUI because what it ships with is useless? That's pretty telling

So that is any different from the Sense UI that HTC slop onto their Android devices, of the TouchFlo they put on their WM devices? It's not. Its a GUI choice I made to what I wanted to use

I could use one of the many panels I can get however I choose to customise my device with software.

[jim]

Is it possible, with a Windows Mobile phone, to install old Windows apps to it, say an old game like Theme Hospital?

I've done a few searches but turned up nothing so far.

[dangel]

Is it possible, with a Windows Mobile phone, to install old Windows apps to it, say an old game like Theme Hospital?

I've done a few searches but turned up nothing so far.

Windows Mobile and Windows Desktop are not the same thing. They're _very broadly_ compatible in the sense they share API's but have entirely different cpu instruction sets (no x86 on mobile yet!) so code must be specifically targeted to the platform. However, there are emulators for Windows Mobile so all sorts of weird stuff is possible (just not always very useful).

[DeludedGuy]

Is it possible, with a Windows Mobile phone, to install old Windows apps to it, say an old game like Theme Hospital?

I've done a few searches but turned up nothing so far.

I know of emulators where you can play old PSone games.

[finlay666]

Is it possible, with a Windows Mobile phone, to install old Windows apps to it, say an old game like Theme Hospital?

I've done a few searches but turned up nothing so far.

Depends on the phone.

I have had the PC version of Duke Nukem 3d, COD2 and Warcraft 1 running on my Xperia, it depends on the phone and the game really

[jim]

Depends on the phone.

I have had the PC version of Duke Nukem 3d, COD2 and Warcraft 1 running on my Xperia, it depends on the phone and the game really

Yeah that's what I'd heard, but I hadn't seen anything to back it up. Seems to be fairly dodgy ground from what I can gather... pity, but we'll see.