Nokia N900 Linux Smartphone Running OS X 251
Rovaani writes "There is a video floating around of a Nokia N900 smartphone running the full desktop Mac OS X 10.3. From the author, Tomi Nikkanen: 'I believe this makes the N900 the first smartphone ever to run a full version of Mac OS X (at any speed, slow or otherwise). As you can see from the heavily edited video, it took almost 2 hours to reach the "About my Mac..." window. Keep your eye on the time display as that will give you an impression of just how uselessly slow it is.'"
Useless commentary (Score:5, Insightful)
Somewhat ironic (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Somewhat ironic (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Surprised at the time required (Score:4, Insightful)
New word accepted (Score:1, Insightful)
appifization v.
The application of DRM by vendors, to create lock-in and walled gardens for software.
Re:Phones more powerful than NeXTstations! (Score:3, Insightful)
I think the processor architecture is also being emulated (notice the "pearpc" bit at the top of the screen).
OsX native to the Arm architecture would probably be an order of magnitude or more faster.
Re:Surprised at the time required (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Useless commentary (Score:4, Insightful)
Whoa - where?
I want an Android VM for Maemo, hooked into the phone hardware. Then it's the best phone on the market bar none.
As it is, it's the best phone on the market except for the application support; I'm still hoping that comes good.
Re:Not useless (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Useless commentary (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Phones more powerful than NeXTstations! (Score:2, Insightful)
So then those Linksys routers that run Linux really don't because the functionality isn't the same. Cool.
The software is a modified form of OS X that they have branded iPhone OS.
It has webkit, Safari, quicktime, multihthreading, multitasking, the BSD core bits etc etc. It just has a different UI. Just because certain features aren't accessible in the default configuration as suppled by Apple doesn't change what it is.
Perfect Slashdot 'Phone (Score:5, Insightful)
Warning! (Score:3, Insightful)
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Sent from my Nokia N900
Re:complain to Congress (Score:3, Insightful)
Sprint won't allow its customers to use Verizon-branded phones, and Verizon won't sell phones that aren't built to be "Uniquely Verizon"
Yes, and Congress and the FCC could require all phones to use the same standard and frequencies.
Need more proof of corporate policy dictating handset frequency availability?
I don't need any proof at all. I'm saying Congress should grow some balls and put an end to this madness by law.
How can you read slashdot and have an Iphone (Score:2, Insightful)