Android on X1?

[guru_fordy]

There is a lot of press at the moment about Android and they mention the X1 alot. Could this mean it might ship with it?

If not how does one go about getting rid of WM6.1 and installing Android on a phone?

[Mweb586]

To answer your first question, I hope not. WM is far superior.

And for the second, ask people who have the TyTN II. Xda-developers somehow has an andriod installer all set for that phone. I watched a youtube video of the interface and was not impressed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=396782

[guru_fordy]

Well I've not seen Android running but most people say that it's going to rival Apple's software. Is it that bad?

Thanks for the link though it's nice to read up

[Mweb586]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO4np...eature=related

Here's a youtube video if you've got 6 minutes to burn. It shows android through most of the daily tasks you might be using it for.

Android rivaling the iPhone isn't bad if you like a simple, not very customizible OS. If customizibility is you thing, there's nothing like WM or its lesser cousin Symbian.

[guru_fordy]

Thanks for the advice

With Android being delayed (apparently), I won't be able to see it in person for quite a while. Just need SE to release the X1 now so I finally see it

[neowakko]

X1 system uses panels.
One of the panel is WM.
Other panels are not.
That could mean another panel is Android.

To run both at the same time, switching without resets etc, that's a superphone.

[norseman]

I dont think that will happen though, you are talking about installing one OS as a shell inside another and still having the phone running at full speed, I find that highly unlikly: both will want master access to the phone cpu and RAM, there would be major conflicts and death, there may well be an android style panel GUI but i can't anything else happening.

I don't knwo what the big fuss is all about though, the phone hasn't even been released and people are deciding that the interface is infereior to something else that isn't released! lets just give the blimming phone a chance first guys

[JKingGrim]

Originally Posted by neowakko

X1 system uses panels.
One of the panel is WM.
Other panels are not.
That could mean another panel is Android.

To run both at the same time, switching without resets etc, that's a superphone.

Thats not really how it works. the whole panel system runs inside WM. Every panel is windows mobile, just a different home screen. When they say one panel is windows mobile, its really just that one panel is the WM today screen.

[neowakko]

Yea but what we know so far is that WM is just one of the panels on the X1.
I seems that the phone doesn't run on WM but it does run WM.

In any case... one can dream...and request.

[norseman]

we are basically talking about potentially being able to skin the OS GUI with the panels and adding some minor functionality but that is it.