On Jul 7, 11:51 pm, Fred Grott <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chrome OS would not land on phones as it has no features to interact with
> the mobile handset baseband units for GSM or CDMA.
When IP only platforms WiMax or LTE come to be - that's the
perspective for Chrome OS mobile devices to be used as (cough) "cell"
phones proper. You get the idea...
There's actually been a device out like that already, the Nokia
N810WiMax Edition. Now that's a proper Linux device, root privileges
and all, so I suppose that's why it's been so hastily pulled from the
market last year. Or maybe not, perhaps one day we'll find out when
someone at Nokia talks shop. In any case, I have to admit to give it
cult like admiration.
There's downsides to using a straight Linux derivative on a mobile
device though. The event model for example does not support tapping
well, and native access to camera, sensors and so forth have to be
implemented outside the "regular" scope of Linux. So I suppose they're
saying once everything's said and done, they'll actually have Android
around to cover the smaller mobile devices.
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