I guess you didn't read my post....
On Sep 28, 11:28 pm, Chi Kit Leung <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think the apps in Android are customized for handheld devices. I think the
> screen size is another limitation.
>
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> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Andrew Hays <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I suppose, in theory, though, in the future, we may be able to install
> > like... Ubuntu 9.04 on a phone, but maybe not the latest version, since it
> > would be made to work with the latest computer tech.
> > ------------------
> >http://andrewhays.net
> >http://ashays.livejournal.com
>
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:01 PM, lbcoder <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> Interesting idea.
> >> Sure. I suppose you could. In fact, you can right now! This phone is a
> >> LOT more powerful than a lot of the desktop computers I had up to
> >> about a decade ago.
>
> >> Thing is this;
> >> Your current full fledged desktop distro advances along with the state
> >> of the art. Phone hardware, being smaller, will ALWAYS be several
> >> steps behind, so when the time comes that your phone is as powerful as
> >> your *current* desktop computer, the full fledged desktop distro won't
> >> be much good to run on anything less than 5THz with 5TB of RAM... see
> >> the problem?
>
> >> The other issue is the screen size. In fact, in my opinion, that is
> >> the really big issue. Your desktop distro is optimized for a MUCH
> >> larger screen. As painful as it would be to use Android as your
> >> primary desktop OS, it would be MUCH MUCH MUCH worse to try to fit
> >> openoffice + firefox concurrently within your phone's display.
>
> >> And FYI: C# no since that is MS/MONO crapola, but Java+PHP+etc., would
> >> be fine within android almost as is... look up debian install for
> >> 'droid. The main limitation there is RAM.
>
> >> On Sep 27, 7:09 am, Em <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > I'm noticing that smartphones are becoming more powerful and will soon
> >> > have the processing power of a laptop computer. When this happens
> >> > wouldn't it be more suitable to have a fully-fledged OS on them? If I
> >> > could have a phone with Ubuntu on it I could finally put all my Java,
> >> > C#, PHP apps on there and not have to worry about re-writing them or
> >> > waiting for someone to port them over. If people still prefer
> >> > Android, thats great, but why can't it be part of the OS as a
> >> > framework?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Michael Leunghttp://www.itblogs.infohttp://www.michaelleung.info
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