http://thismobilelife.com Reviews and Previews of Today's Newest Mobile Apps Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:17:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://thismobilelife.com/2008/07/01/12/ http://thismobilelife.com/2008/07/01/12/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:23:05 +0000 Rory Rezzelle http://thismobilelife.com/?p=12 Over on XDA Developers someone has taken a bootable copy of Linux and made it run Android, that’s right, Google Android, on Windows Mobile phones. It’s a simple hack to run and easy to install. Get all the files and follow the instructions on this site and you should be in business.

Remember this will be a bit buggy and you won’t be able to get to all your applications or your contacts (found this out through my own discovery). On my HTC Touch the right directional button opened up context menus, the left directional button went back to the previous screen, and the camera button brought up the onscreen keyboard. I sent and received an SMS with no problem but when I told an incoming call to go to voicemail the vibrate in my phone stuck and I had to take the battery out to restart it.

The distro runs in RAM so you don’t have to worry about it running all the time, all you have to do to quit it is to perform a soft reset and you will be back to WM. But any time you are ready to show off your Android phone, just run the Haret boot loader and in a few minutes you will be ready to wow.

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