Can anyone shed some light, I've never heard of Geeksphone. Can you use Android, and iOS and Windows 8 on it? If so I can see why people would want to buy one.
They are one of the producers of Firefox OS developer phones. ZTE being another one.
Geeksphone launches the first multi OS smartphone
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#12I wonder if they'll ship the US. I've wanted an Atom SoC phone for a while
I don't know if calling it a SoC is right. It's a CPU and GPU on one chip, but far from what the Qualcomm ones offer (for now).
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#13Is it just me, or is there no LTE support here? Seems like a largish oversight.
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#14Can anyone shed some light, I've never heard of Geeksphone. Can you use Android, and iOS and Windows 8 on it? If so I can see why people would want to buy one.
You probably can't use any proprietary OS on it: Apple certainly would never license iOS, and I doubt W8 would either.
Android, Ubuntu Mobile, Firefox OS, Meego, Tizen are more likely candidates.
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#15Is it just me, or is there no LTE support here? Seems like a largish oversight.
It's a $300 phone, and between licensing and the actual hardware, LTE is very expensive.
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#16Can anyone shed some light, I've never heard of Geeksphone. Can you use Android, and iOS and Windows 8 on it? If so I can see why people would want to buy one.
You probably can't use any proprietary OS on it: Apple certainly would never license iOS, and I doubt W8 would either. Android, Ubuntu Mobile, Firefox OS, Meego, Tizen are more likely candidates.
Windows 8 runs on commodity x86 hardware. Assuming there's driver support, it should work.
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#17Not really true. I know quite a few devices in industry currently sold that support Windows CE or Android as desired.
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#19This may be a little OT... but if you want to win me over on a geek focused device... i.e. power users... 3000mAh battery minimum. I know it's not the core intent but personally that grabs my attention as a power user just as much.
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#20This may be a little OT... but if you want to win me over on a geek focused device... i.e. power users... 3000mAh battery minimum. I know it's not the core intent but personally that grabs my attention as a power user just as much.
I was thinking someone should make a black and white android smartphone if it helps the battery to last longer. I would take half a week of battery over a color screen but I'm probably the minority.