Aren't these the guys that produced the Peak+ etc? I can't seem to locate those devices on their site anymore
They don't sell their previous smartphones anymore, they are focused on the Geeksphone Revolution
Geeksphone launches the first multi OS smartphone
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#32I wonder if they'll ship the US. I've wanted an Atom SoC phone for a while
I'm sure they ship to the US
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#33I just bought one and I'm excited. As a developer it is wonderful to have one device 2 operating systems for test my apps. About dual boot there is nothing clear. Any idea?
Dual boot is very difficult to achieve. On the Revolution you are able to switch from one OS to another but you can't select which OS you want to use while booting
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#34This 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.
You mean like this one: http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/04/yotaphone-e-ink-smartphon... ?
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#35This 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.
If it's successful, soon enough extended capacity batteries are likely going to start appearing.
There are extended capacity batteries on the market, I use one from zerolemon. For most users they are too bulky.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Phones aren't commodity x86 hardware in the way PCs are. The hardware can't be enumerated.
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#37This 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.
Agreed.
At least they got the SD card, though.
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#38Its an Atom processor? Does that mean it can run any x86 OS?
It's one of the Atom SoCs which Intel doesn't seem to have a public datasheet on. From what I know they're almost but not quite like a regular PC --- they're missing some bits that wouldn't really be necessary on a phone.
For half a second there, I thought you said "almost, but not quite, completely unlike a regular PC" and almost laughed out loud.
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#39Looks interesting, but I think they should have focused more on the spec.
Although, I definitely like the SDcard slot and real buttons rather than stupid onscreen ones.
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#40I 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).
All of the recent Atom brand chips for mobile deployment are SoCs. There's a CPU, a GPU and a shared memory package on the same silicone. Intel calls it a SoC themselves [1]
[1]: http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2012...
Onstage was the world’s first public demonstration of the forthcoming 32nm Intel Atom SoC for tablets and hybrids running on Microsoft* Windows* 8, codenamed “Clover Trail.”