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Fzang
July 29th, 2008, 05:38 AM
My brother owns a HTC Touch Cruise phone which is also a PDA with windows mobile installed....

Windows mobile is crap though... looks ugly and pretty cluttered... then I saw the new ubuntu MID thingie which looks like a portable OS.

Is it something he can install on his PDA phone instead of windows mobile?
xoger
July 30th, 2008, 04:08 PM
yes
tel93
August 1st, 2008, 06:59 AM
My brother owns a HTC Touch Cruise phone which is also a PDA with windows mobile installed....

Windows mobile is crap though... looks ugly and pretty cluttered... then I saw the new ubuntu MID thingie which looks like a portable OS.

Is it something he can install on his PDA phone instead of windows mobile?

Sorry, but you can't install Ubuntu MID. Ubuntu MID is a full Linux OS with a UI designed for UMPCs, and it needs 512mb of RAM or more like regular Ubuntu.
jnw222
August 1st, 2008, 09:03 AM
oh man i was thinking the same thing

a ubuntu portable (aka. pubuntu for portable ubuntu)
Vadi
August 2nd, 2008, 12:30 PM
MID's are somewhat more powerful than PDA's that wm runs on... more screen size too. I doubt it would work nice.
zaarch
August 6th, 2008, 12:14 PM
plus..i am sure that since MID was not designed to replace Phone Os...chances are that even the OS might word, the Phone aspect i.e making calling over the GSM/CDMA network might be lost as MID was never intended for that.
zmjjmz
August 8th, 2008, 06:17 PM
Sorry, but you can't install Ubuntu MID. Ubuntu MID is a full Linux OS with a UI designed for UMPCs, and it needs 512mb of RAM or more like regular Ubuntu.

You're thinking NetBook remix, not the MID one.

You can go ahead and try it, but Android (whenever the hell it's ready) would be a better choice.
tel93
August 9th, 2008, 12:09 AM
You're thinking NetBook remix, not the MID one.

You can go ahead and try it, but Android (whenever the hell it's ready) would be a better choice.
No I am thinking of the MID one, designed for things like the Q1 Ultra.
Vadi
August 9th, 2008, 07:49 AM
And Q1 Ultra is an MID, not an UMPC.

A UMPC is a small laptop. They fold and have a more or less normal keyboard.
zmjjmz
August 9th, 2008, 09:32 AM
I think Android is a better choice then, but I'm disappointed that Ubuntu MID requires 512MB RAM.
3rdalbum
August 9th, 2008, 10:11 AM
I think Android is a better choice then, but I'm disappointed that Ubuntu MID requires 512MB RAM.

Surely it doesn't. Regular Ubuntu requires less than that, and neither MID nor Netbook runs the full Gnome.
zmjjmz
August 9th, 2008, 12:06 PM
Surely it doesn't. Regular Ubuntu requires less than that, and neither MID nor Netbook runs the full Gnome.

The MID edition page says it does.
Vadi
August 9th, 2008, 01:17 PM
Since when is "recommended" "required"?

2GB to 8GB Flash or disk storage, 256MB+ memory/512MB+ recommended
tel93
August 9th, 2008, 06:26 PM
Recommended = required in order to run well.
Fzang
August 17th, 2008, 06:45 AM
I checked the video for android

Does it run on touchscreens as well?