Windows Mobile on the Pulse

[Guest Rickardy]

Is it possible to install WM 6.1 on the Pulse?

[Guest twrock]

Is it possible to install WM 6.1 on the Pulse?

WHY?!!! :)

[Guest James Kei]

Is it possible to install WM 6.1 on the Pulse?

WHY do you want to step backward ?

[Guest sun lbx]

As for me, it would be SO FUUUUUUUUUUUUCKN COOL that i can't even explain my point of view.

+the battery would last approximately twice as long

+it would be faster

and so on forth

i remember editing Excel files with no slowdowns on WM5 and 300MHZ

But i cant stand doing so on OC'd Pulse

[Guest Casterina]

I remember when their was a video of windows mobile running on Pulse, i would like to try it out :)

[Guest will8578]

could it be that the pulse has went as far as it can get and you'd like to try something new lol

[Guest jeddy1]

could it be that the pulse has went as far as it can get and you'd like to try something new lol

sweet dreams to many of u :)

its like u say ... if the pulse can transform into a HTC desire HD B)

[Guest sun lbx]

Aint nobody's gonna take care about what we might dream

[Guest jimmie32]

Realistically.

We already have a huge driver crisis with Android 2.2. And you're telling us to port it to a completely different platform.

What we could port:

- CPU: MSM7200A is also a popular choice in old WM6.5 mobiles. Yeah, this can be ported.

- GPU: Windows Mobile has Hardware 3D Acceleration for MSM7200A (DirectX), for *some* reason, but there IS. So... Mmm...

- Accessing the NAND and the SD card is no problem, these are off-the-shelf default chips that can be easily used with a generic driver. Windows is awesome at generic drivers sometimes.

- Telephony: It will work as a phone, but you won't be able to speak. See below.

- And the other low-level stuff, Power Management, Accelerometer (G-Sensor in our Pulse is a common part), AK8973 Compass/Orientation/Temperature Sensor

What we couldn't or need lots of driver REWRITING:

- Display/Touchscreen: The Synaptics touchscreen driver in our Pulse won't work in Windows, and although it *SHOULD* display things properly (or, VGA glory, 16 colors!) since we have DirectX working (so basic screen, framebuffer, etc should work perfectly, and generic drivers will power the LCD -> unless we have a proprietary Huawei part here. Usually, no.)

- Cameras: Hell, we can't even port it to Android 2.2, it's a proprietary part, we can do nothing, unless Omnivision releases their drivers, OPEN-SOURCE.

- Hardware Buttons, Sound, Microphone, means, ehh... what's needed. Yeah. Sad.

And lots of other things. I've looked into this before. It just wouldn't work. Our bootloaders are for Android. And you can't dual-boot a mobile device.

Porting Android to the iPhone was a terribly hard job, even if quite a few devs are working on it. That's the best example for a proprietary platform - you just can't port things to it, you're locked. No way. Huawei is not as bad as Apple when it comes to drivers, but it's not very good either. And the pulse's a dead end for development anyway.

Yes, the U8220 was once an almost high-end device. At the time when Android 1.5 was out, 480x320 was the BEST resolution you could get. Just like qHD 960x540 you have today. 3.5" *was* the largest Android screen on the market. Why is our [email protected]"=160DPI the STANDARD scaling for Android, still? Because this was the best. Back in the 1.5 days.

The Pulse's 528MHz (now OC'd to 748MHz) CPU *was* the standard for Android. The Pulse wasn't a "low-end" part before - it had it's days, but now it's over.

I'll try my best and devote my free time to Pulse dev when I have time - but well, my primary phone is my iPhone 4. I still like Android though, so I still have a 2G card in my pulse for testing. And I still take it, because it has a hell long battery life for calling. I've had many times when my iPhone dropped calls and died on me and my pulse was still 92% on battery.

Eh. Rant over.