How long can this madness keep up

by stephen mcgroarty 6/9/2010 5:32:24 PM

Second day, second post. This time its for a phone.

I was poking around at the PPCGeeks forums and saw that they have a section for Androidon the HTC Touch Pro 2. Now the thread I started reading explained that it is possible to get an "Almost working” version of Android on the Touch Pro2, but some things didn’t work, such as sound, the camera, mms, and booting off itself. I wasnt really worried about it since i was just going to play with it so I gave it a try. Android 2.1 has come a long way over 1.5 that I tried last. I continued to poke around and saw that there was currently work being done on it with a couple of choices for what type of OS, either the full HTC Hero OS or the full native Android OS like on the Motorola Droid

With trying it I must say that if MMS and the camera worked I would use it full time, it was nice and smooth and almost simple. I was curious to see how to get SSH working on the OS that i now had installed and read that it could be done, but with some mild trickery, so i went to the XDA-Developers forumsand saw this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=640785
Thats right, they have a port of Ubuntu working on the phone, with SMS and phone support. Now I do not know if this fully works on the CDMA Touch Pro but it is sexy and it is something that has my attention for the moment, so I might post a little bit more about putting it all together once I get it figured out. But I just wanted to share that there is a full linux distro on the mobile phone. Yeah this was a bad write up, so let me practice some more.

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