We'd figured that RIM's ambitious (if not questionable) project to port the juiciest morsels of BlackBerry OS to a virtual machine running atop Windows Mobile was abandoned long ago, and for all we know, it has -- but the half-baked remnants of the undertaking are finally available thanks to the good folks at xda-developers.
BlackBerry Application Suite, as its known, has finally found a proper home in a CAB file that's making the rounds on the forums, and it's apparently been bolted together with enough duct tape to work on an AT&T
Fuze. Well, "work" is a relative term -- you've apparently got to be on a BES server for it to work, you need to generate a valid PIN, and actuating the touchscreen requires a double-tap, but when you're ready to stop punishing yourself with this craziness, the cold comfort of WinMo is just a couple clicks away. If you think you need this, odds are you really just need a
Storm2, but hey, feel free to ruin your weekend trying to get this to work.
posted February 12th 2010 7:24AM
Engaget called WinMo comfortable?
Bricks were shat.
@Erb he said "cold comfort"
and three OS's were FUZEd into one!
@iroydude
Yes, with my Fuze I can dual boot between WinMo and Android, and within Windows I can boot up BlackBerry OS :-) Triple Threat Fuze.
@LexSky
There's an Xzibit joke in there somewhere.
@teh POD
Yo, dawg,
We hard you like smartphones. So we put a smartphone OS in your smartphone's smartphone OS, running alongside ANOTHER smartphone OS. Now that's what I call X-treme, like your boy X-to-the-Z XZIBIT!
@LexSky Don't forget Palm OS http://www.styletap.com
This is kind of old, I remember hearing about this almost a year ago on PPCG or XDA. Either way, it didn't work too quickly back then, how's the speed now? While yes, it's cool that the WinMo guys can "triple boot", let's remember that neither Android nor BBOS is working particularly well. Android last I remember (1.6 on my old Touch Pro) could actually make calls and do data, but was prone from super-quick battery drain, sleep issues, no camera, no GPS, no Bluetooth, etc. So while yes, you can get into these OS's, can you actually DO anything with them? I never could.
@Level 5 Android 2.1 on my Diamond does allow data, and most features do work. Battery drain is still an issue, although if, like me, it is no longer your primary phone, this is not an issue. Dual booting + BB on the other hand, means my old phone has many happy ours of tinkerage left in it.
@Level 5
Camera, GPS, and Bluetooth still don't work. Though GPS doesn't work particularly well on the Fuze anyway. I never use Bluetooth so I really don't care, but I do miss the camera.
Regardless, if you can live with those three things and the occasional lock up, you can live with Android on a daily basis as the main OS. I did it for a week before I got sick of trying to drag things on a resistive screen.
I suppose it doesn't matter, I gave up the Touch Pro for a Nexus One 5 weeks ago. I can kinda blame the Android port for all of that, I liked the Android ports on my Mogul and Touch Pro so much that it make me want to mess with actual Android devices, and when the Nexus came out, I had to have one.
Sold the Touch Pro for $100, not a bad deal really.
@Level 5
My Touch Pro is running Android just fine. GPS, Data, etc all work. I can use the Nav app for audible turn by turn.
It does drain my battery really quickly though. Probably get 5-6 hours of use (checking email, browsing) before it needs a charge.
I love having the ability to choose the OS of my liking for a specific task. If I'm just checking emails and doing some casual web browsing then Android is a nice alternative.
@bjsguess
Kinda curious, a friend of mine still has his Sprint CDMA Touch Pro, are you on CDMA or GSM? I have a friend who might be interested in the CDMA port, I've almost convinced him to try it.
I see what you're saying about having choice but in my case, I need a phone that does simple things quickly and easily, does not crash, is thin enough to pocket within a case and has a 3.5mm jack. The Touch Pro unfortunately was none of those things for me (with and without 6.5 roms). Rebooting my TP was enough of a pain in the ass when it crashed, I can't really imagine doing it all the time to switch OS's.
Um... Why? What is the point? If someone really wants a RIM device, then wouldn't it be easier to just go get one? I am no fan of winmo, but from my experience winmo does more better (except daily reboots) than any RIM device anyway.
@kobioshi
So basically you've never used a BB?
@(Unverified)
You're calling the HTC HD2 a piece of crap....
I may not like windows mobile as much as I do Android and WebOS, but HD2 is an incredibly awesome phone.
Can't wait to test it on my Xperia.
@Drybones5
Stock WinMo may be ugly as sin, but with TouchFLO/Sense, its currently my favorite mobile OS. It still isn't the prettiest, but its functional as all get out.
That said, I haven't spent as much time in Android as I have WinMo, so it could just be a comfort factor, but I love WinMo. The hardware (HD2 aside) just isn't there for me.
omg! "perfectly good WinMo phone", never thought i would read that on this site lol
If they could put this on Android that would make them useful for corporate environments.... Right now Android supports active-sync and not well enough(policies) to be used in most companies.
you can already drop android on a samsung omnia....its called andromnia
so much for the fuze
Wait,,, there's a perfectly good winmo phone?