http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/ Engadget Comments for Ubuntu hits HTC's Touch Pro2, is any Windows Mobile handset safe? (video) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
But can it make internets?]]>Mar 9th 2010 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Nope, the exe is actually a rebooter that reboots it into the alternative OS. Once it's in Ubuntu, it's just Ubuntu until you reboot again.]]>Mar 9th 2010 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/BRO IM NEW ON ALL THIS I SAW THE VIDEO AND LOOKS COOL, BUT IF I INSTALL THIS UBUNTU INTO THE TP2 FROM TMOBILE AFTER THE REBOOT THE PHONE GOES BACK TO WINDOWS, AND CAN I INSTAL THE UBUNTU INTO THE MICRO SD OR HAS TO GO IN THE MAIN MEMORY THANKS]]>Mar 10th 2010 11:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
Now if you add a small USB-Keyboard...

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/mios-tegra-powered-moov-v780-puts-maps-720p-video-and-the-int/]]>Mar 9th 2010 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Oh... Come... On... .... REALLY?

After ALL of the BITCHING that people do about how you HAVE to use a stylus on a WM phone, you're excited about THIS?! Look at those tiny-a$$ UI controls!

Where are the "it's-not-touch-friendly" zealots when you need them?]]>Mar 9th 2010 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/I bet ubuntu netbook remix would take care of your problem]]>Mar 9th 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Doubtful. As has been bloviated about on this site, a phone's UI is more than its homescreen. The whole OS would need an overhaul to get rid of a stylus/make certain controls usable on a small device.

Read: Apps must be designed with touch/phone in mind or they will suck.]]>Mar 9th 2010 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
I'm excited. I wanted a Linux on the TP2, and I use Ubuntu on 2 machines. You can increase the size of all the UI components, he just hasn't done so. I hope he included that functionality in the EXE because I will try it.]]>Mar 9th 2010 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://bit.ly/mytouch-slide-qwerty-first-reactions]]>Mar 9th 2010 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Yes, it is silly to use the full Gnome desktop on a mobile phone. Netbook Remix would work much-much better with this screen size.

It is still pretty amazing, especially how snappy the application starts are.]]>Mar 10th 2010 7:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Well I gave this a try last night. Threw the package on my 16GB MicroSD card. It actually ran pretty well considering it's meant for a real computer. Obviously not much of the hardware works now (pretty much just the screen and keyboard at this point, actually). And it did eventually freeze up after a while, when I was trying to access one of the toolbar menus in the word processor. I think I was just trying to do too much at once. But still, it's a good start. If they can get this running smoothly and with full hardware support, I may make this a regular part of my phone.]]>Mar 10th 2010 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
That could happen on XDA, Windows Mobile slowly being fazed out for android and soon probably Windows Phone 7 Series on the site currently]]>Mar 9th 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
As long as Android will be around and old handsets with WinMo6, XDA will be around.

I also see XDA commandeering WinMo7 at some point.]]>Mar 9th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
that's one relentless calendar app in ubuntu]]>Mar 10th 2010 5:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
astera li
http://www.mitph.com]]>Mar 9th 2010 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
Really awesome, imagine Windows 7 on an HD2]]>Mar 9th 2010 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
Word, that would be sick!]]>Mar 9th 2010 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
It would be a lot harder to use than this is. Even with the larger screen, controlling a desktop OS with capacitive touch would be a bitch, especially when it came to using an on screen keyboard. I suppose with one of those weird styli it might be bearable]]>Mar 9th 2010 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
Windows 7 would have to be ported to ARM first.]]>Mar 9th 2010 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/BTW...on the TP2 you can now triple boot Windows Mobile, Android, and Ubuntu. So frankly, all the Windows Mobile handset haters can eat it, because WinMo phones still have the most dorky power-users ready to make the phones do wonderful things they were never "meant" to do. ]]>Mar 9th 2010 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
Imagine Android on the HD2]]>Mar 9th 2010 9:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Triple boot! ok I'm sure this is common knowledge somewhere - but serious question--why can't the iPhone OS be ported if they can manage all these other OS's? Hackinphone? ]]>Mar 9th 2010 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
maybe i just have really good eyes, but i can read the text just fine... and this is looking at a screen within a screen within a screen]]>Mar 9th 2010 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
Yo dawg, I heard you like screens...]]>Mar 9th 2010 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
lol, good call]]>Mar 9th 2010 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
This actually looks quite annoying, though. It looks laggy and slow and everything's super small. I'm not sure people would really use this once the novelty factor wore off.]]>Mar 9th 2010 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
It becomes a little more useful if you can use the tv out feature of the TP2]]>Mar 9th 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/What's the big deal about the font size. It doesn't have to be _exactly_ like it was in the video. If this works, you just install Ubuntu Netbook Remix for a small(er) screen optimized Ubuntu experience. If that's still too small, you just jack up the font sizes. Once you get something that works, just roll it all into the exe and distribute so no one else has to customize it themselves again.

And by "you", I mean the incredibly badass cats on XDA.]]>Mar 9th 2010 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Is there any Skype on Ubuntu? Can you pair Ubuntu (within the phone) to a router?

No, seriously, can you? Someone try that!]]>Mar 9th 2010 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/
I'm afraid that E-ten stayed out of the Android-party. But time will tell.]]>Mar 9th 2010 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/ubuntu-hits-htcs-touch-pro2-is-any-windows-mobile-handset-safe/Mar 9th 2010 10:02AM