I think the apps in Android are customized for handheld devices. I think the screen size is another limitation.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Andrew Hays <[email protected]> wrote: > I suppose, in theory, though, in the future, we may be able to install > like... Ubuntu 9.04 on a phone, but maybe not the latest version, since it > would be made to work with the latest computer tech. > ------------------ > http://andrewhays.net > http://ashays.livejournal.com > > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:01 PM, lbcoder <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Interesting idea. >> Sure. I suppose you could. In fact, you can right now! This phone is a >> LOT more powerful than a lot of the desktop computers I had up to >> about a decade ago. >> >> Thing is this; >> Your current full fledged desktop distro advances along with the state >> of the art. Phone hardware, being smaller, will ALWAYS be several >> steps behind, so when the time comes that your phone is as powerful as >> your *current* desktop computer, the full fledged desktop distro won't >> be much good to run on anything less than 5THz with 5TB of RAM... see >> the problem? >> >> The other issue is the screen size. In fact, in my opinion, that is >> the really big issue. Your desktop distro is optimized for a MUCH >> larger screen. As painful as it would be to use Android as your >> primary desktop OS, it would be MUCH MUCH MUCH worse to try to fit >> openoffice + firefox concurrently within your phone's display. >> >> And FYI: C# no since that is MS/MONO crapola, but Java+PHP+etc., would >> be fine within android almost as is... look up debian install for >> 'droid. The main limitation there is RAM. >> >> On Sep 27, 7:09 am, Em <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'm noticing that smartphones are becoming more powerful and will soon >> > have the processing power of a laptop computer. When this happens >> > wouldn't it be more suitable to have a fully-fledged OS on them? If I >> > could have a phone with Ubuntu on it I could finally put all my Java, >> > C#, PHP apps on there and not have to worry about re-writing them or >> > waiting for someone to port them over. If people still prefer >> > Android, thats great, but why can't it be part of the OS as a >> > framework? >> >> > > > > -- Regards, Michael Leung http://www.itblogs.info http://www.michaelleung.info --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
