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hi
i want to know if anybody tried to instal windows xp or 98se ot a pocketpc or a smartphone. is it possible? i am planning to buy a i-mate 6150 and it has fast processor a nvidia 5500 grafik card ,128mb ram and an xga out. so if ti can;t be done what are the limitations? thanks in advance
windows xp is for computers, windows mobile is for pocket pcs...where are you gonna put the windows xp installation disc?...shove it in the storage card slot? haha just playin bud, no you cant install windows xp on a ppc, but windows mobile is just like xp, except its just mobile and without alot of the whistles.
You would have to create an emulator to run any desktop Windows version on the WM device since the processors used for mobile devices do not have native versions of the desktop OS. There are some DOS emulators out there (such as PocketDOS) but I have not heard of anyone getting a Windows session actually functioning on it. The resource demands are just too high even with Windows 9x. If you have enough RAM, you might be able to create a stripped-down version of an old Windows version (like Win95 or Win98) using software like 95Lite (I tthink that was its name) that allows a user to create a minimal install for PCs with less-than-optimal resources, but even then I doubt that you could actually run a desktop app on top of any version of desktop Windows loaded into a DOS-emulation session. The device CPU would be overwhelmed and even if it did load, it would run so slowly that you would grow old waiting for the simplest commands to execute.
If you want desktop Windows in a very small device, you will need to look at the very expensive option of an ultraportable running real XP.
windows xp is for computers, windows mobile is for pocket pcs...where are you gonna put the windows xp installation disc?...shove it in the storage card slot? haha just playin bud, no you cant install windows xp on a ppc, but windows mobile is just like xp, except its just mobile and without alot of the whistles.
yes you are right but wm6 i think doesnot support an external usb dvd writer or hdd or even a usbflash which is a pitty. it doesnot have the usb flexibility of an xp
If you want windowsXP get a real computer, you dufus
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i am trying to figer out why it cannot be done when we had the hardware, why nobody tried to create a dvd writing software for a pocket pc for example?
Actually, very few of the models out there have the wiring for USB host functions; most are wired only for USB client use. Toshiba and Fujitsu models were built for both client and host USB and new devices with USB OTG are also host-ready, but most devices are wired only as USB clients. That hurdle is not something that can be solved by software or drivers. If the device's USB port is not wired to serve the host function it does not matter what OS is loaded. With so few devices capable of making the required connection there has been little reason for drivers to be written and USB is the way that these external devices would be connected. So in reality, we really do not have the required hardware in most cases since most carry WM devices that cannot act as USB hosts and that is something that loading XP on a handheld will not correct.
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