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Will there ever be Hackiphones? - pinkoos - 10-05-2011
I'm not talking about the cheap(er) Chinese knock-offs/clones that physically mimic the iPhone but are either running some version of Android or some other OS and that you can find at your local Hong Kong Market.
I'm talking about non-Apple hardware running genuine iOS.
Why haven't we seen this yet? I'm guessing it's some kind of limitation built into the chip or something.
Someone more techie than me please enlighten us.
Thanks.
Re: Will there ever be Hackiphones? - Chakravartin - 10-05-2011
http://osxdaily.com/2011/02/24/iphone-ios-on-meizu-m8/
Sorry. 'Just noticed the comment that indicates that it's a fake.
Re: Will there ever be Hackiphones? - decay - 10-05-2011
or the opposite: install Android Froyo on your iPhone!
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/10/bootlace-lets-you-install-froyo-on-your-iphone-without-a-compute/
http://www.androidcentral.com/install-froyo-your-iphone-2g-or-3g-without-computer-bootlace
Re: Will there ever be Hackiphones? - C(-)ris - 10-05-2011
No. iPhone OS runs on the Apple A chips. Apple makes them, no one else can physically get the hardware to even try and get iOS to run on something else. There is no way to engineer the software to run on a different platform without the source code.
Re: Will there ever be Hackiphones? - pinkoos - 10-05-2011
C(-)ris wrote:
No. iPhone OS runs on the Apple A chips. Apple makes them, no one else can physically get the hardware to even try and get iOS to run on something else. There is no way to engineer the software to run on a different platform without the source code.
Ah, okay. Makes sense. Thanks.
Re: Will there ever be Hackiphones? - Will Collier - 10-05-2011
C(-)ris wrote:
No. iPhone OS runs on the Apple A chips. Apple makes them, no one else can physically get the hardware to even try and get iOS to run on something else. There is no way to engineer the software to run on a different platform without the source code.
Well, I can imagine a software emulator for the A5... but the processing overhead would probably make it operationally useless.
More interesting question: will Apple ever migrate actual Macs away from Intel to the A-chips, and thus kill Hackintoshes?
Re: Will there ever be Hackiphones? - Chakravartin - 10-05-2011
C(-)ris wrote:
No. iPhone OS runs on the Apple A chips. Apple makes them, no one else can physically get the hardware to even try and get iOS to run on something else. There is no way to engineer the software to run on a different platform without the source code.
'Not true. You just need a DRC and the appropriate drivers. It's been done in the past for several OSes. You might recall that the old Virtual Gamestation software and several Windows emulators were made without access to source code.
Re: Will there ever be Hackiphones? - space-time - 10-05-2011
C(-)ris wrote:
No. iPhone OS runs on the Apple A chips. Apple makes them, no one else can physically get the hardware to even try and get iOS to run on something else. There is no way to engineer the software to run on a different platform without the source code.
what about iPod Touch? I believe those still use an ARM processor, which should be available for other companies to buy as well.
Re: Will there ever be Hackiphones? - decay - 10-05-2011
an iPod touch isn't a phone.
Re: Will there ever be Hackiphones? - silvarios - 10-06-2011
space-time wrote: what about iPod Touch? I believe those still use an ARM processor, which should be available for other companies to buy as well.
All iOS devices use ARM processors.