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Windows 10 Ported To OnePlus 6T Smartphone (androidpolice.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Qualcomm has been building laptop processors for a while now, designed for always-on Windows 10 ultraportables. Now that an ARM version of Windows 10 is widely available and works with Snapdragon processors, the gates have opened for porting the operating system to smartphones. @NTAuthority on Twitter already demoed Windows 10 on a Pixel 3 XL, but now they have ported it to the OnePlus 6T. In a series of tweets and replies, NTAuthority showed off the touchscreen working, with many applications (including Google Chrome) fully functional. The most impressive demo was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 running on the phone, using Windows' built-in x86 emulation compatibility layer.

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  1. I would not buy/use by oldgraybeard · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    a device that has Windows 10 as it's operating system.

    Just my 2 cents ;)

    1. Re:I would not buy/use by ArchieBunker · · Score: 1

      WalMart was dumping Windows phones a few years ago, a $100 Nokia for $19.95 I bought one to play around with and truthfully it was pretty nice. For a low end phone the interface was responsive and the few available apps ran just fine. Long term I don't know how they held up but it was nicer than a lot of cheap Android phones.

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  2. Why? by Zorro · · Score: 1

    Really WHY!

    1. Re:Why? by williamyf · · Score: 2

      As sir edmund hilary said: "Because it was there".

      Hackers like to hack.

      Remember the demoscene, or doom runing on the touchbar, or linux on a toaster?

      The guys doing this earn an inherent satisfaction of being able to "Just do it".

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  3. Hopefully Intel won't follow through on threats by SB5407 · · Score: 2

    I hope that Intel doesn't go and try to screw this up by suing like they threatened to.

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/09/intel_sends_arm_a_shot_across_bow/

    https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3011638/qualcomm-responds-to-intels-rant-about-x86-emulation-on-arm

    1. Re:Hopefully Intel won't follow through on threats by radarskiy · · Score: 1

      Turns out, even Intel has been emulating x86 for the past 24 years.

  4. Great news by goombah99 · · Score: 1

    As much as Microsoft earned it's negative reputation among some folks, the alternative-- Google only-- is far worse. Microsoft only got out of hand when they monopolized. Competition is the antiseptic. Hopefully google can be rescued from evil.

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  5. Show us on the doll... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    ...where Clippy and Microsoft Bob touched you.

  6. So... a Windows Phone? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 2

    So they basically re-invented the Windows Phone? How well did that go before?

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  7. They didn't get the memo by Arkus · · Score: 1

    Windows RT already failed on ARM.

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  8. But doesn't OnePlus also "spy" on users as well? by ZoomieDood · · Score: 2

    Who wins that race? Or is it being joined together?

    See https://www.howtogeek.com/3401... and https://elgan.com/blog/why-i-d...

    So, now we get Microsoft's public telemetry info being sucked from Windows 10 machines or phone-based platforms? http://investmentwatchblog.com... which includes:
    - Typed text on keyboard sent every 30 minutes
    - Transmits anything you say into a microphone
    - Transcripts of things you say while using Cortana
    - Index of all media files on your computer
    - When your webcam is first enabled, 35mb of data
    - Telemetry data

    I'm a OnePlus phone owner (prior to all of this being disclosed), but even I'm considering not getting another one. I can't begin to imagine piling Windows 10 on top of it!

  9. All very pointless by DrXym · · Score: 1

    Who wants a version of Windows that doesn't run Windows software?

  10. BootCamp on ARM Macs by williamyf · · Score: 1

    This comes to exemplify what whas obvious for anyone with a modicum of computing knowledge.

    If/when the Mac goes to ARM, it would be trivialy easy, from the technical point of view, to develop a version of Windows for ARM for said Mac computers.

    The complicated part will be to make the Three companies agree, Namely Apple (to develop ARM bootcamp and ARM Windows Drivers), Microsoft (to adapt the OS if needed), and Qualcomm (they may have some intelectual property on parts of this windows for ARM thing, especially the X86-32 emulation bits).

    Other than that, easy peasy!

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  11. Dual booting by macraig · · Score: 2

    So does this mean that dual-booting both Windows 10 and Android on a smartphone is realistically possible?

    1. Re: Dual booting by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 1

      Windows Services for Linux, as originally invisaged, would have run Android inside a container. But that was too hard, so MS partnered with Canonical to get Ubuntu running.

      It would then behove this hacker community to get Anbox running inside WSL - Android apps on your Windows phone! :)

    2. Re:Dual booting by SeaFox · · Score: 1

      Better question: Would anyone really want to?

  12. yawn by Locutus · · Score: 1

    No even close to a Beowulf cluster so pretty worthless.

    Besides, Windows being ported to X, Y or Z is not new. It's been done for a couple of decades at the very least. It just always sucks. Does this one suck less? Probably not.

    LoB

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