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Install Windows Phone 7 on an iPod touch?

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VaatiKaiba

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Jun 12, 2008
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Hi all,

Right, I'm not very hacker-y myself, but I do think that WP7 looks like a really interesting OS, and I'd love to try it out - except that I have a perfectly good iPhone, and I'm not really willing to splash out €500+ on another phone. So, is it possible to install it on my 2nd Gen iPod Touch?

Thanks in advance!
 
Android was possible because the source code for the majority of the Android OS is out in the open. So it's possible to modify it without assistance from Google. The part that takes a long time and is a lot of work is reverse-engineering the iPhone and iPod touch hardware, and then crafting Android drivers for each piece of hardware that needs to work.

In theory, Windows Phone 7 could be ported to the iPhone and iPod touch. In practice, it will never happen. I'm sure the OS was built to be modular with respect to hardware support given that Microsoft wants a lot of phone manufacturers to use it on a lot of phones, so it has to be flexible and have a hardware abstraction layer of some sort with cross-platform support as well for whatever CPUs phone manufacturers want to use. But those phone manufacturers are paying Microsoft a hefty license fee for the privilege of using their software, and they are surely getting engineering support from them in return, too. Maybe someone can prove me wrong, but I'm guessing that all documentation about crafting WP7 hardware drivers, as well as the software kit necessary to do so, are hidden behind walls of NDAs and other legal red tape, available only to paying customers.

-- Nathan
 
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