Comment on Geeksphone launches the first multi OS smartphoneComments−sergiotapia12yCan anyone shed some light, I've never heard of Geeksphone.Can you use Android, and iOS and Windows 8 on it? If so I can see why people would want to buy one.−mcpherrinm12yYou probably can't use any proprietary OS on it: Apple certainly would never license iOS, and I doubt W8 would either.Android, Ubuntu Mobile, Firefox OS, Meego, Tizen are more likely candidates.−ForHackernews12yWindows 8 runs on commodity x86 hardware. Assuming there's driver support, it should work.−TazeTSchnitzel12yPhones aren't commodity x86 hardware in the way PCs are. The hardware can't be enumerated.−leoc12yCan you buy a licence to run it legally though?−poloniculmov12yWindows 8? Yeah. You can't buy Windows Phone 8.−talklittle12yThey are one of the producers of Firefox OS developer phones. ZTE being another one.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeeksPhone
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Can anyone shed some light, I've never heard of Geeksphone.
Can you use Android, and iOS and Windows 8 on it? If so I can see why people would want to buy one.
You probably can't use any proprietary OS on it: Apple certainly would never license iOS, and I doubt W8 would either.
Android, Ubuntu Mobile, Firefox OS, Meego, Tizen are more likely candidates.
Windows 8 runs on commodity x86 hardware. Assuming there's driver support, it should work.
Phones aren't commodity x86 hardware in the way PCs are. The hardware can't be enumerated.
Can you buy a licence to run it legally though?
Windows 8? Yeah. You can't buy Windows Phone 8.
They are one of the producers of Firefox OS developer phones. ZTE being another one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeeksPhone