{"id":335,"date":"2010-01-24T14:40:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T19:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/?p=335"},"modified":"2010-01-24T14:45:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T19:45:01","slug":"android-dual-boot-could-make-nokia-n900-jack-of-two-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/android-dual-boot-could-make-nokia-n900-jack-of-two-trades\/","title":{"rendered":"Android dual-boot could make Nokia N900 jack of two trades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/n900-android-boot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-336\" title=\"n900-android-boot\" src=\"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/n900-android-boot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/n900-android-boot.jpg 600w, https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/n900-android-boot-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maemo&#8217;s already pretty open as open platforms go, but what&#8217;s better than a single open platform on your open phone? Two open platforms, of course, creating a vortex of pure, unadulterated openness the likes of which the world has never seen. Hacking is par for the course with Nokia&#8217;s N900, so it comes as no surprise to see that a motivated individual has managed to get his unit set up in a trick dual-boot configuration with Maemo on internal storage and Android on a separate partition loaded from the microSD card. He says it&#8217;s &#8220;proof of concept&#8221; for the moment &#8212; but to steal his words, &#8220;its [sic] real and it could be spectacular.&#8221; We couldn&#8217;t agree more, and as much as Nokia loves its own code, we can&#8217;t help but think this precisely the sort of tinkering the N900 was made for. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yri4qOfP8T0&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yri4qOfP8T0&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogsmithmedia.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/post_label_source.gif\" alt=\"source\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.broberts.com\/nokia-n900-with-maemo-and-android-yes-please\">Brandon&#8217;s  Posterous<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maemo&#8217;s already pretty open as open platforms go, but what&#8217;s better than a single open platform on your open phone? Two open platforms, of course, creating a vortex of pure, unadulterated openness the likes of which the world has never seen. Hacking is par for the course with Nokia&#8217;s N900, so it comes as no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,154],"tags":[36,326,327,317,328,329,330,331,83],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handhelds","category-wireless","tag-android","tag-dual-boot","tag-dualboot","tag-hack","tag-maemo","tag-maemo-5","tag-maemo5","tag-n900","tag-nokia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}