Why U.S. Galaxy S Phones run Android 2.1

Re:Why U.S. Galaxy S Phones run Android 2.1 by ergo98 on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @02:50PM (#2117089)

I have no idea how the Windows Phone 7 dev kit works, however with CE it literally was configuring some flags and resources, and that was it.

Microsoft did a tonne of heavy lifting to make it so. There were boxed in drivers for virtually everything, and customization was absolutely minimal.

And when you bought a MotoQ, it was stock CE.

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Re:Why U.S. Galaxy S Phones run Android 2.1 by akgerber on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @10:55PM (#2118520)

All current Windows Phone 7 devices are restricted to the Qualcomm QSD8x50 platform, so there isn't much customization to be done as the hardware is nearly the same for every vendor.

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Re:Why U.S. Galaxy S Phones run Android 2.1 by quanticle on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @05:02PM (#2117582)

As far as I understand it, Windows Phone 7's API is Silverlight with a few restrictions related to screen size and the like.

I haven't coded anything for Windows CE, but making a Silverlight app for Windows Phone 7 is about a difficult as making a WCF app for Windows, or an ASP.Net app for the web.

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Re:Why U.S. Galaxy S Phones run Android 2.1 by bokchoi on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @07:56PM (#2118102)

Why was this downvoted?

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Re:Why U.S. Galaxy S Phones run Android 2.1 by akgerber on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @10:52PM (#2118513)

It confused the SDK for application developers with the hardware dev kit for OEMs, and was thus off-topic.

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