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    The official iPhone thread

    Tks,This explains a lot of things a)The OS will run from RAM b)Cache policy will be write through c)ARM-11 has a physical cache and not a Logical cache like Arm-9 cores, this makes task switching quite fast and cache does not need to be flushed for every context switch making application...
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    The official iPhone thread

    The processor is a S3C600 , an ARM-11 based core.I always assumed that a Pxa320 would be powering the iPhone.I have worked with the previous versions of the Samsung Arm9 series and always found it lacking against the Pxa270 series anyways Pxa seried monopoly was going for a long time now and...
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    Microsoft Plans to Revolutionize Interface Technology With "Surface"

    Touch screen by itself is not costly.It I had written many touch screen drivers before and basically speaking most if not all touch screen(s) I have worked with work on the principle of Ohms law.Take a look into the attached image for more info.What I am truly amazed is how the software(driver)...
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    PDA file system hack

    I don't believe that Reshack can be used on a Pocket Pc.Wince just has the look has the look and feel of Windows, The OS and the resource files,API's...etc are totally different from its desktop counterpart. Yes the "The Graphics" aka "the Shell" can be customised,but what is...
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    Pirated Software Per Country

    Where is China ????????
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    Windows Mobile takes on BlackBerry and Symbian

    This is a foregone conclusion, We killed palm OS,RIM is next on the Line and will go the palm way,Linux is to bulky for a mobile device anyway and support tools is crappy at best, Symbian is not threat in the markets we prey anyway. The real fight will be in the feature phone market...
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    Want an iPhone without AT&T, Wait till 2012

    I don't want to answer the first statement since I have far better things to do, if you anything remotely usefull/technical, then bring it up or shutup.I don't belive that you are in a higher pedestrial just because you use apple and want to make steve jobs rich. & for the second...
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    Want an iPhone without AT&T, Wait till 2012

    And shall i also assume that you have looked at the OS-X source tree then ? what a nOOb answer!!!!!!!!!! Listen the architecture which is great for a desktop PC is ill-suited for a Embedded system and is one of the reasons MS wrote the entire source tree for Wince for scratch...
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    IMate SP5M for 11K.... worth buying..??

    (::. On record I develop device drivers on Windows Ce/Mobile and Linux (Yes you heard right) platforms. No Clue what this means, but if you are asking about the applications compatabilty, then a properly wiritten app should run out of the box in all kernel versions. (Then...
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    IMate SP5M for 11K.... worth buying..??

    Sure,I would love to and I beive you had ment Wince 5.0/6.0 and Windows Smartphone. Windows Ce 5.0: This is a componetized hard real time operating system (Like RTLinux,Vx works...etc), which is similar to a set of Lego Boxes.If you want a make a device (say a Thin Client)...
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    IMate SP5M for 11K.... worth buying..??

    I would like to answer this question.Do note that what I am saying is applicable only to Windows Mobile 5.0 & 6.0 (ie magneto and crossbow).What i say may or may not hold true for Photon (Mobile 7.0 or whatever it is called as). In a galaxy long,long away, there was a...
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    Symbian OS vs Windows v5.0 in Handhelds

    And excatly how many symbian based manufactures/phones are out there leaving Nokia and Sony and some other big names, even linux has more makers than symbian. I would like to assume that LAF=Look and Feel.In this case the answer is No, atleast not yet till WinMobile 5.2 (aka WinMobile...
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    Symbian OS vs Windows v5.0 in Handhelds

    Sure they will, but the beauty of WinMobile is that anyone can ( well almost anyone) can make a phone, just like Dell,Hp can assemble a PC running on Windows.If you call innovation as just the UI part,well anyone can play that game can't they ?.Crossbow is just a stop gap.Just look at the...
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    How to convert k750i to w800i?

    B/W any idea on how to display the Cell-Id/Location Id in W800/W810 ? It should be ideally under some N/W settings , but I coudn't find it.
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    C & C++ question

    lol.........you are just too childish....I never accused you of anything.....we were just having a healthy debate...b/w I am a device driver developer with TI with about 4+ years experence and TI generally takes people who do do not know whats is stdio.h :) :) .Stop using deragatory terms like...
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    C & C++ question

    Actually these header files are loaded by deafult by the compiler, but I do accept my compiler compiles both C and C++. No more clarification is that a int86() function or itt86() ? ie You want to access some portion of memory directly by using a pointer. If I get it...
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    C & C++ question

    AFAIK,Printf and scanf are supported in C++...........all my drivers are in C++ but I use printf to display the output. Direct Memory Access ( DMA ) will work in c++, it will work in C and heck it can even work in asm.I am not very sure what you meant in the above...
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    Chinese iPhone knock-off on the way

    This was posted in someblog regarding this phone................and i second everything what this guys says.
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    Microsoft gives up trying and starts blatantly copying...

    My god, the apple fan-boys have nothing else to say about the os and are left with commenting about some Icon usage....how funny (: and tying some icon usage to vista os development .............these kinds of comments can only come from apple fan boys, since as usual they look at...
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    Symbian OS vs Windows v5.0 in Handhelds

    Yes Symbian is the dominant force purely for the sake that It has more market share but from a programmers perspective it is irrelevant. When compared with the actual number of 3rd party apps running on Symbian to WM you will notice that WM is the dominant force. Windows Mobile/Pocket...
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