Nokia7Linux | # 1 | 2010-06-30, 13:55 | Report

Any chance to port iOS4 to Nokia N900,, ?

It will be cool to run iPhone games on N900 ..,,,

I think it is possible as there are many ROMs of the iOS4 crawling the internet

ysss | # 2 | 2010-06-30, 13:58 | Report

No it's not possible..


...and there are at least half a dozen other threads asking similar question dude... it'd be great if you search first and avoid posting repetitive questions.

Take it easy...

cddiede | # 3 | 2010-06-30, 13:59 | Report

Wouldn't that be like putting a Ford Pinto engine inside a Ferrari?

Why would you want to do this? If you want to play iPhone games, just drop $99 bucks and go buy a Pinto.... I mean iPhone.

BLIZZARD | # 4 | 2010-06-30, 14:01 | Report

That was the answer of a great developer (i love nitdroid dj_steeve) on a very similar question:

"gohan2oo6 (1 month ago)
hey, wont u try making iphone os runing on n900 ? thx

djsteve1030 (1 month ago)
why for one would i want to run crapphone os onm the n900 and 2 its not an open souirce os in the first place, if ya want a unhackable useless heavily restriced os get an iphone no the n900
gohan2oo6"

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Last edited by BLIZZARD; 2010-06-30 at 14:06.

dj_steve | # 5 | 2010-06-30, 14:04 | Report

thats BLIZZARD couldn of said it better myself

U.ser | # 6 | 2010-07-01, 16:05 | Report

Hmmm , you're supposed to upgrade your n900 .. why want to downgrade it ?

the iOS requires multi-touch for it to do its business (including games , apps ********) .. so even if you downgraded your phone , it would be useless

gerbick | # 7 | 2010-07-01, 16:09 | Report

Find a way to emulate the bootrom... possible. You'd also have the most illegal entity besides children hand-rolling you cocaine laced Cuban cigars (if you're in the US, that is).

Descalzo | # 8 | 2010-07-01, 16:31 | Report

I looked into this, based on my previous experience with hackintoshes. Part of the problem is that even though OSX's kernel is open-source, iOS's kernel is not. Also, OSX uses kernel extensions (kexts) to load drivers and stuff, and you could get around that by modifying/adding kexts for your non-Apple hardware. Apple needed kexts so they didn't have to release a different kernel for each and every different Mac they made, with all their various hardware differences. But iPhones are all the same. So are iPod Touches. So are all iPads. Of course, they're not ALL the same, but they have as much identical hardware as they can. This means you can't fiddle with the kext for, say, the GSM radio because it's in the closed-source kernel.

When I realized that the iPhone and iPad have same CPU architecture I also was thinking, "Yay! It's OSx86 all over again!" I mean even if I like it less than Maemo it's still cool. I would have access to more apps, I'd have more choice, I'd have more chances to annoy stupid iPhone fanboys, heck why NOT do it?

But I never even was good at hackintoshing, and the experts say it's not happening.

fahadj2003 | # 9 | 2010-07-01, 16:40 | Report

lol
awesome response :P

lifenexus | # 10 | 2010-07-01, 17:06 | Report

First thing, not possible as its (i can go as far as saying) the most closed software u can find on this plannet.
Second, why whould u downgrade? N900 is meant for mobile computer like functionality. Y would u replace that with half-assed multitasking, lack of BT etc?