Desktops on cell phones: X-Windows comes to Android
Mon, Feb 23rd, 2009
The Android G1 and the iPhone do not initially seem like ideal desktop computing platforms. They are small, with limited screen space and compromised keyboards. And yet both of them are running fully capable Unix solutions under their hoods. So it's not unthinkable that you could deploy traditional windows-icon-menu-pointer (WIMP) desktops onto these devices, understanding the compromises involved.
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