[ale] repurposing an Android device

[Jim Philips]

Yeah. If this goes forward, I'll have to sit down with a developer or two
and try to get a decent projection for level of effort. Right now, it's just
me and a couple of guys brainstorming.

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mbt at zest.trausch.us>wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 08:24 -0400, Jim Philips wrote:
> > I had thought about the Nokia N900 too.
> >
> > When I say "repurposed" I mean something like kiosk mode on a desktop.
> > It would have limited functions from the user side.
>
> If you replace the Home screen process with something that is hard-coded
> to only launch a specific set of activities, and handle all of the
> activities that are launched via various events from the phone network
> and so forth, yes, you should be able to do that.  You can get the
> source for the whole stack and build a custom firmware yourself and do
> those things.
>
> As to how *easy* it would be, I don't know.  But it is possible.
>
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