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The latest version works fine on my x86 phone with Android 5.

by scaladev 6y ago

jldl805 6y ago
Why do you live your life like this?!?
- molasses 6y ago
  I get this. I have a low spec phone by today's standards, and it has android 10, it is pretty useless practically. It is pretty much stock. And I would gladly go back some versions for speed hikes.
brundolf 6y ago
> x86 phone Sorry, what? I think I need to know more...
- GranPC 6y ago
  Possibly something like an Asus ZenFone 2 (ZE551ML) which has an Intel Atom processor, and a binary translator to run ARM code, for compatibility reasons.
  - brundolf 6y ago
    That's wild. Why would they make something like that? Does it dual-boot Windows or something?
    - sgerenser 6y ago
      There was a period (back in 2016 or so?) where Intel was really gunning for the phone space with their Atom SoCs. I imagine they gave very good deals to Asus to put them into their products (undoubtedly large “marketing support” dollars were involved). Alas the lack of progress on Intel’s side combined with the utter domination of ARM basically killed Intel’s hopes at the phone CPU market.
      - usr1106 6y ago
        > There was a period (back in 2016 or so?) where Intel was really gunning for the phone space with their Atom SoCs. The whole Meego project (Nokia + Intel, 2009 from the top of my head) was founded with the goal of getting Intel phones. When Nokia jumped ship in February 2011, Intel still continued and hired Nokia engineers to make phones. How long they tried, I have no idea.
    - scaladev 6y ago
      Desktop Windows won't run there directly (but works just fine virtualized under qemu, I should add). It's a pretty typical all-in-one SoC, but with an x86 core: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/75203/intel-atom-processor-z2520-1m-cache-1-20-ghz.html https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/75203/i... But I can copy statically linked binaries from my main Linux machine, and they work. (Dynamically linked typically don't because Android userspace is so different from "proper" Linux.)
  - rock_artist 5y ago
    It was actually a good beast at the time. And was subsidized so it was cheap for the specs.

The latest version works fine on my x86 phone with Android 5.

jldl805 6y ago

Why do you live your life like this?!?

molasses 6y ago
I get this. I have a low spec phone by today's standards, and it has android 10, it is pretty useless practically. It is pretty much stock. And I would gladly go back some versions for speed hikes.

brundolf 6y ago

> x86 phone Sorry, what? I think I need to know more...

GranPC 6y ago
Possibly something like an Asus ZenFone 2 (ZE551ML) which has an Intel Atom processor, and a binary translator to run ARM code, for compatibility reasons.
- brundolf 6y ago
  That's wild. Why would they make something like that? Does it dual-boot Windows or something?
  - sgerenser 6y ago
    There was a period (back in 2016 or so?) where Intel was really gunning for the phone space with their Atom SoCs. I imagine they gave very good deals to Asus to put them into their products (undoubtedly large “marketing support” dollars were involved). Alas the lack of progress on Intel’s side combined with the utter domination of ARM basically killed Intel’s hopes at the phone CPU market.
    - usr1106 6y ago
      > There was a period (back in 2016 or so?) where Intel was really gunning for the phone space with their Atom SoCs. The whole Meego project (Nokia + Intel, 2009 from the top of my head) was founded with the goal of getting Intel phones. When Nokia jumped ship in February 2011, Intel still continued and hired Nokia engineers to make phones. How long they tried, I have no idea.
  - scaladev 6y ago
    Desktop Windows won't run there directly (but works just fine virtualized under qemu, I should add). It's a pretty typical all-in-one SoC, but with an x86 core: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/75203/intel-atom-processor-z2520-1m-cache-1-20-ghz.html https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/75203/i... But I can copy statically linked binaries from my main Linux machine, and they work. (Dynamically linked typically don't because Android userspace is so different from "proper" Linux.)
- rock_artist 5y ago
  It was actually a good beast at the time. And was subsidized so it was cheap for the specs.