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.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbt@zest.trausch.us">mbt@zest.trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 08:24 -0400, Jim Philips wrote:<br>
> I had thought about the Nokia N900 too.<br>
><br>
> When I say "repurposed" I mean something like kiosk mode on a desktop.<br>
> It would have limited functions from the user side.<br>
<br>
</div>If you replace the Home screen process with something that is hard-coded<br>
to only launch a specific set of activities, and handle all of the<br>
activities that are launched via various events from the phone network<br>
and so forth, yes, you should be able to do that. You can get the<br>
source for the whole stack and build a custom firmware yourself and do<br>
those things.<br>
<br>
As to how *easy* it would be, I don't know. But it is possible.<br>
<br>
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