• From: Indiana, USA
  • Registered: Feb 28, 2007
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Re: What is RedGear?

Programs such as Opera will give warning and error messages when installed before RedGear is installed. However, RedGear may be installed either before or after other programs and still take effect.

My guess is that Age of Empires will not work very well with this prerelease, but I haven't tried it. To try it, you would also need GAPI from wincesoft.de. Future versions of RedGear will have their own GAPI included for running games.

  • From: Indiana, USA
  • Registered: Feb 28, 2007
  • Posts: 189

Re: What is RedGear?

RedGear is something like an operating system upgrade, not a browser. Please check Opera's site for browser capabilities, such as foreign language support, video streaming, etc.

  • Registered: Sep 8, 2008
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Re: What is RedGear?

I know that RedGear is for ARM-based CE 3.0 (HPC2000) devices, but I was wondering if it would work with the NEC Mobilepro 790, runs CE 3.0 but has a MIPS processor.

Thanks.

~FS

  • From: Indiana, USA
  • Registered: Feb 28, 2007
  • Posts: 189

Re: What is RedGear?

Thank you for your interest. The current release is for HPC2000 ARM only. However, other platforms such as MIPS (and perhaps SH3) will be supported, perhaps as early as v1.0. Note, however, that SH3/MIPS will only have PocketPC 2000 applications available to run with RedGear, since that is when the platform stopped using those processors. (Opera doesn't sell an end-user browser for MIPS, for example...)

  • Registered: Oct 30, 2008
  • Posts: 2

Re: What is RedGear?

Any plans to port RedGear to WinCE 2.11 ARM? Devices like the Jornada 820 are dead-ended with respect to browsers and PIE 3.0 is pretty much useless. Please say that it is possible and in the plans for development!

  • From: Indiana, USA
  • Registered: Feb 28, 2007
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Re: What is RedGear?

It may be possible to port to CE 2.11, but the only real target is Jornada 820; it is the only common CE 2.11 device that used an ARM processor, so it is the only one that can take advantage of PPC2002/WM2003 software. The number of Jornada 820 users is rather small, but nevertheless we'll see if this happens or not.

  • Registered: Oct 30, 2008
  • Posts: 2

Re: What is RedGear?

Hi Kirk and thanks for the reply. Not knowing the work involved but totally understanding the return on investment point of view. Another way to look at it is you have a totally captive market with any 820 users out there. The limited user base is probably why there were no other browsers developed for this platform. Unfortunately, I haven't a gauge on how many users there still are but they have to number in the thousands worldwide. And if you were able to get to them somehow with advertising, I'm sure most would be interested depending on the cost of the software. It is a nice little package with the instant-on feature, good sized keyboard, and CF/PCMIA slots. I can connect to WIFI and use it mainly for email right now and a few websites that I can still render correctly. It has the 128-bit SSL but lacks the ability to hack the registry to make IE look even like 4.0. Even that would help but we can't do that. With that said, thanks alot for even considering it. If it would help, I could gauge the interest over at hpcfactor....