[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] DeathmonkeyGTX:
Alright, I read all 20 pages of that and I'll be damned if there weren't a ****load of repeated queries. I lurk almost infinitely more often than I post, but I do have a couple question that I didn't see.

I saw something about a Haret-like dual booting awesomeness for your phone, and it was written off as being stupid because it's a Linux bootloader for your phone. However, I'm not aware of any other ways to dual boot with one's WinMo phone without Haret, so it makes sense that somebody would think of dual bootin' and associate it with Haret. I've never used it because I don't want Google knowin' who I call (their gmail ads creep me out enough already).

I'm not really interested in Android until Garmin Mobile XT or something like it with Navteq maps works with it. I swear piracy is for the win. My question is if I wait for a hardware qwerty slider that preferably tilts like my Kaiser and Rhodium do (skipped Raphael) that specs out nicely and runs WinMo 7 to be

available through AT$T for ~$500 USD unsubsidized (I like my bill not increasing when I have my service shut off) AND made properly un-stock here and some of my favorite cooks have churned out some stable/epic ROM's, will I be able to dual boot 6.5.5 and this newfangled Metro bull****? The initial reasoning behind my first plunking down the equivalent of a Recession Special desktop included the real keyboard (fu*k T9 and predictive text bull****) and the fact that it's very much a computer/PDA with a phone in it rather than a phone. I thought that was cool, and that was before Wizard Mobile 6 was a big deal. So, do the powers that be think that it'll be possible to not just flash from microSDHC or their internal storage bull**** (more about that in the next paragraph), but to drop back to 6.5.5 via something like the GRUB for PC's or emulation (shouldn't be hard @ 1.3GHz...) in such a way as to be able to use cab's and learning curve that I've already somewhat mastered? I'm still iffy on this Metro UI and no more cabs/only marketplace BS/they don't make Garmin anymore and you have to pirate it :p, and running 6.5.5 with REAL video drivers that support more than mp4/maybe some good N64 or PlayStation action on my phone, the ability to use Verizon or AT$T, and be cruising at 1+GHz with a real keyboard sounds ****ing cool and worth $500.

Now for the second question. I know hot-swappable microSDHC isn't supported, but that makes me wonder what kind of flash chip it is that they're using and if I can replace it with a tiny screwdriver kit and;

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171444&Tpk=SDHC

That'd be 64 gigs of crap on my phone, aka a nice chunk of my FLAC collection. I wouldn't mind if the sucker wasn't hot swappable if they've got a full-sized SDXC card in there. Anybody know exactly how they're doing bulk local storage/if I'll be able to stuff the biggest SDXC card in there as they come down the pipe/get cheaper? Also, when it becomes feasible to cram 64 or 128 gigs of crap on my phone without keeping up with different tiny pieces of NAND flash I'd like to start a bounty pot at $100 USD for a WinMo 7 (or 6.5.5 if it can do the full-sized SDXC trick, too) for a cab or cab equivalent that installs a .flac player that is superbly finger friendly, intuitive, has at least a 10 (preferably 24) band equalizer, can adjust preamp with a nice GUI (like G-Alarm and Nitrogen) and is at least 1/4 as customizable as foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org). The day my phone can be serviceable GPS, phone, tether box, uberMP3 player/.flac player with dozens of gigabytes of .flacs, decent pocket-borne Internet, better remote desktop with LTE, that will be awesome. If the digital scale app ever happens, it will be cooler than 99% of apps and I'll donate the price of a good scale for it.

I know that was verbose, but I'm almost completely ignorant of WinMo 7 and how it will work. I do know that cabs are now xap's or something like that, you can't flash this to a damned phone because it's x86 instead of ARM, and I'm still iffy on Metro UI. I'm about to dl the emulator and that ROM and investigate.