Everyone seemed to be blogging about a Norwegian developer named Erik Kristiansen who claimed to have developed the bootcamp software for the iPhone, so it could run Windows Mobile on the iPhone. One our readers, Daniel, was also kind enough to send us a link as soon as the story broke out.
Okay, lets not try to figure out why anyone would want to do that on an iPhone but the news was all over the blogosphere.
Thankfully, it turned out to be a hoax, folks at Gear Log have figured out that it is part of a viral marketing campaign from Sonic Emotion, a maker of surround-sound systems for PCs, handhelds, and other things that need surround sound as none of the facts added up.
Here are some of the posts from the blogosphere:
BGR: Windows Mobile hits the iPhone 3G [Link]
Engadget: Windows Mobile ported to iPhone, we think [Link]
Gizmodo: Windows Mobile Running on an iPhone [Link]
To be fair, I would have written about it as well, just that by the
time I started writing this post it was already declared as a hoax by
the folks at Gear Log and most of the blogs have updated the post to inform readers that it was a hoax to confirm it.
Gear Log has provided the following explanation for why they think the video is a hoax:
"The demo supposedly took place at a "myPhone2008" conference in Las Vegas from Sept. 26-28. But according to Nancy Lee at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Association, there was no such show. Events in Las Vegas during that period included the Pirrello/Sprung wedding, the ST/Dystonia Symposium, the Itazuke Alumni Reuinion, the Current Practice of Vascular Ultrasound and the Wealth Dynamics Experience. No "myPhone2008." Sorry.
Also, none of the various people mentioned on the site, except the Sonic Emotion folks, seem to exist. "Serling Technologies" has no Web site, and their fake product, "Twilight Scan," is a pun on the fact that Rod Serling was the host of "The Twilight Zone." "Markus Miller," supposedly a sales manager for this nonexistent convention, is a popular German soccer goalkeeper."
You can check out the hoax video of Windows Mobile running on the iPhone below:
So thankfully there is no Windows Mobile on the iPhone. Are you folks so desperate to get the Copy and Paste feature that you would go to the extent of installing Window Mobile on the iPhone?
Thanks Daniel for the tip!
[via Gear Log]
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