Although our favorite operating system, Android, adapts perfectly to all kinds of devices, it still has a way to go before it can be considered useful on computers. We have experience with Samsung DeX and even native desktop mode, and although these are not the first, they are still in development. try to converge.

Microsoft tried this with Windows 10 Mobile, numerous tests following the failure of Windows Phone. For several years now, the community revived this idea With a project you don’t know about: It offers us the opportunity to install Windows 10 and Windows 11 on Android phones.

Windows natively on your Android mobile device

This was made possible by the group. Traitor ProjectA community that has been working for several years to port UEFI firmware to devices with Snapdragon processors. Thanks to this addition, it is possible to install Linux distributions and other operating systems such as Microsoft’s.

Like any community project, still under development and they never guarantee that it will work normally. Since our mobile phones contain many components, they need to be supported on every operating system, which is a really complicated thing. In fact, they work on what is often called “reverse engineering” to improve it. drivers (controllers in our language) are functional.

In fact, this is the same work done in the past to update Lumia to Windows 10 desktop. Because yes, there is currently a version in both Windows 10 and Windows 11 ARM version It is suitable for mobile device architectures. With all this, Renegade Project increases support for some very popular phones of recent years: the legendary POCO F1, some OnePlus, POCO X3 and even the LG G8.

You can see the compatibility table on the official website: The normal thing is that the sound does not work, let alone the camera (the drivers are proprietary, which makes adaptation difficult). Yes it helps us try with an old phoneas a curiosity or for some special use.

Just take a look at YouTube to find demonstrations from some users. Some have even successfully installed games from platforms like Steam. Clearly, performance is not as desiredin addition to our inability to connect them to external monitors (most of which do not support video output via USB-C).

An Android mobile phone and gaming Portal running Windows 11 natively. Android Pete’s appearance on YouTube

If you have any of the following compatible mobile phones You can install it yourself. As Xataka Android, we are of course not responsible for what may happen to your phone, it is an unofficial project and has some sensitive steps. If you accidentally touch a compartment or the modem itself, you could end up with a nice paperweight. Do so at your own risk and expense.

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