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janrinok
on Friday March 14 2014, @01:35PM
from the is-that-the-sound-of-desperation-that-I-hear dept.
from the is-that-the-sound-of-desperation-that-I-hear dept.
skullz writes:
"Hot on the heels of Microsoft easing up access to the Windows Phone OS are rumors of dual Windows / Android phones, able to boot into either OS.
- Huawei Confirms Dual-OS Android-Windows Smartphone
- Huawei Might Launch Dual-OS Android-Windows Phone Handsets Too
The narrative so far is Android for personal use, Windows for BYOD to the office. I can see a company locking down a Windows Phone install so it can connect to Exchange and the company wifi but what would the two OSs share? Contacts and pictures? Would a bit of malware on one OS be isolated from the other?
It used to be that you would dual boot your Windows box with Linux, now that trend has reversed itself for your mobile. How far we have come."
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by n1 on Friday March 14 2014, @02:52PM
I couldn't agree more, bring back physical QWERTY. I cant be the only person so frustrated at the non-existent nature of such phones. For people in the US, you're lucky to have some market specific phones which do have a QWERTY even if they aren't that great. The 'Droid' series from Motorola and the Samsung Galaxy S Relay are not available in other markets. There are a couple of others too which are not available here (Europe).
There are literally zero options in the UK if you want an Android with a physical keyboard. I have about the last/only physical keyboard android they sold in the UK, Samsung Galaxy Y Pro (800mhz cpu, 180mb internal storage, Android2.3) which is crap, but better than not having a physical keyboard.