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Windows / Android Dual Boot Phones

posted by janrinok on Friday March 14 2014, @01:35PM   
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."

• Re:Why? (Score: 2, Insightful) by joekiser on Friday March 14 2014, @04:09PM

  by joekiser (1837) on Friday March 14 2014, @04:09PM (#16610)

  And, yeah, I fully understand that some people don't like Google or Apple, or Microsoft or Blackberry or their Carrier to have a list of their contacts. You only have to lose all your contacts ONCE to realize the privacy you gain by sim storage is an illusion and not worth the effort. But it is clearly up to you.
  
  The privacy element goes out the window when all of your contacts are using Google / Apple devices and have you in the cloud anyway. I'm sure it is trivial to compile a fairly accurate contact list using this information.
  I didn't realize that SIM cards are no longer used to store contacts...I've been on dumbphones for too long, and when I got my Blackberry, I couldn't find the feature.

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