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posted by janrinok on Friday March 14 2014, @01:35PM   Printer-friendly
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.

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: 1) by n1 on Friday March 14 2014, @04:19PM

    by n1 (993) on Friday March 14 2014, @04:19PM (#16613)

    You are totally correct, should I lose my phone then I have no way of retrieving my phone book, that is indeed a serious issue which I should seek to resolve.

    Your experience may be different, being in the US I assume. My sim and phone are not tied to each other, my carrier only provides my SIM. I buy my phones outright and make sure they're unlocked, as such I don't get the latest due to inflated prices of the current generations. I accept most people don't do it this way, but it is at least an option (in the UK) which I have taken up. For me, having a phone that is a year or two out of date, is worth not being signed up to a 2-3 year contract with less service than I currently have now ($25/pm 500minutes, unlimited text, unlimited data - rolling/no contract). I lose out on having 'the best' phone, but i get some freedom.

    I am very much behind the times on this so my new phone may not enable me to use the SIM, so your original 1998 comment wasn't misplaced. Things are changing in ways I don't appreciate, but I will have to adapt and some kind of 'sync' will be inevitable.