1st Multi-OS Smartphone?

[Malvado]

So i was browsing around in the CNET app for ANDROID. After alot of looking, I came across this AWESOME NEWS. Some guy has designed what he calls the HTC HDD. It will give you the option to run both WINDOWS 7 mobile and ANDROID. CAN IT REALLY BE? Will his work actually be made into an actual MULTI-OS smartphone?





SOURCE: HTC HDD by NAK ... - NAK Phone Design

[spaz33g]

Wow that's exciting. And it looks super sehksy.

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[Googleaddict]

This would be awesome if it were to be released!

[Abe21599]

very good looking phone. and two OS would be pretty cool to mess around with

[Malvado]

very good looking phone. and two OS would be pretty cool to mess around with

my question is, WOULD IT BE ROOTABLE? having two OS and constantly switching between the two. dont you think that would interfere wit the ROOT process...does WINDOWS MOBILE have a similiar "ROOT" authorization?

[Abe21599]

lol i know nothing about windows mobile. i presume it still would be something similar because theres always devs looking to crack devices.

[BachinPhx]

Don't know about dual systems or rootability. All I know is that is one sexy looking phone. One can only imagine when and IF it will be released. Come on LTE for Verizon phones.

[Malvado]

heres the CNET article:

A French fellow who goes by the handle Crazy Nawak e-mailed me some concept photos for a "multi-OS" smartphone from HTC that would allow you to switch between two operating systems. HTC already has the old HTC Touch Dual, but the "dual' in that phone stood for the combination of a slide-out keypad and a touch screen.
This fantasy model has a 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor and runs both Windows Mobile 7 and Android 2.2 (see more photos here). Of course, plenty of people out there have already hacked Windows Mobile phones to run on Android--and even to dual-boot both operating systems (see video below).
As smartphones sport even more powerful processors, it seems like it wouldn't be that big a deal to swap smoothly between one OS and another on the same phone. And there's been some chatter in the past about companies like VMWare developing virtualization technology that would allow two operating systems to run simultaneously on a mobile device.
All that said, we're not sure how practical it really is. It might be interesting for corporations to be able to offer workers a personal phone and a work phone all in one device, with software separating the two environments. And perhaps Android and iPhone fanboys might finally get along with a dual-boot AndriPhone.
What do you guys think? Good idea or not?

and heres a video with HTC TOUCH PRO 2 WITH DUALBOOT ALREADY:



if you want to do this to a WINDOWS MOBILE phone here are instructions but it looks like its limited to some devices
http://pocketnow.com/tweaks-hacks/ho...le-and-android

[Quicksilver7714]

This would be sweet. Although I would be tempted to remove win mobile. Haha I like Windows just not the mobile platform. I would love to see this come out in the US. I would love a 1080p resolution screen. And a dual core processor plus this phone looks hot.

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[Malvado]

This would be sweet. Although I would be tempted to remove win mobile. Haha I like Windows just not the mobile platform. I would love to see this come out in the US. I would love a 1080p resolution screen. And a dual core processor plus this phone looks hot.

Trying out Sprint for a month. Sent from my Evo using Tapatalk. 4G is pointless when you don't live in one of the few available network areas.

well u can just use the WINDOWS part of it as a ZUNE =]...