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BGR: Samsung Considering Dual-Boot Windows/Android For The S8
I came across a very interesting article on BGR that talks about the possibility of Samsung running dual OSs on its next flagship. Android + Windows with the option to boot into the OS you want. This would be quite the evolution if it ends up on the S8. Personally, I think Windows 10 Mobile is a great OS that ended being a failure due to the lack of Apps, a problem we're all familiar with. It's BlackBerry's life story in the last few years. We've been discussing the Dual OS option for BlackBerry devices here for some time (Even though its highly unlikely), anyway I think this is important for us Blackberry fans so enjoy reading.
Here is the article:
"For years, Samsung has been toying with its own mobile operating system, the Tizen OS that never quite gained enough support to be a real Android rival.
A recent patent discovery indicates that Samsung is toying with the idea of replacing Android on its smartphones, though Tizen doesn’t seem to be a candidate. Samsung won’t just ditch the most popular smartphone OS out there from its flagship smartphones, though. But the company may do something completely unexpected: Install both Windows and Android on a flagship device like the Galaxy S8 or its successors, and allow users to boot into either OS on demand.
Considering smartphones get more powerful every year and Microsoft did create a way to run Windows 10 on a mobile device connected to a computer monitor, a dual-boot Galaxy S8 would be an interesting proposition.
You’d theoretically get the best of both worlds, assuming Google and Microsoft let Samsung pull off such a move. We’ve heard of dual-boot Windows/Android devices before, but they were killed soon after Microsoft or Google protested. Samsung did have one cool Ativ Q convertible laptop in the works, which it wanted to ship in fall 2013. But the company shelved that product.
Meanwhile, Samsung is still exploring the idea of booting multiple operating systems on a mobile device, and from the looks of these images, it seems that Samsung thinks Android and Windows could coexist on a smartphone. Users would even be able to switch between the operating systems, as these images suggest, and Samsung mentions the two operating systems by name.
Filed in early May last year and discovered by GalaxyClub, the patent features many images portraying what looks like a Galaxy S flagship that runs Windows and Android. The device could also be a Galaxy Note or a tablet from the looks of these images. The user is able to seamlessly move between operating systems, according to some of the pictures.
Before you get too excited about this concept, you should remember that technology described in patents isn’t always implemented in commercial products."
Link: https://bgr.com/2016/09/08/galaxy-s8...droid-windows/
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What do you think about such an idea, will it happen?.. and if it did happen, will this give BlackBerry a few ideas about Android/BB10, even though it will be very hard and Google will fiercely object.
BGR: Samsung Considering Dual-Boot Windows/Android For The S8
Microsoft might allow it, since they'd love it if Samsung supported their platform again, but I'm pretty sure there's something in the OHA(as someone above mentioned) that would nix it.
BGR: Samsung Considering Dual-Boot Windows/Android For The S8
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Reaney Oooh, good thought! :) Revenge for the rounded corners, haha.
You can't patent an idea, only the implementation of an idea. Besides, Apple owns both OS's she mentioned. What would stop them from coming up with their own implementation? Or just skipping that and merging the two OS's? And they already have devices that dual-boot: Macs.