Having proudly claimed the first Android-Windows Phone dual-boot phones would arrive by spring, Huawei is now backpedalling—saying they won’t happen after all. Sound familiar?
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A report by the Wall Street Journal claims that Intel’s grand plans to stuff Android and Windows into the same tablet
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Dual booting is the latest mobile fad
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Recently there’s been a push to have PCs dual booting with Android and Windows
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Today’s business jargon gem: TAM, Total Addressable Market. AMD feels that Windows 8 comes with plenty of the stuff, so it sees no commercial need to make its forthcoming tablet chip — codenamed Hondo — play nice Android as well. Speaking to The Inquirer, corporate VP Steve Belt said it was a “conscious decision” not to go after compatibility with Google’s OS, because AMD doesn’t want to spread itself into “other markets.” What could this mean for us tablet-buyers? No dual-booting Windows / Android magic on AMD devices, for one thing, which is perhaps a shame now that ASUS has shown off the combo’s potential. On the other hand, Belt made it clear that Honda will support Linux, which — for now, at least — is more than can be said of Intel’s rival low-power silicon, Clover Trail.
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