Samsung Could Save Windows Phone Via New Patent

Windows Phones are now a dying breed, mostly because Microsoft has not been able to generate the kind of interest in the product as it was hoping for. This proved particularly disastrous when the company acquired Nokia, which cut into its finances quite a bit. Samsung might just be coming to the rescue, however, with a new patent that involves a device that can run two operating systems; one is Android and the other is Windows.

As The Next Web notes, Samsung is known for cramming as much as they possibly can into their smartphones. Heck, if they could include a shaver and a coffee maker in those tiny frames, they likely would. As such, it isn’t too surprising that the South Korean smartphone giant might be planning on making a phone that could hold two types of OSs at the same time.

This notion comes amid the company filing a patent which involves a smartphone that can run Android and Windows simultaneously. This means that if users wanted to bring up apps for the Android and apps for Windows, they could do so at the flick of a switch. The patent even suggests that the phone could run both side by side via split windows.

On paper, the idea might sound like a good one. Users wouldn’t have to get two separate devices in order to use both OSs, or give up on one in favor of the other.

On that note, there’s no telling if there is even a market for this kind of device, PC World reports. Unless the user has a dire need to use Windows apps such as for work or some other important reason, it would perhaps be better to simply choose one or the other. This could end up as just another novel concept that gathers dust on a shelf somewhere.