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Karbonn's new smartphone with Android and WP OS

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<a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/karbonns-new-smartphone-with-android_4.html" target="_blank">Karbonn</a> Mobile might not be a household name outside of India, but the 
company is looking to do something no other smartphone manufacturer has 
done yet: produce a <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">handset that dual-boots</a> both Android and Windows Phone.<br />

You may recall that <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/karbonns-new-smartphone-with-android_4.html" target="_blank">Karbonn </a>is one of the new Windows Phone partners that Microsoft announced
 at the start of <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/karbonns-new-smartphone-with-android_4.html" target="_blank">MWC</a> 2014. Thanks to eased regulations on Windows Phone 
hardware, <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/karbonns-new-smartphone-with-android_4.html" target="_blank">Karbonn</a> has been able to develop a dual-booting phone set for 
release in June, along with a few other Windows Phones that we'll see in
 a few month's time.<br />

The company's dual-booting handset is supposed to target "office-going 
professionals and 'techies'", although no <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/karbonns-new-smartphone-with-android_4.html" target="_blank">specifcations </a>nor a price for 
the smartphone has been revealed.<a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/karbonns-new-smartphone-with-android_4.html" target="_blank"> Karbonn</a> devices are typically found 
across Asia were competition is fierce, so it's unlikely the handset 
will be high-end or expensive.<br />

Most devices that run more than one operating system aren't 
particularly successful, as two separate environments can be tricky to 
manage and unfriendly to use. How <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/karbonns-new-smartphone-with-android_4.html" target="_blank">Karbonn's </a>Android and Windows Phone 
smartphone will turn out remains to be seen, but at least it's doing 
something people haven't tried before.