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Virtualization is a concept that has grown very rapidly in the last decade, especially amongst casual, home users. It makes sense, too, considering that the hardware available to the average user these days is capable of running multiple instances of an operating system with ease, even if you need a high-end machine for that. Also, the segregation of operating systems themselves has grown to a point where you do tend to want to try out the offerings of one, but don?t really want to switch your primary OS, where again virtualization comes to the rescue. The same concept has been trickling down to smartphones as well.
When we look at it from the perspective of evolution of computing, it only seems natural and logical; our daily drivers in technology are becoming smaller by the day (tablets, for instance, replacing traditional notebooks, especially the hybrids), and portable computing in the next ?in? thing.
Seeing as how smartphones are no longer merely communication devices but so much more, there doesn?t seem to be a reason why they shouldn?t sport the ability to run multiple operating systems. The same concept has been there for a while in Android already, in the form of dual booting ROMs that allow you to imitate a multi-boot set up akin to desktops. Now, a team of students from St. Petersburg University of Russian Academy of Sciences in tandem with Parallels (a virtualization company) has demoed a video of Samsung?s Galaxy S II running two ROMs side by side, at the same time.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RedmondPie/~3/cssAM8wfZW4/
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