Huawei denies plans to produce a dual-OS phone

Nearly a week ago, we told you that Chinese manufacturer Huawei was planning on launching a dual-OS handset in the U.S. The device, loaded with both the Android and Windows Phone platforms, was seemingly confirmed by Huawei's CMO of devices, Shao Yang. The rumor called for the device to launch during the second quarter.

Now, it would appear that the earlier rumor might have been the result of bad timing. Huawei said on Wednesday that it has no plans at all to release a dual-OS phone. In a statement, Huawei even admitted that Android is its focus for the time being. This is a bit of a mystery considering how CMO Yang explained that many people might not buy a Windows Phone model, but would consider a phone that was powered by both Windows Phone and Android.

"Microsoft is still a key global partner of Huawei Consumer Business Group .As long as the consumers continue to demand Windows, we will continue to supply them."-Huawei
The comments made by Yang took place late last month at MWC in Barcelona and Huawei says it has changed its plans since then. The manufacturer still plans on offering new Windows Phone models later this year. Coincidentally, Asus recently scratched plans to sell a device powered by both Android and Windows Phone 8.1 after objections to the product were made by both Google and Microsoft.

source: FierceWireless via AndroidCentral, WPCentral
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Microsoft doesn't want Android and Windows dual-OS devices to happen either

Since the beginning of the year,various manufacturers have been pitching dual-OS devices that bootAndroid and Windows 8 (desktop and Windows Phone). Yesterday, Huaweiannounced that it will introduce a dual-OS handset soon. Beforethat, ASUS was to ship its Transformer Duet TD300 dual-bootingtablet, but it was stalled in its tracks by Google. This revealed a serious obstacle for the dual-OS concept - industry pressure.

So far, our assessment of the situationwas that dual-OS devices represent a chance for Microsoft topiggyback on Android's popularity to increase Windows' market share,which is something Google would understandably object to. But thereality might be different. According to analyst Patrick Moore, whileGoogle "wants all-Android devices", Microsoft too wouldrather have all-Windows devices, because dual-OS will let Androidenter the Windows-dominated PC market. Google is already trying tocompete in this space with its Chromebook laptops, and dual-bootingdevices could give them another, even more comfortable entry pointinto a territory that Microsoft wants for itself.

Allegedly, an internal ASUS memo aboutits 2013 AIO PC dual-OS desktop computers revealed that Microsoft has anew policy of not supporting dual-booting products, which is why theTaiwanese company will stop selling them. As a whole, the fate of future dual-booting devicesis unclear at this point. Although Chinese and Taiwanese vendors arequite interested in the concept, and Intel has done a lot of technological work tobring it to fruition, it seems that Google and Microsoft have thelast word on it, for now.

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