Compulab Exeda smartphone dual boots Android and Windows Mobile

Compulab's Exeda smartphone is a crazy little device: a squared QWERTY with a 3.5-inch sun-readable VGA touchscreen, a 520MHz Marvell CPU, 128MB of RAM and the ability to pick between quadband GSM / GPRS, CDMA, and 3G UMTS. There's even an Ethernet port! But where it gets really cool is it dual boots OSes: Android, and if you're crazy, Windows Mobile 6.1 can be accessed with a reboot. Very neat, but no price yet: we'll find out in March.

Exeda [Official Site via Engadget]

[#1 posted by Halloween Jack , January 14, 2009 1:29 PM]

Dual-boot and other goodies: sexy.

Clunky, chunky shape: nosexy. Srsly, two D-pads?

[#2 posted by Jonathan Harford , January 14, 2009 3:07 PM]

True trying-out-Linux tradition! LILO or GRUB?

[#3 posted by Ronald Pottol , January 14, 2009 3:09 PM]

I was liking it until I saw that it had only 128MB ram. :-( 512 is the number I'm looking for.

[#4 posted by musicalwoods , January 14, 2009 4:59 PM]

These are the types of phones I want to see more of, allowing OS options on a hardware platform.

[#5 posted by Robabob , January 15, 2009 4:51 AM]

I like the fact it can run both OS's although I can't see why you would actually want to dual boot a phone.

[#6 posted by kiltreiser , January 15, 2009 5:17 AM]

The spec sounds great (apart from the RAM) but that dumpy little square shape just doesn't do it for me. I need sleek sexiness!

[#7 posted by jeshii , January 15, 2009 9:23 AM]

Dual Boot!!! YES! Now let's get android working on iPhones! XD