An Android phone is running more than one operating system. A friend of mine who worked in the cell phone industry provided a bunch of details which I quoted o

An Android phone is running more than one operating system. A friend of mine who worked in the cell phone industry provided a bunch of details which I quoted on my blog: http://boston.conman.org/2013/01/22.2 http://boston.conman.org/2013/01/22.2 TL;DR: Android phones have at least two separate CPUs, one to run the applications, the second one the actual phone portions, each running their own operating system.