>A Windows Phone with the ability to run ("native") Windows software would be an incredibly interesting play. Intel killed its smartphone x86 chip project in A

>A Windows Phone with the ability to run ("native") Windows software would be an incredibly interesting play. Intel killed its smartphone x86 chip project in April[0] so that's unlikely to happen anytime soon. There are reports of MS planning to attempt to do x86 emulation on ARM but that strikes me as a long shot. Getting good compatibility and decent performance would be challenging to say the least. [0] http://www.anandtech.com/show/10288/intel-broxton-sofia-smartphone-socs-cancelled http://www.anandtech.com/show/10288/intel-broxton-sofia-smar.... [1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/x86-emulation-rumored-to-be-coming-to-windows-for-arm-in-late-2017/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/x86-em...