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VMware has been demoing what sounds like almost identical technology for a while now: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-watch-blog/like-supermanclar

by morisy 15y ago

VMware has been demoing what sounds like almost identical technology for a while now: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-watch-blog/like-supermanclark-kent-for-your-phone-vmwares-mobile-virtualization-platform-mvp/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-watch-blog/like... It creates a virtual machine that's hardware encrypted on the device, and actually runs them as two separate phones. Similar full-on or pseudo-virtualized environments have been used on the iPhone, iPad, and other devices to various degrees of success over the years, but I think it is a slight hyperbole to say "this could change the way people use smartphones, entirely".

zobzu 15y ago
as far as i can read, that's incorrect. VMWare virtualize the phone's hardware. That's actually adding some security between the 2 environments (personal and business, mind you). The linked article seems to be about 2 separate disk partitions, but the same user space. And that doesn't sound good then.
- morisy 15y ago
  You're right. I definitely shouldn't have used the term "identical". The user interface paradigm seems very similar in concept, regardless of the underlying technology, and I guess I was trying to push back on that hype as an original take. There was a consumer grade phone a few years ago that pulled very similar partitioning tricks but my Google-Fu has failed me in retrieving it. Thanks for clarifying.
CWuestefeld 15y ago
Such a device was featured in Charles Stross's recent novel Rule 34.