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Android Phones Get Virtualization
bednarz writes "VMware is teaming with LG to sell Android smartphones that are virtualized, allowing a single phone to run two operating systems, one for business use and one for personal use. A user's personal email and applications would run natively on the Android phone, while a guest operating system contains the employee's work environment. The devices would also have two phone numbers."
Multiple SIM support has been around for years(typically not on US carrier locked stuff; but weirdo Chinese cheapies and retail-unlocked jet-setter devices do it standard, in addition to the slightly shady "16-in-one-SIM" hack/consolidation kits.
The real trick(though I'm not sure that virtualization is a good answer) is getting the vastly increased amount of user state, some of it either personally or business sensitive, separated in some logical way...