Electronics giant Samsung unveiled the ATIV Q today, a new tablet that runs two different operating systems simultaneously, Windows 8 and Android version 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) operating systems.

The ATIV Q offers nine hours of battery life on a full charge, which isn’t bad considering the processor and high-definition display. There’s also the dual-booting to worry about, which comes with some new software called SideSync to share various data between the two separate operating systems.

Samsung is also playing up the Ativ Q’s ability to run Android applications. According to Samsung, the Ativ Q will allow users to “experience both Windows 8 and Android (Jellybean 4.2.2) on the same device.” Android apps can be pinned to the Windows 8 start screen and run directly from there. The Ativ Q lets users get Android apps directly from the Google Play store and also potentially by copying them from Windows. Samsung says that the device can transfer files and folders between Windows 8 and Android (which we assume will be running virtualized).

The Ativ Q is the larger device, powered by a new Intel Haswell Core i5 CPU (with Intel’s HD Graphics 4400 integrated GPU). It has 4GB of DDR3 RAM and comes with a 128GB SSD. Samsung promises battery life of up to nine hours with the Ativ Q.

yimikaa: 2 sweet OS on one tab Samsung is not relenting,they want a large share of the tablet and smartphone market..I can hear samsung saying to apple "EnI duro" ..and where those technotians abi na technicians .

yimikaa: 2 sweet OS on one tab Samsung is not relenting,they want a large share of the tablet and smartphone market..I can hear samsung saying to apple "EnI duro" ..and where those technotians abi na technicians .

Lord_Reed: Tablet productivity just took a turn towards superceding that of the laptop or desktop PC. A tablet running on core i5? Men the future is here!

yimikaa: 2 sweet OS on one tab Samsung is not relenting,they want a large share of the tablet and smartphone market..I can hear samsung saying to apple "EnI duro" ..and where those technotians abi na technicians .

ikechukz: I will be among the first set of people to get this tab.........................................................................but only if it sells below 30k

ciphoenix: Thanks to haswell

Lord_Reed:

O boy! I would love to see the benchmark scores for this device.

ciphoenix: intel has finally arrived to oust ARM give em 2 more releases for to bring out 14nm chips. Heard the haswell chips offer 15% performance increase over ivy bridge. Imagine that power kicking through mobile benchmarks

Fhemmmy: I remember when people were saying on NL that samsung is going down and i opposed that, Now we see, Samsung aint going nowhere, Apple needs to be worried . . . No wonder they are going after samsung, cos they could see what we never did

Bawss1:

Any talk of Samsung going down only stemmed from ignorant Techno fan boys.

Bawss1: Finally a Samsung tablet that might just interest me