Windows 11 for Arm can run natively on specific Android smartphones — the test device heats up very fast, and battery life substantially decreases

u/anh0l running Windows 11 on Arm on his Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro
(Image credit: u/anh0l on Reddit)

Yesterday on Reddit, user anh0l uploaded an image of Windows 11 on Arm running on his personal Xiaomi Poco X3 smartphone. The smartphone keeps a split partition for the original Android operating system and even has a functioning UEFI.

There are still some major problems with Windows 11 on Arm with this smartphone, though—for example, the right side of the touchscreen has inverted controls, and the temperature range is uncomfortable for a smartphone and its battery, reaching a reported ~48 degrees Celsius (12 degrees Fahrenheit) in testing. There are reports of other Android smartphones reaching those temperature ranges without booting into Windows, which could also be a sign of the times.

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  • Agatong439
    Maybe one step closer to bringing back Windows Phones
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  • froggx
    "... the temperature range is uncomfortable for a smartphone and its battery, reaching a reported ~48 degrees Celsius (12 degrees Fahrenheit)..."

    Ya mean 118.4°F?


    Agatong439 said:
    Maybe one step closer to bringing back Windows Phones
    That'd be awesome af. My Win7 Phone was easily the best phone I've ever owned.
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  • drtweak
    Maybe once i retire my 3 years old OnePlus 8t with its 865 CPU i'll try it out lol I was soo looking forward to the windows 10 phone/Surface phone whatever they were going to call it where if you plugged it into a dock that it would give you an actual desktop environment, and has x86 emulation and later x64 emulation. That would have been nice and I may have been willing to finally jump off the Android bandwagon
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