Is it possible to install Windows Phone 8 on a previously Android (Kitkat) phone?

A little Googling says no, you can’t run Windows on a Samsung Galaxy Note III. There are some notes about Microsoft offering Windows to Android phone manufacturers, but it’s not a hobbyist thing.

From my own experiments, I can say that even running different flavors of Android isn’t a great option – there will be problems with something – like maybe the camera doesn’t work or battery life is terrible.

Given how Microsoft is trying to go with one unified platform, I would think that just running Win8 at low resolution would work!

Seriously though, no, there is no real way an end-user can install WinPhone8 on an Android device… yet. There is plenty of device-specific hardware that non-OEM developers often have poor/no drivers for unless the phone maker (in your case, Samsung) shares technical info that they are not likely to share.

@jaytkay That is why I like the stable releases of Cyanogenmod; they tend to work. Releases with the flaws you mention often don’t get past the “Nightly” stage.

That’s what I thought but as they say, it doesn’t hurt to ask.