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Cool looking device, I'm not convinced it's totally revolutionary, especially with Microsoft's mobile offerings now, but the killer difference will likely be th

by mwill 11y ago

Cool looking device, I'm not convinced it's totally revolutionary, especially with Microsoft's mobile offerings now, but the killer difference will likely be the software, especially if the offline/online syncing works as promised, and the interface is as slick and it looks in the concept video. >For a fixed monthly fee, you, as a Solu user get all the storage and apps you need This, along with what's said in the video, is sort of saying to me that the only apps available on Solu will be those made by Solu itself, or those made for free, as the video implies 3rd party developers are not able to sell software for Solu? I'm assuming the OS is walled in. It may be DOA for many people if 3rd party developers can't release their own software. EDIT: Seems it runs Android underneath the slick shell, from the kickstarter: >We are working with a number of development houses to bring their collaborative tools to Solu, but we also support legacy Android apps.

Gravityloss 11y ago
Are there other tablets with external display + keyboard + mouse attachment possibilities where you can run bash and shell scripts (not cygwin)?
- 83457 11y ago
  Not that I know of but I have no idea why not. Ubuntu for Android was a project started 2 or 3 years ago which was based off of the concept of being able to boot up Ubuntu from a powerful phone. The Ubuntu Phone is supposed to have desktop interface but I think they are still working on it. I think some phones do provide a "desktop android" type display when you connect to monitor but haven't seen much about that lately. Not to say it is easy but I'm surprised this isn't widely available yet as I expect many tech people at least would take advantage of it.
  - jerf 11y ago
    @&#&!@)(@'in phones is what. Specifically the cellular radio components; put a cell radio in a device and suddenly you are hardcore rammed into proprietary software land. The halo seems to extend even to tablets that don't hook up the cell network since all the hardware still sources from phone-land. I'd rather have open software slowly and even ungracefully get phone functionality merged into it, but that's basically not possible, so instead we've been forced to go the other way, laboriously, slowly, and largely unsuccessfully trying to open hardware and software up that is starting from a position of totally proprietary. This is one of the most frustrating development to me of the past ten years. We've made huge strides towards proprietary, locked-down hardware, because of cell phones, even in systems that don't use them. I'd love something like the Ubuntu phone, at least in principle, but it's swimming upstream against some very strong currents.
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- stonogo 11y ago
  None that caught on, but this has been done many times. The HP TC1100 and the WePad come to mind.

by mwill 11y ago

Gravityloss 11y ago

Are there other tablets with external display + keyboard + mouse attachment possibilities where you can run bash and shell scripts (not cygwin)?

83457 11y ago
Not that I know of but I have no idea why not. Ubuntu for Android was a project started 2 or 3 years ago which was based off of the concept of being able to boot up Ubuntu from a powerful phone. The Ubuntu Phone is supposed to have desktop interface but I think they are still working on it. I think some phones do provide a "desktop android" type display when you connect to monitor but haven't seen much about that lately. Not to say it is easy but I'm surprised this isn't widely available yet as I expect many tech people at least would take advantage of it.
- jerf 11y ago
  @&#&!@)(@'in phones is what. Specifically the cellular radio components; put a cell radio in a device and suddenly you are hardcore rammed into proprietary software land. The halo seems to extend even to tablets that don't hook up the cell network since all the hardware still sources from phone-land. I'd rather have open software slowly and even ungracefully get phone functionality merged into it, but that's basically not possible, so instead we've been forced to go the other way, laboriously, slowly, and largely unsuccessfully trying to open hardware and software up that is starting from a position of totally proprietary. This is one of the most frustrating development to me of the past ten years. We've made huge strides towards proprietary, locked-down hardware, because of cell phones, even in systems that don't use them. I'd love something like the Ubuntu phone, at least in principle, but it's swimming upstream against some very strong currents.
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stonogo 11y ago
None that caught on, but this has been done many times. The HP TC1100 and the WePad come to mind.