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The atrix was the first phone that recognized that use case - but the suits at motorola made it prohibitively expensive to own the dock (costed as much as the p
by sandGorgon 15y ago
The atrix was the first phone that recognized that use case - but the suits at motorola made it prohibitively expensive to own the dock (costed as much as the phone itself) that made this possible.
Here's the problem I see - the docking system that needs to be standardized. The ARM Mali T658 GPU promises PS3 quality... and there are better chips (Tegra 4, Adreno, etc.) on the way. The Atrix leverages the HDMI+microusb because of the way it designed them to fit into the slots into its dock.
Theoretically, you could use the Adreno dock with other phones, but they dont have the ports placed in the same way (to lock into the dock).
I think with Google's philosophy of open-ness, it is too much to expect the creation of a new dock standard. I'm not sure if HDMI (or the displayport equivalents) can carry serialized mouse signals in addition to display... but somehow the ports need to be standardized before we have a hope of leveraging hardware that will be equipped to play Crysis by 2012.
And that will be a shame - all that power and unable to use it. Almost as frustrating Skype not using most Android phones' front camera towards video calls for a long time.