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You could push the ease-of-use even further with wireless HDMI, A2DP, and Bluetooth HIDs. Imagine: sit at a desk, without your phone even leaving your pocket. T
by mrb 15y ago
You could push the ease-of-use even further with wireless HDMI, A2DP, and Bluetooth HIDs. Imagine: sit at a desk, without your phone even leaving your pocket. The wireless HDMI monitor, Bluetooth keyboard, and Bluetooth A2DP speakers automatically pair up with your phone. You just start using the device, eg. show a video to your friends, or start working. Stand up and leave. The phone unpairs itself from the monitor/speakers/keyboard, free to be used by the next person.
(If security is a concern, make this less automatic, eg. make the pairing require pressing a button on the phone.)
I have been waiting for precisely that concept to take off for years, namely using your cellphone as your portable computer.
- freehunter 15y agoBut with all that running, you won't be working for longer than an hour or two. I really like the Palm/HP Touchstone charger, and I wish wireless charging would take off. It'd be nice to just sit in my cube while all my devices charge in a 3' radius of my desk. Why are there no wireless-charging mice?
- morsch 15y agoTo me, that seems like a lot of trouble to share a relatively trivial amount of hardware. Hardware which is optimised for different, fairly specific circumstances, incidently.
- mrb 15y agoIt's not sharing the device's hardware that matters, but the device's data. All your data is either on the phone (pictures, etc), or available through the phone which is always on and always authenticated to the "cloud" (Android Gmail contacts, emails, etc). The future of computing is either that (using your cellphone as a computer), or putting 100% of your data on the cloud (so you can access it from any device). But the former has the advantage that data can be cached on the device (pictures, contacts), therefore it does not require permanent Internet access so you can work even when offline.
- Lewisham 15y agoI think it's fair to posit that cheap cloud storage space will meet/outpace smartphone storage space, to the point where simply imaging the entire phone to the cloud is easy enough. Even if you lose your phone, you authenticate a new one and you're ready to go in the time it takes to download the image.
- rbanffy 15y agoJust be careful with thermal output. If you make your phone work this hard, you'll get your leg burned.
- gbog 15y agoYes, the dock is not even needed.