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I do want an all-in-one solution, like outlined in the article. A smartphone with enough power to run "regular" applications and a dock I can plug it into for

by ge0rg 15y ago

I do want an all-in-one solution, like outlined in the article. A smartphone with enough power to run "regular" applications and a dock I can plug it into for charging, peripherals and a monitor. Of course the current smartphone OSes are not suitable for that task, as is demonstrated by the Transformer series, among others.

DanBC 15y ago
A smartphone that is able to hook up to a keyboard and monitor and run a simple word processor and spreadsheet; and some calendar / scheduling software; and some email thing (either cloud based web client or traditional server client) - that's a smart phone that many people would buy. Supporting it in the enterprise environment would be tricky. You don't want users loading their phones with malware and then bringing that infected phone inside the network. And, really, I'd be happy if the phone was decoupled from the rest of it. A phone and something like Raspberry PI would do me fine.
- Roritharr 15y ago
  Checkout Motorola WebTop, its exactly that.
- freehunter 15y ago
  Supporting it in the enterprise environment would be tricky. You don't want users loading their phones with malware and then bringing that infected phone inside the network. This happens today even with corporate laptops. If they're allowed outside, they will get infected. Working in information security, I send a few form emails each month telling someone to call the helpdesk and get their computer reimaged. If the company has a good enough network team to know how to properly segment a network (and/or implement a reverse proxy) and a security team with enough resources to monitor network traffic, the risk becomes acceptable. Basically what you describe is BYOD, and it gives me job security :) For the record, I would totally buy the same desktop on three form factors if the same apps and same data could be synced across all of them.
bad_user 15y ago
Why can't an OS like Android be an all-in-one solution anyway? See: http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services/WEBTOP/Meet-WEBTOP http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and... Also, another approach is to make your phone start a desktop OS, such as Ubuntu, once connected to a monitor, mouse and keyboard: http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android Which would essentially be just like regular dual-booting known to geeks, but simplified to make the switch instantly after you dock your phone.

by ge0rg 15y ago

DanBC 15y ago

A smartphone that is able to hook up to a keyboard and monitor and run a simple word processor and spreadsheet; and some calendar / scheduling software; and some email thing (either cloud based web client or traditional server client) - that's a smart phone that many people would buy. Supporting it in the enterprise environment would be tricky. You don't want users loading their phones with malware and then bringing that infected phone inside the network. And, really, I'd be happy if the phone was decoupled from the rest of it. A phone and something like Raspberry PI would do me fine.

Roritharr 15y ago
Checkout Motorola WebTop, its exactly that.
freehunter 15y ago
Supporting it in the enterprise environment would be tricky. You don't want users loading their phones with malware and then bringing that infected phone inside the network. This happens today even with corporate laptops. If they're allowed outside, they will get infected. Working in information security, I send a few form emails each month telling someone to call the helpdesk and get their computer reimaged. If the company has a good enough network team to know how to properly segment a network (and/or implement a reverse proxy) and a security team with enough resources to monitor network traffic, the risk becomes acceptable. Basically what you describe is BYOD, and it gives me job security :) For the record, I would totally buy the same desktop on three form factors if the same apps and same data could be synced across all of them.

bad_user 15y ago

Why can't an OS like Android be an all-in-one solution anyway? See: http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services/WEBTOP/Meet-WEBTOP http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and... Also, another approach is to make your phone start a desktop OS, such as Ubuntu, once connected to a monitor, mouse and keyboard: http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android Which would essentially be just like regular dual-booting known to geeks, but simplified to make the switch instantly after you dock your phone.