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Oh, absolutely. I'd love to have a phone that I can use as a phone, insert into a "laptop dock" (like what the motorola atrix had) and use as a laptop, and inse
by sciurus 13y ago
Oh, absolutely. I'd love to have a phone that I can use as a phone, insert into a "laptop dock" (like what the motorola atrix had) and use as a laptop, and insert into a more traditional docking station (to which I've attached a large monitor, ethernet, etc) so I can use it as a desktop.
I'd much prefer to have a single trusted device than spread my digital life across "a cloud".
- fpgeek 13y agoExactly. Even with most of my stuff in the Google cloud, the cognitive overhead of going from my Note 2 to my Nexus 7 to my "real" laptop and (recently) to my Chromebook is annoying. I'd much rather have one device set up with all my stuff that automagically turns into the form factor I want, when I want it.
- jtome 13y agoI don't know much about it but plan 9 had alot of interesting innovations in this field. I think the idea of it was to build a "UNIX out of a lot of little systems, not a system out of a lot of little UNIXes"
- scholia 13y agoOld idea that has never taken off, and is probably less likely now that chips are really cheap. This graphic shows MCC’s Modular PC idea http://jkontherun.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/solutions_hq.jpg http://jkontherun.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/solutions_hq.j... IBM's MetaPad was a similar idea. Today, the Asus PadFone probably comes closest.
- fpgeek 13y agoYeah, the PadFone is quite attractive. If only they'd kept the Transformer-style keyboard dock from the original...
- scholia 13y agoTried it for a while but Android software is pretty awful on a 10in or larger screen. For the size/weight, you get much more power with Windows 7/8 (pus AirDroid and Dropbox etc).