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Originally Posted by JKingGrim
I like this as a vision of the future. No more having a phone, laptop and a desktop. I get home and dock my phone and it becomes my desktop. It can utilize the processing power and utilities of the devices connecting to the dock. When I am out and about I connect to a Redfly like device and it becomes my laptop.
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It's really not that visionary, though. As pointed out above, there were designs to have PDAs and phones do similar things.
Also, IBM had the
Meta Pad concept PC, which was basically a "core" PC that could dock into handheld, laptop, desktop and even wearable stations.
So there's plenty of prior art. Adding a phone to the mix isn't particularly non-obvious.
I think the true vision of the future will be implanted PCs that work with your brain and keep you always connected. Let the PC crunch numbers, which it's very good at, while pushing pattern recognition tasks off to the brain, which it's good at. If we truly don't use 90% of our brains, maybe we can share the capacity.
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Originally Posted by JKingGrim
This will need a completely new OS design that truly works across screen resolutions and has different interfaces to adapt to how it is currently being used. It must combine the speed and battery friendly nature of a mobile OS with the power and flexibility of a desktop OS. Perhaps one day though.
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I don't think the OS needs much redesign. Windows Mobile already supports multiple screen resolutions. That's how products like NYDITOT Virtual Display and the Celio Redfly can work.
There are two problems, though -- developers who code their applications to only work in a specified resolution and the artwork that comes with the OS (that's why some background images in the Redfly don't fill the screen).
I believe Android also may be up to the task. There were stories about people running it on a netbook/MID.
Steve