Re:“Smartphone” is the wrong name
by dragonwriter on Monday February 22, 2016 @01:03PM
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> unless phones develop dockable desktop capability in which case they are now dual-purpose converged devices.
Phones already have dockable desktop capability (that is, support for desktop-style output via appropriate cables that support HDMI, and support for desktop-style input via Bluetooth keyboard/mouse.)
Re:“Smartphone” is the wrong name
by clumsysmurf on Monday February 22, 2016 @01:05PM
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> I doubt it... unless phones develop dockable desktop capability in which case they are now dual-purpose converged devices.
Already here, its only going to get better.
Them's are some drool-worthy specs:
http://cdn.bgr.com/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-20-at-11-50-3...
Someone has already predicted that it will fail ...
http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/21/hp-announces-yet-another-mo...
Unusual needs like being able to see a lot of text at once, type things longer than a paragraph, multitask, use more than one app in a work flow, and run real software?
I doubt it... unless phones develop dockable desktop capability in which case they are now dual-purpose converged devices. Right now to believe that mobile is "the future" of everything requires one to believe that most people have nothing to say beyond one-liners and selfies and that the only purpose of computing is to interact with canned services. That might be true for a subset of the market but I think it's a smaller subset than some do.