We're Andromium. Making the Superbook, a $99 Android Laptop Shell. AMA

Re:We're Andromium. Making the Superbook, a $99 Android Lapt... by ChartsNGraffs on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @09:06AM (#12254187)

I remember a while back there was the similar ClamCase Clambook[1] (all manufacturer links now non-existent). It never shipped. Any relation to that project? 1 - http://www.zdnet.com/article/clambook-turn-your-smartphone-i...

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Re:We're Andromium. Making the Superbook, a $99 Android Lapt... by ajiang on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @09:09AM (#12254203)

None at all! Although we've gotten in touch with the founder, who is a super nice guy. He mentioned about the challenges of software - near impossible on iOS.

And actually of all of the various attempts at this, the primary failure was that the software experience was so poor. We've been working on the software side (Andromium) for over 1.5 years, with a bunch of feedback from a pretty awesome community :)

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Re:We're Andromium. Making the Superbook, a $99 Android Lapt... by betimsl on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @09:15AM (#12254238)

There was also Motorola Atrix and one can get that laptop/shell for $75 on eBay. I wonder if their app works with it.

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Re:We're Andromium. Making the Superbook, a $99 Android Lapt... by ajiang on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @09:17AM (#12254249)

Haha yes! But when it came out, the laptop shell was $500-$600. Unsupported hardware has a tendency to get cheap ;)

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Re:We're Andromium. Making the Superbook, a $99 Android Lapt... by skykooler on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @01:13PM (#12256097)

I've been using the Atrix lapdock for a while with a Raspberry Pi, and the one thing that bothered me is that keys for adjusting things on the dock itself (like screen brightness, or keyboard backlight) don't work unless the USB is connected to a device that recognizes it. Is this the same for the Superbook, or does it process its own key presses?

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