Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal

Re:Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal by andai on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:17AM (#27984044)

Didn't Ubuntu make a phone ten years ago that did that? But they gave up on it. I also thought Samsung phones could do that, too.

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Re:Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal by delusional on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:59AM (#27984611)

Samsung phones can indeed do that. It's called DeX (https://www.samsung.com/us/explore/dex/) and nobody cares.

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Re:Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal by m4rtink on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:24AM (#27984915)

I use DeX quite a bit - it's super handy for viewing photos/videos captured on the device (Galaxy Note 9) on a big screen with desktop like controls.

Also I have the Wacom One LCD drawing tablet that I often connect to my Galaxy Tab S6 and draw on in in DeX mode with ClipStudio. It effectively turns this setup to a nice portable drawing studio, with the added flexibility of being able to work on your projects also on the go with just the Tab S6.

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Re:Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal by opan on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:14AM (#27984775)

The PinePhone and Librem 5 can both be docked and used like computers.

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Re:Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal by RedComet on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:53AM (#27993260)

Yes, I'm hopeful for the day they work well as phones, too.

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Re:Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal by mbirth on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @10:20AM (#28049518)

MaruOS was a project that tried this for a bunch of phones.

https://maruos.com

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