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Re:Startup Ideas by mapster on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @07:41AM (#28771881)
Bring back the dumb terminal. Place mobile phone on a docking pad and see a standard PC OS on the screen - open apps, access files or use a browser. When done just grab the phone and go.
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Re:Startup Ideas by westurner on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @12:38PM (#28775149)
IIUC, in 2021, you can dock a PineTab or a PinePhone with a USB-C PD hub that has HDMI, USB, and Ethernet and use any of a number of Linux Desktop operating systems on a larger screen with full size keyboard and mouse.

The PineTab has a backlit keyboard and IIUC the PinePhone has a keyboard & aux battery case that doesn't yet also include the fingerprint sensor or wireless charging. https://www.pine64.org/blog/

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Re:Startup Ideas by abbot2 on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:10AM (#28772701)
This already exists: https://ubuntu-touch.io/
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Re:Startup Ideas by bingohbangoh on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:45AM (#28773777)
It's mostly dead at this point.

The list of devices includes phones as recent as the Oneplus One. [0]

[0]: https://www.ubports.com/devices/promoted-devices

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Re:Startup Ideas by abbot2 on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @07:23PM (#28779750)
Take the state of the project as a market fit test of the idea?
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Re:Startup Ideas by amd64 on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:13AM (#28772724)
Have you tried Samsung Dex?
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