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Re: Ubuntu on phones Canonical thinks it looks great

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On 2014-02-23, tdk <forum.tdk@squte.com> wrote:
> One trick Ubuntu have really missed is being able to switch smoothly
> between the desktop and the phone.  For example suppose you're writing
> an email on your phone on the train. When you get to work you'd like
> to carry on writing it on your PC.  So you put your phone in a holder,
> and the same screen pops up on your desktop so you can carry on
> seamlessly except with a bigger screen and keyboard.  Or suppose
> you're browsing the web on your phone. When you get home, you put your
> phone in it's cradle and the web browser pops up on the screen with
> the same tabs open at the same place on the monitor.
>
> Phone OS and app developers spend a lot of time working on 'sync'ing
> between phone, cloud, and desktop. Despite this most apps don't sync
> and you have to have separate copies on your PC and phone, each set up
> differently, or use a web-based system like google docs.  For some
> apps like Evernote the main selling point is that it syncs between
> your devices.  OTOH if your desktop was just your phone, that happened
> to be using a full screen, keyboard, hard disc, etc, there would be no
> need to 'sync' , all your apps would have the same settings on both.
> People would be willing to spend more on a phone alone than a phone +
> PC, so phone makers should love this.  Ubuntu is in a unique position
> to do this, and if they don't then eventually apple will.
>

Agree.  In the same vein, though slightly different (maybe that's as far
as the technology has gotten so far) is an Android device by ASUS:
basically a smartphone that is in my opinion just like the bulk of the
Android phones on the market.  But the phone slides *into* a tablet,
providing the CPU to run the Android tablet.  Then the tablet slides
into a decent keyboard, and you've got a laptop.  Mind you, when sitting
at the laptop you're still limited by whatever constraints provided by
the original device (the phone).  But it would allow you to keep going
on the same activity/document while moving from one form factor to
another.

I didn't buy one (was seduced by the Note 3 instead) but I considered
them strongly when I was looking for a new toy.

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Ubuntu on phones: Canonical thinks it looks great RS Wood  <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-23 09:42 +0000
  Re: Ubuntu on phones  Canonical thinks it looks great "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-23 07:58 +0000
    Re: Ubuntu on phones  Canonical thinks it looks great RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-23 15:18 +0000
      Re: Ubuntu on phones  Canonical thinks it looks great "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-23 17:47 +0000
    Re: Ubuntu on phones  Canonical thinks it looks great Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-23 17:35 +0000

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