New Dock Lets Windows 10 Phone Be a Desktop
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A new docking unit from Microsoft allows a Windows 10 phone be used as a desktop PC. This seems odd, to me, since Microsoft has been supporting the Windows Phone so poorly as of late with their software going to iOS and Android so much earlier. It is a neat idea and I could see this really taking off, especially for casual home users who just don't want to own a computer anymore.
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Why didn't @David-Scammell break this news?
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I agree @StrongBad It will be interesting.
Perhaps @scottalanmiller could just ship a monitor to where ever he is going and use a phone for the computer... now to make sure that things like RDP, Putty, etc work on it.
Heck I want RSAT on there!
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A monitor is the part that I cant deal with now
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They demoed it at Spiceworld London during the Windows 10 session. Kind of old news
They called it continuum back then.
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@scottalanmiller said:
A monitor is the part that I cant deal with now
Are monitors not purchasable local? Granted $250 every month or so (assuming you move that much) on a new monitor might not be desirable.
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@Breffni-Potter said:
They demoed it at Spiceworld London during the Windows 10 session. Kind of old news
They called it continuum back then.
I was surprised he didn't call it continuum during this demo.
Yeah the news was old hat.. but the demo was pretty cool.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
A monitor is the part that I cant deal with now
Are monitors not purchasable local? Granted $250 every month or so (assuming you move that much) on a new monitor might not be desirable.
Yeah, not a good option. And no idea how I would buy one. There aren't exactly computer stores in the third world. There are Internet cafes full of 1990s CRTs and that is about it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
A monitor is the part that I cant deal with now
Are monitors not purchasable local? Granted $250 every month or so (assuming you move that much) on a new monitor might not be desirable.
Yeah, not a good option. And no idea how I would buy one. There aren't exactly computer stores in the third world. There are Internet cafes full of 1990s CRTs and that is about it.
aww.. yeah, that's no good. So they have decent internet access, but 20-30 year old computers?
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Yes, anyone with money brings computers in from somewhere else. Presumably you could buy them far away in the capital, which is a huge city (Managua) but out here in Granada we are very remote and you can buy almost nothing here. It's not like there are normal stores here. Even buying clothes would be a challenge. We were just discussing with a company here that they are unable to source faucets in the country and people have considered smuggling them in luggage from other countries!
I am not even sure how to buy an apple here (the fruit) let alone a mouse (computer component.) Things like cell phones and Internet are solid because they are government infrastructure. But getting computer parts is pretty much impossible.
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Most of the Internet is for tourists and expats who are bringing in computers from the States and Mexico anyway. Little need to sell them here. And everyone uses laptops because they traveled in with them. So it is a compounding problem.
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And now Crazy AJ's makes a little more sense
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Didn't Ubuntu conceptualize this previously?
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@gjacobse said:
Didn't Ubuntu conceptualize this previously?
Yep, Canonical showed the idea off several years ago. I think I was still in college at the time. They never got the investors they were looking for though and the project died.
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@coliver said:
@gjacobse said:
Didn't Ubuntu conceptualize this previously?
Yep, Canonical showed the idea off several years ago. I think I was still in college at the time. They never got the investors they were looking for though and the project died.
Because it just isn't a useful thing to do. It's neat but.... who would actually use this?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@gjacobse said:
Didn't Ubuntu conceptualize this previously?
Yep, Canonical showed the idea off several years ago. I think I was still in college at the time. They never got the investors they were looking for though and the project died.
Because it just isn't a useful thing to do. It's neat but.... who would actually use this?
Right, I could see some fairly limited use cases but beyond that it would just be for the "cool" factor.
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Why wouldn't this be useful? You could have one device for your computer at work, then use it as a phone on the go.. and then use it as a computer at home.
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The XL model is fully as powerful as many low end laptops. I see a large segment of people that will use something like this as a single device instead of having more than one.
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@Dashrender said:
Why wouldn't this be useful? You could have one device for your computer at work, then use it as a phone on the go.. and then use it as a computer at home.
I can see someone thinking that that is valuable, but very, very few. What part of what you describe sounds awesome? I already have access to my data in those places. Unless I'm super poor and work for a company that is super poor and can't afford desktops I'm unsure where the value comes in. I don't want my business using my phone as my desktop, I don't want everything stored on my phone. The only people I see thinking this is useful are those that don't want computers at all and are looking to plug this into their TV for that rare case where they need a little more than the phone interface offers but don't care enough to own even a single computer at home.
