I don’t really care to do any task traditionally associated with full fat computers directly on my phone, simply because the input methods are extremely poor for that kind of thing. If my phone could act like an ultrabook/netbook when hooked up to a screen and proper desktop input on the other hand (similar to DeX, iPadOS 26, and the forthcoming baseline Android desktop mode), that’s a more interesting proposition and probably one that a number of more typical users would find interesting too.

For example, university students whose main use for a computer is editing documents could comfortably get by with nothing but a nice-ish phone, a monitor, and a Bluetooth KB+mouse.

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Almondsetat a day ago | parent | next [-]

Google is said to be in the process of unifying Android and ChromeOs (which can run Linux programs), so your wishes are not that irrealistic (especially since DeX has been around for a while now)

	▲	chrisweekly a day ago \| parent [-]
		cool, good to know also, FYI (and for the sake of non-native English readers), it's "unrealistic". ["irrealistic" relates to irrealism, a literary technique that departs from reality]

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_shantaram a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this thing was so far ahead of its time https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Asus-PadFone-Smartphone...

if it came out today with say 16gb of RAM and used the new Android VM feature I would buy it instantly

	▲	doubled112 a day ago \| parent [-]
		I had an Asus TF700 tablet which had HDMI out and a keyboard dock/touchpad probably about 10 years ago. It could have been a decent concept if the Tegra 3 chipset wasn’t a little underpowered and the onboard storage so slow. On new stuff, a Bluetoothu keyboard and mouse more or less solve input, and USB-C should solve video out (and input if you want). Modern phones should be powerful enough for basic desktop use, I just don’t think people want it.

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fsflover 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> If my phone could act like an ultrabook/netbook when hooked up to a screen

You just described Librem 5.

	▲	cosmic_cheese 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The only problem is its hardware, which even a 5+ year old ultraportable laptop soundly beats and wouldn’t make for a very good desktop experience. The StarLabs tablet would be much better suited here, but it’s also 12.5” which is so large that you may as well just get a laptop with more power and better battery life.