ohgood
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1 Thanks for keeping the discussion legit on your end.
2 You said something, though, about how "dockable phones" didn't do well in sales in the past. I still don't think you fully understand what we mean by the type of docking we are talking about. There has never been a phone that docks in the way we are talking about, period, as the technology has not been available in the past. Technology is now there, but the differing technologies have not yet been set up to work together in order to accomplish such a docking. Would people want it? I can't speak of the masses, but I know a few people in my circle that would drool over the opportunity, including myself. I could easily justify it because I would no longer need to buy a laptop, desktop, phone combo. Just one device with a few peripherals, like monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc.
3 I hope you don't mind if I don't go looking for the people. I'd rather spend some quality time at home with my children and my wife. Thanks.
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1 cool - it's fun, when it's allowed by the moderators.
2 yes, i understand what's possible, sometime, out there, in the future. in the past, when i mentioned the possibility of docking a (it was an android atrix or something at the time? crap phone, crap dock, crap crap crap) phone to be used as a desktop, in the wp section, it was shouted down. i'm not sure if it was a 'not invented here' reaction, or just that it was android. or both, or neither, not sure.
continuing... the concept is neato. the problems arise when real world uses are considered though:
crunching through 1/2Tb of video, the phone rings, and a kid needs to be picked up from school. that crunching still needs to happen, TODAY, but the phone just got pulled from the dock, and is now in a pocket. is it going to continue crunching data (warming up that pocket and killing the battery) or put the task on hold until later ?
scenario two: that CAD file that is 240Mb or so... is going to be rendered with the phone's onboard graphics, on a 27" 2up monitor ? i'm not saying it can't be done, but i don't know if it's possible right now, with the stuff inside phones of today. is it ?
scenario three ( the one that ROCKS): vacation comes, and you have everything on the phone. movies, sat nag ( i mean NAV ), the credit cards, and NFC payments to speed up things at disney.... docking that phone at the suite would be pretty awesome for letting the kids watch their normal nighttime stuff without worrying about channel crap (commercials) they don't need to see. but how will you check up on email/presentations/work while they're using it ?
just real world stuff, and the reasons (today) why people carry a phone and a laptop. twist it up and find a way to make it work. it might, i dunno.
3 i have no interest myself. the point was, when people start showing interest, you'll see them produced and implemented. you'll need droves of them to offset current trends of phone + laptop kind of thinking. not sure how that will come about.