grahamf
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you don't need the dock if the projector/tv supports MHL. You just need a cable that you can get off eBay for $1.
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How come you don't want to acknowledge that continuum can work without a keyboard and mouse? Weight of the dock is negligible compared to a laptop. And the professors i am referring to are from the Philippines (yes, I am from a 3rd world country and continuum, is admittedly, something we can use). These professors prefer to bring their own laptops for presentations rather than stick a usb in the drive, some for security reasons, others cause they don't wanna get malware.
Only if you want to use a mouse and keyboard. Otherwise you can navigate using the phone's screen as a trackpad/keyboard.Correct me if I am wrong but I thought Continuum requires the mouse and the keyboard, as shown in the Microsoft demo.
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. . .The way I see it, Microsoft is peering into the mobile future, where so far, not even Apple has dared to tread and certainly not the other Android manufacturers. Microsoft is extending the traditional boundaries of what a phone ought to be and therefore what the possibilities could be. No wonder some people are struggling to get their heads around it, no-one's done it quite like this before.
The key thing about Continuum is not so much about what it can do when compared with a traditional laptop or tablet, it's more about the power of Windows 10 behind it + the Snapdragon 808, 64-bit Hexa core. That the 950 can do these things at all and still behave like a phone, is truly remarkable. Now, start imagining what else it could do....
Only if you want to use a mouse and keyboard. Otherwise you can navigate using the phone's screen as a trackpad/keyboard.
Which demo did you watch? Even the Asus demo showed how you could pull up a trackpad-like screen to navigate the Desktop.They showed that the phone is free to be used separately while it is connected to the big screen, but I don't think you can control the big screen using the phone.
If they did, they would have showed it during the demo.
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Which demo did you watch? Even the Asus demo showed how you could pull up a trackpad-like screen to navigate the Desktop.
Weight/form factor... Even the lightest laptop is still heavier than a phone.
Picture this: A business has several docks set up around the office. Someone is coming from offsite to do a presentation. No matter, just plug in your phone and bam.. It's right there, on site.
People are so fixated on the now, but really Continuum is about the future. Most people don't need desktops/laptops in their day to day lives, but they need them occasionally... If they can get a phone that truly 100% replaces a PC, that's the phone people will want. In the business world, instead of issuing a phone and a laptop to an employee, you just issue a phone. Less to keep track of and potentially more control from a business perspective.
I'm not saying things are there now, but we're definitely a glimpse of it.
Instead of buying a PC stick for $150 or the Continuum dock for $100, why not just buy a Windows 10 laptop for $150-$200?
Add $230 to that for MS Office please.
Right... so in the future, they'll only issue a phone, not a phone and a laptop.