Paying 2 Gs for a folding Android phablet is crazy. Paying 2 Gs for Windows on ARM with the ability to also use it as a primary communications device without having to tote a tablet or 2-in-1 is pushing the boundaries of justifiable. I'm sure Road Warriors won't have an issue with this especially if they can convince their company to foot the bill. Having 1 less bag to get through TSA is almost worth the price of admission.
Well yeah, that should be pretty obvious. There's a niche market for a windows core device with a stylus - note-takers and people who are frequently "micro-productive", like journalists/media, people in meetings, salespeople, sketch artists etc.
I can see no real point at all in a 2,000 dollar dual screen android device. Nobodies going to pay that to watch Netflix or game, with a crease in the middle. And creaseless is many many years off (as soon as graphene is cheap to make, everyone will be able to do it at once).
Hell, people wouldn't pay 2,000 for a creaseless design if could only run android. Chrome I could understand. Android? No point.
And as I explain above, and seem to need to do repeatedly these days because people listen to rumour mills and don't know crap about the technology, creaseless screens are not on the cards this year, next year, or the year after.
If there is a tech breakthrough in the manufacture of graphene, because its a key technology to an entire nanotechnology tech revolution, it'll be all across every science magazine in existence, you won't miss it. A breakthrough in graphene manufacture -That would be bigger than the invention of the microprocessor.
I'm just going to list a few things graphene can be used for eventually, to give everyone an idea.
*No energy water desalination for hydrogen fuel and drinking water
*No energy water purification and environmental clean up
*Chemical manufacture
*Nanotubes for manfacturing, such as chemical printers, and eventually matter printers
*Super high efficiency solar panels resulting in a theoretical 150 percent increase in efficiency
*Tuneable lazer light
*Nano-battery technology for batteries you can fit in a flat bit of graphene plastic (ie computer paper batteries
*Nano circuitry and nano-chipsets, for CPU's you can fit in a flat bit of plastic (ie processors for computer paper)
Graphene can also be made to be basically bullet proof, so anything made with graphene will be close to indestructible which of course can also be used for planes, vehicles, space ships and so on.....
As you can see, if anyone comes up with a cheap way to make graphene, there is no way you could miss it if you pay any attention to technology.
Such a method of manufacture, would open the key to a doorway scientists have being dying to cross for over a decade - graphene will literally be one of the main keys to a good chuck of all human technology at some point.
So please A) stop moaning about a lack of flying cars/personal robots or folding screens B) Stop claiming Samsung or some other outfit is going to release a creaseless graphene design next year.
Be patient. Science takes time. We live in an amazing rich, and technology filled time, and will see many amazing advances in our lifetime. But they don't lurch from early studies and proto's into fully fledged consumer products to moment you hear about it and get a bit excited.