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	windows7	2011-01-11 , 20:21
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But having a docking station that turns your mobile into a full desktop computer that is all i need, pluging/unpluging cables is nor cool nor is the future, in fact all big flat screen tvs now-a-days have a PC connection, so there is no need to even have a computer screen, just drop the phone into the docking station and you ready to go, you could even have a wireless keyboard and mouse, you could use from the sofa or even in bed

or you can take docking station when you go abroad and plug it into a Tv with a pc connection while abroad.

when Google first announced that they were going to build a free OS, many people in the software industry panic about their job prospects, well this is it, this mobile device and google have made it.

oh by the way, nearly forgot to say, this device also has 4G broadband connection, that is faster than most you get in your fast home broadband connection, shame 4G is still only available in a hand full of areas, but then again 3g is more then enough for most of us

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zimon	2011-01-11 , 20:40
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Originally Posted by windows7

But having a docking station that turns your mobile into a full desktop computer that is all i need, pluging/unpluging cables is nor cool nor is the future
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or you can take docking station when you go abroad and plug it into a Tv with a pc connection while abroad.

There still is those same HDMI+microUSB-connectors to plug with or without docking station. Without you can get smaller package to carry around when you would have only Bluetooth keyboard and mouse plus HDMI-cable.

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sjgadsby	2011-01-11 , 20:51
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The thread "The future of mobile devices is here - how cool is this?" (5 posts) has been merged into this thread.

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	windows7	2011-01-11 , 21:05
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someone posted a insteresting comment in the engadget comments as follow:

has anyone else realized that atrix is matrix without an m, cause it blew my mind!

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gerbick	2011-01-11 , 21:12
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Originally Posted by Jade Robertson

I'm afraid to say that, the N900 is falling back....

I'd say the announcement of MeeGo some 6 months into the life cycle of the N900, the WONTFIX issues, the shift from having Flash Player 10.1 being shown at Adobe MAX to never appearing and the controversy therein, the lack of an official update from Maemo 5 to MeeGo 1.x... I'd say that the N900 fell back quite a while back.

The denial was just too damn heavy.

Only the community based projects are worthwhile on Maemo 5 now.

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zimon	2011-01-11 , 21:24
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Originally Posted by windows7

someone posted a insteresting comment in the engadget comments as follow:

has anyone else realized that atrix is matrix without an m, cause it blew my mind!

N900 is HAL 9000 if you replace N with HAL and multiply with x10, but it does not blow my mind.

Atrix is cool, but nothing really revolutionary new.

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linuxeventually	2011-01-12 , 04:19
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Not really shocking. When it was first announced (before it was blogged and re-blogged to death) a google search for "atrix" redirected to "matrix" (and not just "did you mean matrix?" it didn't ask, you then had to insist that you wanted to search for "atrix", that really annoys me -_-)

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	benlau	2011-01-13 , 02:25
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Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt

There's already a topic for this, but it's off-topic as it's in General forum.

This is the Motorola Atrix 4G smartphone:

What's interesting about this smartphone is not that it's running a Tegra 2, but that it is the modular computational-unit that can be placed in a dock, or a laptop-shell to make it act in more of a PC-like manner.

This is most impressive. While underpowered for a laptop, it's certainly good enough to do basic tasks. What's more is that the next generation ARM should put this combination on par with ATOMs which can run desktop apps reliably.

I would like to see this concept extend to a tablet-shell. Basically you get a smartphone and tablet in a single device. Add an extender battery for added life and you get a smartphone and tablet for [presumably] much less than the two alone.

Check out the video at the link above. It runs very well on a 24" screen.

What do you think?

I really love this idea!! What a amazing devices! I am interested to get a one when it is launched.

However, I wonder what happen when it is plugged into the 10" Netbook docking. That will show multiple Android application in the same time or just change it to full screen?

The UX of mobile and netbook is totally different. It may be trouble to use a mobile application in netbook.

May be MeeGo is more suitable for this concept. As you could run mobile application (Nokia driven) and netbook application(Intel driven) on the same device.

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	speculatrix	2011-01-20 , 18:03
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Originally Posted by linuxeventually

it is unclear if Motorola will lock the bootloader (probably)

yes: http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/...g-Down-Android

however, when docked, it appears to be running plain old ubuntu, which depending on how they've done it might be the device's security's achilles heel.

--edit: slashdot comment--
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments....2&cid=34936278

maybe a sim-free one bought as unlocked will be less locked down? one can hope, but I don't think so.

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wmarone	2011-01-20 , 18:10
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Originally Posted by speculatrix

however, when docked, it appears to be running plain old ubuntu, which depending on how they've done it might be the device's security's achilles heel.

The security system they're using has no achilles heel, short of someone leaking Motorola's private key or a lucky, early hit on the encryption key.