I don't understand why in 2020 ability to dock and connect to K&M and display is not supported by most phones. There were attempts to do just that right before Windows Phone died, but hardly anyone tried this again. You now have enough RAM and CPU to run most desktop applications except maybe high end gaming. Why is it not done more?
I don't understand why in 2020 ability to dock and connect to K&M and display is not supported by most phones.
Because people don't use it. It's been there as a feature before and it's hardly driving sales for those that support it. What workflows do you have that demonstrate the value here?
There were attempts to do just that right before Windows Phone died, but hardly anyone tried this again.
Samsung still have it, it's called Dex.
You now have enough RAM and CPU to run most desktop applications except maybe high end gaming. Why is it not done more?
Can you run all your desktop programs on it? Probably not. Also UIs that work well for one input method generally don't work well for the next so you need to also have adaptive UIs. How many examples of this done well are there?
I seem to remember Motorola had some laptop chassis thing that w
I don't understand why in 2020 ability to dock and connect to K&M and display is not supported by most phones.
Because people don't use it. It's been there as a feature before and it's hardly driving sales for those that support it. What workflows do you have that demonstrate the value here?
There are enough people that only use a dozen applications during work and none of them are computationally intensive. There is no reason to buy them a laptop if a phone docking station would do it. The issue is not CPU power but battery, screen size and inputs, all of these could be easily solved with by docking.
There are enough people that only use a dozen applications during work and none of them are computationally intensive. There is no reason to buy them a laptop if a phone docking station would do it. The issue is not CPU power but battery, screen size and inputs, all of these could be easily solved with by docking.
Why buy them a phone, a docking station, a keyboard and a mouse when you can just buy them a laptop? Oh you want them to use their personal phone for work to save you money?
Docking smartphones (Score:5, Interesting)
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I don't understand why in 2020 ability to dock and connect to K&M and display is not supported by most phones.
Because people don't use it. It's been there as a feature before and it's hardly driving sales for those that support it. What workflows do you have that demonstrate the value here?
There were attempts to do just that right before Windows Phone died, but hardly anyone tried this again.
Samsung still have it, it's called Dex.
You now have enough RAM and CPU to run most desktop applications except maybe high end gaming. Why is it not done more?
Can you run all your desktop programs on it? Probably not. Also UIs that work well for one input method generally don't work well for the next so you need to also have adaptive UIs. How many examples of this done well are there?
I seem to remember Motorola had some laptop chassis thing that w
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I don't understand why in 2020 ability to dock and connect to K&M and display is not supported by most phones.
Because people don't use it. It's been there as a feature before and it's hardly driving sales for those that support it. What workflows do you have that demonstrate the value here?
There are enough people that only use a dozen applications during work and none of them are computationally intensive. There is no reason to buy them a laptop if a phone docking station would do it. The issue is not CPU power but battery, screen size and inputs, all of these could be easily solved with by docking.
Re:Docking smartphones (Score:2)
There are enough people that only use a dozen applications during work and none of them are computationally intensive. There is no reason to buy them a laptop if a phone docking station would do it. The issue is not CPU power but battery, screen size and inputs, all of these could be easily solved with by docking.
Why buy them a phone, a docking station, a keyboard and a mouse when you can just buy them a laptop? Oh you want them to use their personal phone for work to save you money?