[no1youknowz]

Anyone remember the Ubuntu Edge? [0]

Perhaps with todays announcement, a bit into the future we will see a new class of phone that unfolds into a tablet and even docks to a screen with accompanying magic keyboard and trackpad.

I know, it's a real shame that I am probably dreaming. But Apple will probably never release a similar phone as it'll cannibalise one of the other products.

Maybe someone can prod shuttleworth again and see if the time for this idea can be realised? I'm sure soon it will be.

I also hope that this trend of arm minimization can continue so an idea like morph [1] will one day be come also.

[0] - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs

[diffeomorphism]

> Perhaps with todays announcement, a bit into the future we will see a new class of phone that unfolds into a tablet and even docks to a screen with accompanying magic keyboard and trackpad.

Or the motorola phones before that or the windows version of that or the nokia n900 or maruos or ubuntu touch or... . This has been tried many times before, so I am skeptical that just "a bit into the future" will finally be the time.

[andor]

Samsung phones can do that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_DeX

Samsung even offered a full Ubuntu desktop for the phones, but stopped supporting it rather quickly.

[indymike]

I sometimes plug in my Android Phone to a USB-C dock (with a keyboard, mouse and monitor) and use it like a desktop. Android has a desktop mode that is actually surprisingly nice. It's like Dex, but doesn't do the remote desktop via USB thing... It just displays on the monitor.