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Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Post by type0 » Tue, May 16, 2017, 3:25 PM UTC

Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone
maruos.com

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Post by LeoNatan25 » Tue, May 16, 2017, 4:33 PM UTC

“Maru is a new kind of computing experience.”

Is it? This type of “All Your PC Are Belong To Phone” type of fads have been attempted (and so far, miserably failed) for many, many years now. Looking at the website, I see little reason why this should succeed where others have failed.

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Post by falcolas » Tue, May 16, 2017, 4:34 PM UTC

I really wish this was a viable option, but the lack of active cooling (and mediocre passive cooling) for phones really makes the phone-as-desktop a non-starter for anything but light web browsing or text editing.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 16, 2017, 4:36 PM UTC

LeoNatan25 wrote: post #2

“Maru is a new kind of computing experience.” Is it? This type of “All Your PC Are Belong To Phone” type of fads have been attempted (and so far, miserably failed) for many, many years now. Looking at the website, I see little reason why this should succeed where others have failed.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 16, 2017, 4:36 PM UTC

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Post by Callmenorm » Tue, May 16, 2017, 4:36 PM UTC

I think it might succeed because it's built on Android with Android apps.

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Post by AdmiralAsshat » Tue, May 16, 2017, 4:41 PM UTC

  Shared storage
  
  SD card data like camera photos and downloads are shared so you can coordinate your work seamlessly.

This might be confusing for some, given that the only devices supported right now are Nexus devices, which famously lack an SD slot.

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Post by ksubedi » Tue, May 16, 2017, 4:42 PM UTC

falcolas wrote: post #3

I really wish this was a viable option, but the lack of active cooling (and mediocre passive cooling) for phones really makes the phone-as-desktop a non-starter for anything but light web browsing or text editing.

But if you think about it, the use case for almost 80% of the people out there that use laptops or desktops is for web browsing and office work (text editing etc) which phones should be able to handle well.

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Post by slobotron » Tue, May 16, 2017, 4:43 PM UTC

LeoNatan25 wrote: post #2

“Maru is a new kind of computing experience.” Is it? This type of “All Your PC Are Belong To Phone” type of fads have been attempted (and so far, miserably failed) for many, many years now. Looking at the website, I see little reason why this should succeed where others have failed.

Motorola webtop on Atrix was too early - phones were just too slow for even basic browsing in Firefox in laptop mode.

Perhaps Maru is smooth enough on new hardware?

(Still have the lapdock lying around, now hooked into RPi.)

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Post by benologist » Tue, May 16, 2017, 4:43 PM UTC

falcolas wrote: post #3

I really wish this was a viable option, but the lack of active cooling (and mediocre passive cooling) for phones really makes the phone-as-desktop a non-starter for anything but light web browsing or text editing.

The future doesn't look so bleak, Microsoft already made a phone with water cooling -

https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/215724-microsoft-announce...

And desktops are emerging without fans too -

http://www.fanlesstech.com