The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99
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The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99
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Re: The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99
#2I find this project quite interesting.
Do you think it could provide a good development environment?
I was thinking that with something like Eclipse che this could be useful when traveling
Re: The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99
#3I think this is the future. One device that works everywhere. Ubuntu tried it unsuccessfully. I doubt this one will succeed either. But eventually someone will.
Re: The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99
#4Can anyone comment on the likelihood of being able to create this for the amount they propose?
I have been burned by hardware devices on kickstarter, and I have heard my hardware friends say that it is much harder, and sometimes they can tell right away that they cannot deliver the product for the amount raised.
I don't know if that is true here or not. Just wondering if someone knows if this can be done.
(I know, keyboards and monitors already exist.)
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#5Kind of like webtop.
http://www.geek.com/mobile/motorola-webtop-3-0-brings-ics-to...
Not sure why the idea didn't pan out. Maybe lack of apps that translated to the bigger screen.
Re: The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99
#6Can anyone comment on the likelihood of being able to create this for the amount they propose? I have been burned by hardware devices on kickstarter, and I have heard my hardware friends say that it is much harder, and sometimes they can tell right away that they cannot deliver the product for the amount raised. I don't know if that is true here or not. Just wondering if someone knows if this can be done. (I know, ke…
I'm normally pretty skeptical as well, but this is simply a previous-generation commodity display, a charging circuit, battery, a basic logic board and a usb-C port. Component cost wise, it would probably be under $50 at any scale.
Re: The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99
#7Can anyone comment on the likelihood of being able to create this for the amount they propose? I have been burned by hardware devices on kickstarter, and I have heard my hardware friends say that it is much harder, and sometimes they can tell right away that they cannot deliver the product for the amount raised. I don't know if that is true here or not. Just wondering if someone knows if this can be done. (I know, ke…
Given the parts look like they're off a bargain basement chrome book just without the expensive processor and ssd, the hardware will be low quality, but they can probably hit the $100 price point.
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#8What is the advantage of this over something like a Chromebook? It seems like throwing a phone-grade CPU in it and giving it a little more capability would be more worthwhile than being completely dependent upon a tethered phone.
Re: The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99
#9Kind of like webtop. http://www.geek.com/mobile/motorola-webtop-3-0-brings-ics-to... Not sure why the idea didn't pan out. Maybe lack of apps that translated to the bigger screen.
I still have the Atrix 4G and the Moto Lapdock. Amazing tech, ahead of the time. With the current smartphones, with multiple cores and 3-4Gb RAM, this would have worked like a charm. Webtop was nice, but lacked the processing power.
This thing is cute, but Motorola may have some patents on the technology.
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#10MSFT has the "phone becomes a computer" with Continuum already: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/Continuum (but you need a Lumia... :| )
Having a laptop form factor is very interesting though - it brings in a lot of questions too. Is it a dumb peripheral? What does it need access to on the phone?