NexPhone: One device to rule them all • Hacker News Board

Re: NexPhone: One device to rule them all

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Post by elboru » Tue, Sep 11, 2012, 4:18 PM UTC

I'm not sure if this will be the best solution for the problem. But I do belive that in some point we'll have a sort of device like this one.

Must of us (pragmatic programmers, hackers, entrepreneurs) are always looking for resource efficiency, we're always looking for DRY. The way we manage our devices is broken, why do I need to install 4 times every single app in my ipad, android phone, PC and laptop? Why do I need 4 different processors, why do I need RAM distributed through all my devices?

I think this is a great idea, and we hackers would love it. But this solution may have some downsides though. I think there must be a single OS for both PC and Mobile, it just should change its interface, and I'm not sure if the power of my phone would be enough for a PC experience yet, anyways I hope this idea come to reality soon!

Re: NexPhone: One device to rule them all

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Post by jiggy2011 » Tue, Sep 11, 2012, 4:37 PM UTC

MartinCron wrote: post #28

jiggy2011 wrote: post #10

This has all the trappings of something that sounds like a good idea in theory but will most likely falter in the marketplace. Considering how cheap you can get a laptop or tablet these days with a much faster CPU, more memory etc than a smartphone. Also considering that it's going to be a pain in the ass to go around hooking/unhooking your phone from every device that you want to use. The software for each device is…

It reminds me of the Amphicar. It was both a car and a boat! What a great idea! Only it wasn't a very good car, and it wasn't a very good boat. This project seems to want to be a car + boat + airplane + truck.

It's probably worse than that. It's more like saying "hey, you have a motorcycle, here's a trailer that adds a row of seats so you can use it as a car. And here's another trailer that you can add to turn it into a haulage vehicle."

Re: NexPhone: One device to rule them all

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Post by mdonahoe » Tue, Sep 11, 2012, 6:23 PM UTC

Even if this guy was legit and the product worked as advertised, I still think it is a terrible idea.

Having multiple devices is useful. If they need to shared data, do it wireslessly, or through the cloud.

Otherwise I have these empty husks lying around my house that are useless without my phone.

The motorola atrix "lapdock" is a similar product idea. It is 78% on sale on amazon. I hated it the moment I saw it.

http://www.amazon.com/AT-Laptop-Dock-Motorola-ATRIX/dp/B004M...

Re: NexPhone: One device to rule them all

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Post by freehunter » Tue, Sep 11, 2012, 7:11 PM UTC

IanDrake wrote: post #13

The wrong edges are rounded :(

Also the screen sticks out of the front of the phone in a design that looks ready to snag everything: the inside of your pocket, the corner of your ear, the webbing between your fingers. That looks seriously painful, and I can see the screen getting hit from the side and shattering/chipping.

Re: NexPhone: One device to rule them all

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Post by freehunter » Tue, Sep 11, 2012, 7:21 PM UTC

brittohalloran wrote: post #18

Do not sink your money into this vaporware (it's a flexible funding campaign, so he gets any money that is pledged, even if he doesn't hit the goal). There's a reason why the Apples / Samsungs / Motorolas / Sonys of the world have hundreds of people working on new phones. This single dude doesn't have a prayer in the world of pulling this off. The two red flags: 1. No functional device. Just some renders and a physic…

Also of note: this new product is an old product originally shopped around in April 2011 [1].

The company is called Kosmaz Technologies (they own voipvoip.com) and the phone used to be called the Compufon. It was supposed to be launched in Q4 2011. It was vaporware then, it's probably vaporware now. Having it set to flex funding just makes me believe this is a cheap trick to get cash and run. No doubt he'll be back again next year with a slightly updated design.

[1] http://phandroid.com/2011/04/19/compufon-attempts-to-be-a-sm...