ARM Demonstrates Seamless Computing

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ARM has published a new video demonstrating what it thinks will be the future of computing. It foresees the day when our smartphone will one day be our "true primary compute device", which will smartly change modes depending upon its context/location.

 

 

With smartphones growing stronger every year it's only a matter of time before most typical consumers no longer need an alternative machine.

[Albatross]

I hate smartphones. Besides that, I don't think what they believe will happen will actually happen...at least not in the foreseeable future.

[MegaDave91]

I refuse to give up the traditional desktop!

[Octagoncow]

This reminds me of the Ubuntu Edge which never came out. You could plug it in and run a Linux desktop environment. I think it's going to be quite a while before this becomes practical though.

[kpreg]

Just a little something to make us look smarter than the rest...

one time my friend cleared the cmos on a school computer (he didn't know it) and I asked him if he knew what the cmos is and he pointed at the cd drive....

[Toddwjp]

I think this will be nice for public 'desktop' terminals. But at home, I got WD Purples and want to play demanding games. I don't think a phone can handle that.

 

remember this is what they envision for general consumers. gamers and other special uses are not considered general use

[Builder]

Most people don't need or want to do that. Phablets are plenty. The monitor is just extra.

[Sidiox]

I know quite a few people for who their smartphone is already all they end and only have a laptop for writing word docs. So if Office Mobile matures, you can hook up external monitors and use wireless peripherals then those people only need their phones. Most high end android phones are easily powerful enough for their needs.

[Guest]

Heh, that's funny.

I'm going in the exact opposite direction since I don't like smartphones and just yesterday installed an Android emulator on my x86 powered desktop.

Screw you, limp-wristed mobile scrubs! Victory through superior firepower!

[Jasmin]

Hmm... I believe that at some point in the future smarthphone, or smaller, size device will have all the computing power we may need at hand without a laboratory... BUT, I'd like to point out that for the forseeable future we are facing a reverse trend - 90's and early 2000's faced the craze of computers getting smaller and smaller, finally arriving at today's office destkops and laptops and, to some extent, smartphones, but in the meantime we have seen the push towards using the old space requirements or even pushing toward bigger towers in order to pursue superior performance, life expectancy and noise levels. While average Mr. Smith can easily perfom all of his daily tasks on a sweetspot phone, we still have a large group of powerusers, pushing for more and more and it's a growing, not shrinking, market