Modern smartphones offer much processing power and speed that they can also be used for desktop applications. There are several companies that make it possible to connect a smart phone on a display, mouse and keyboard in order to serve as an alternative to a desktop computer. Intel presented this week its solution.
Desktop Linux alongside Android
At the Mobile World Congress in 2011, we were very impressed by the Motorola Atrix. This smartphone can be placed in a docking station, after which he can conjure a desktop environment on a monitor. This system, when Motorola Webtop called, but never broken
A year later, Canonical presented a similar solution in the form of Ubuntu for Android. Addition to the Android system can run a real Linux environment on the desktop. This system is not broken.
Microsoft Windows 10 is available Continuum, which basically does the same. When a keyboard, mouse and monitor are connected to a Windows 10 smartphone will start a desktop environment.
Demonstration Intel
At the Mobile World Congress earlier this month Intel also shows left to work on a solution in which Android runs alongside a desktop environment based on Linux (Debian). The prototype smartphone runs on an Intel Atom x3 processor with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. Because Android also runs on a Linux base, this base can be shared with the desktop operating system. This makes it easy to share files and data between the two platforms.
At present it is not possible to use the screen of the device itself when the desktop environment is running, but it is the “image” or displayed on the external monitor. At the next generation of processors, this is possible in accordance with Intel. The company tried at the Mobile World Congress to convince manufacturers of the idea and shows that this solution is already ready for production.
Google plans
do all rumors times circulating that Google plans to merge Android and Chrome OS. These rumors are repeatedly debunked by Google. However, there is a good possibility that Google in a similar way to Microsoft, Canonical, Motorola and Intel plans to provide Android devices Chrome OS is started when a keyboard, mouse and monitor are connected.
in addition to the rumors about Chrome OS we know that Android N improvements will be seen in the area of the tablet display. After the introduction of the pixel C, there were many complaints about that Android would not be suitable as “productivity platform and these changes will probably also increase the ability of Android as a desktop operating system
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