Linux all-in-one phone and computer so near

For six months I longed for the Motorola Atrix Android smartphone first announced in January. That was, until I got one and reality fell short of my utopian vision. Now I must beseech Motorola, telcos and Linux hackers alike to bring my dream to fruition.

The Atrix, you see, was no mere smartphone. It was a super device, capable of replacing your mobile phone, your laptop, your in-car navigation, your desktop computer and home media centre all with one central gadget and smart peripherals.

The one hand

On the one hand, the docks are impressive. The Atrix detects what it has been plugged into and changes behaviour to suit. So, plug it into the windscreen or dash-mounted car dock and it changes from being a typical phone with tiny buttons to a compact mode with six fat man finger-sized options. Swiping left or right gives possibility to add more and more shortcuts however the defaults allow you to call contacts with hands-free mode enabled, invoke Google navigation software in short forth. Indeed, the car dock is pretty good.

Yet, what I in effect was excited by - like as not so much that I neglected to pay attention to the detail - was the laptop dock. This is an in the extreme light-weight dock for the phone which looks like, then, a laptop, or like as not more realistically a netbook. This 11" unit sports a keyboard, screen, touchpad and battery nevertheless no disk or processor of its own.

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