It’s high time we were able to come home and place our mobile phones in a dock that’s connected to a display, keyboard and mouse, and have it turn into a full-fledged desktop and laptop replacement. Mobile phones have sufficient computing power for most of our needs, they have the apps most of us use on desktops as well, and there are incredible energy savings to be had. Hardware manufacturers need to start making sincere, concerted efforts toward this end.
You may also want to read through this post of mine, where I tried my best to use a tablet (an iPad) as my main computer, only to be frustrated to no end by the lack of common ammenities and functionalities we’ve come to expect on desktops and laptops, simple things such as the use of a mouse, drag-and-drop functionality between folders, a finder/file explorer and the ability to easily access drives and files on the network.
I realize that people who engage in heavy computing on a daily basis, such as 4K video editing, 3D graphics and 3D video rendering, large-scale CAD projects, serious coding that requires powerful compilers and other such tasks, will still need very powerful desktop computers and even small server farms in order to do their jobs and I am in no way suggesting that they start using mobile phones to do their work.
We simply have to acknowledge that the majority of the population that uses computers can do just fine with the computing power of a mobile phone. I’m talking about the people who mostly check their email, use social networking sites and apps for social networking sites, plus some online banking and take casual photos and videos. What if all those people were able to use their mobiles phones as replacement desktops or replacement laptops? Wouldn’t that be a significant cost savings to them?
Looking at the greater picture, if all those people, or at least a significant portion of them did this, wouldn’t that translate into significant energy savings for cities, counties, states and countries? Aren’t we always talking about reducing our carbon footprint? Well, instead of using a laptop that consumes about 60W when plugged in, or a desktop that eats up about 200W, give or take, why not use a mobile phone that consumes 3-5W when plugged in?
Raoul Pop 
Kinda like this… https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mobile/accessory/hd-500/
But it never really did take off. Wrong brand of phone. The right brand of phone is probably the iPhone. But why would Apple want to produce a product that eats into sales of Macs and iPads? That would make little commercial sense. For now anyway…
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I know, I talked about it in the video. It’s a good start. It still needs work but efforts are being made to make it better. There’s also something for Android phones: http://www.trustedreviews.com/how-tos/how-to-turn-your-android-smartphone-into-a-pc
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This is a topic that has been tackled in the past. I remember some holographic screen and keyboard projecting tech marvel presented some years back where the commentators would, in awe, lay down a grand for that kind of device immediately. It seems like the handheld expandable computers just were not such a good match to the needs of the population.
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I think you’re missing the point of my post entirely but hey, that’s fine, it’s your right to go off on your own tangent.
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unferstood
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