I think there is a misconception here. To my knowledge, pairing two hosts like you described has never been directly mentioned before.
Also "docking" may be a misleading term, as it suggests that a dock or cradle and special connectors are required. "Convergence" or converged desktop experience is what has been shown in videos last year on the Nexus 4 [1][2]. Convergence gives you a full desktop experience when you connect standard peripheral hardware (monitor, keyboard, mouse) to your phone. Victor Palau is using a portable monitor in his video. While portable monitors and tablets may look similar, tablets usually have no video input functionality. Regards, Benjamin 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk9-v8Sl4yU "Ubuntu Edge: convergence in action (Victor Palau)" 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtNhlVn3ETQ "Ubuntu Edge: the software story (Leann Ogasawara)" Am Mittwoch, den 30.07.2014, 14:02 +0100 schrieb Steve Smith: > Hi all, I'm a long-time Ubuntu user and really excited to have an > Ubuntu phone in my hand by the end of the year. From what I've seen, > you're doing an awesome job! > > > I've seen mention of docking a phone to a tablet (possibly on a video > with Mark?). I'm guessing that it won't be something available in the > first public release, but when you get to it how to you anticipate it > working? Would it be an actual tablet also running Ubuntu, that is > just synced to the storage on the phone? Or would it be a special > dumb touchscreen (rather than an actual tablet) that the phone just > plugs into and the software continues to run on the phone itself - > much like docking with an external monitor? > > > The reason I ask is I'm looking into buying an Android tablet and > would like to future-proof myself for when docking becomes possible. > > > Thanks! > Steve -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
