Hi both, thanks for filling me in. I've found the video I saw, watch from 5:00 to 5:20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGJXGJ6Q0Ys
Nathan, from what you say, would I be right in understanding that the scenario imagined in the video is a dumb touchscreen rather than a tablet, then - one which doesn't exist yet and isn't going to exist until well into 2015 at the absolute earliest? So in summary, if I want a decent-sized tablet to use in the meantime, I'm best off getting a Nexus 10 and either using it with Android or with Ubuntu Touch Developer - yes? Thanks! Steve On 30 July 2014 22:30, Benjamin Tegge <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
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