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Posted January 10, 2013
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Wishbone: Expansion on the concept: Tablet docking station. Basically just a touchscreen with a battery that you can slide your smartphone into, effectively making it a tablet.
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Wishbone: Small update on this concept. Asus beat me to the punch. I just thought it up as a neat idea, but it turns out they had already made it: http://www.asus.com/Mobile/PadFone2/
Quite a good looking device and good characteristics for both phone and tablet.
Posted January 10, 2013
I didn't think I would watch the whole thing, but I did! Pretty cool.
Posted January 10, 2013
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ZYZKryten: The important point here is.
Who says good grief anymore?
Hey now! It's a perfectly good phrase!

Heck, I'll even break out a "golly gee willikers" every once in a while!
Posted January 10, 2013
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Wishbone: Now your phone is both your phone, your tablet and your computer.
Asus PadPhone?

EDIT: Ah, dammit, you already mentioned that yourself (but the first model, attached, also has a keyboard, making it a laptop as well as a tablet and phone).
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Post edited January 10, 2013 by Miaghstir
Posted January 10, 2013
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mushy101: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nh2NSLgaII
Of course, google made android, but it's thanks to it's partners (AND the bloody brilliant dev community) that made it into an incredibly expansive and customizable OS.

I'm floored with this, and I have had years with andriod and it's various flashing, rooting, hacking aspects. I understood that mobile tech and software is incredibly, rapidly expanding to full computer laptop/desktop levels but all this wasn't possible just a year ago.

I went in skeptical and ready to pick out the first disadvantage/limitation, compared to a full laptop. There were some, small ones but consistently I was surprised at the usefulness of a device you can fit in your pocket. Yes, you can fit in in your pocket as long as you don't wear those silly skintight jeans.

The ui was choppy at points, and only because he was running a litany of additions, fonts, and two app launchers over stock android, which is buried under samsung's touchwiz skin. All on a gpu that's a year old, smaller then your finger tip and most likely being heavily used at all times. Talk about heavy lifting.

Games rendering is still not great over hdmi, but with A15 arm processors out next year and with even better gpu's coming out, I reckon within a year or two we'll have constant 60 fps ui interaction and 30fps gameplay over hdmi.

I was considering a nexus device upgrade next year to replace my current one but this video has made me seriously think about not following that path. The note 3, complete with 1080p res very well might be better then the google phone.

Now I'm going to watch it again, because dammit why wouldn't you.
My buddy just bought one of these, it really is that amazing.
Posted January 10, 2013
good grief- isnt the term used when you boss just fired you but got hit by a train, and you at that moment are in a stance of good grief
Post edited January 10, 2013 by djranis
Posted January 10, 2013
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djranis: good grief- isnt the term used when you boss just fired you but got hit by a train, and you at that moment are in a stance of good grief
Not really, it's what one says when one can't believe what they're seeing because it's so unbelievably stupid. you're not likely to say that if you're about to be hit by a train.
Posted January 10, 2013
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djranis: good grief- isnt the term used when you boss just fired you but got hit by a train, and you at that moment are in a stance of good grief
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hedwards: Not really, it's what one says when one can't believe what they're seeing because it's so unbelievably stupid. you're not likely to say that if you're about to be hit by a train.
typo mistake in my post, i meant your boss fires you and he(the boss) gets hit by a train,

thanks for the clear up on good grief,
Posted January 11, 2013
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Wishbone: Expansion on the concept: Tablet docking station. Basically just a touchscreen with a battery that you can slide your smartphone into, effectively making it a tablet.
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Wishbone: Small update on this concept. Asus beat me to the punch. I just thought it up as a neat idea, but it turns out they had already made it: http://www.asus.com/Mobile/PadFone2/
I've come to like what ASUS does. While I'm not the biggest fan of tablets, I still think e.g. the ASUS Transformer I bought over a year ago is very good design overall (the keyboard docking station acts also as an extra battery, it (the docking station, not the tablet itself unfortunately) has USB ports that recognize USB mice and memory sticks normally even NTFS formatted, etc.).

Not to mention my ASUS G75VW laptop, with which I've been quite happy. Some small quirks like some odd BIOS/UEFI changes (e.g. it is a bit unclear how to disable/enable UEFI secure boot with the newer versions, earlier there was a clear option to disable/enable it), the internal sound speaker system was sometimes glitchy (e.g. if you connected headphones, sometimes the speakers were not muted etc., I think this has been fixed now though, and 99% of the time I use better quality USB speakers (Logitech V20) anyway).

I've grown to like and trust them the same way like I trust Logitech for PC peripherals.
Posted January 11, 2013
I do still say "good grief", but then again I still say "alter Schwede" in German, which is pretty much the same thing.

I don't actually hear many people say "good grief" in the UK nowadays though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2nKnuSAPQE
Post edited January 11, 2013 by jamyskis
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