I share Canonical's vision of having one device for everything: imagine sitting at your desk, taking the phone out of your pocket and plugging it to an external display, and start working. Then, when finished, just unplug the display and put the phone back into your pocket.

Because the computational power of phones can only increase, this vision perfectly fits with our times.

> taking the phone out of your pocket and plugging it to an external display, and start working.

Plugging in is kind of obsolete these days. Many phones and TVs support wireless display, and it's not a gimmick, it takes a whole lot of friction out of using big screens. Ideally, I'd want an amply sized wireless charging pad, a Bluetooth keyboard/touchpad combo and WiDi. And no cables in sight.

Unfortunately the implementation leaves something to be desired. My WiDi box is one of the better ones, a Netgear PVR3000 and it's still a laggy, low quality RTSP over Wifi trick (that seems to be all WiDi is).

Previous thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6084099

If they are going to pull their 32 million, then I think we are in for some reposts and re-hitting the front page.

What if your phone rings while you're rendering some image or compiling something?

It all seems aweseome until I remember that the damn thing is supposed to be a telephone too :)

Skype works well on a computer while compiling. A phone would fare even better because it has a DSP that does most of the work.

If you don't have a headset connected, just disconnect the phone from the monitor and put it to your ear. It shouldn't affect your compilation.