Can we bring back PalmTops ?
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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PureOS on Purism Librem 5 let you plug-in phone to display and wa-la... actual desktop experience from just phone.
Ability to recognize non-ASCII characters in the dialer? Nope... Ability to skip auto connect to the Bluetooth device? Nope, never again... Record phone calls? No, fuck you, we don't like it in US so it is banned to the whole world. Here you are a feature nobody asks for and shut up...
What BS!
This paired with virtualization features (hopefully with working sommelier) potentially enable running desktop wayland apps on phone.
To run waydroid on it
Dex was kind of nifty if you had a monitor laying around. I'm guessing this is the non-Samsung version feature.
or they we're forced to give
You mean they're going to turn Androids into Chromebooks.
Honestly, it sounds horrible, but for people who don't have a PC, I guess it could be a benefit.
It's great. We need to consider how many people live in 3rd world countries that only have access to Android phones.
If they can hook up a keyboard, mouse, and a monitor to those phones then it empowers these people to have more opportunities to compete and contribute to the digital space.
Giving them access to the tools of developers could be a godsend.
No, I'm not arguing that it's horrible from any other viewpoint than my own. And I'm super privileged enough to be able to both afford and have access to better options.
This will make Android tablets a lot more appealing I guess, the ones that come with light keyboards coupled with the cover.
The major uses for me would be reading (web pages, pdfs) and code review or even some light coding. Not saying I will buy one for this but definitely something I would keep in mind for the future.
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I used to think the idea of a phone that is also my desktop would be really cool. But then I got to thinking just how locked down iOS and to a lesser extent Android are compared to Linux/Windows/MacOS, and decided I wouldn't use my Pixel as a replacement for my desktop or laptop even if the feature was there.
I really like using Dex on my work laptop so I don't have to mess with logging into personal accounts on them. Too bad Samsung is removing this specific version of Dex in One UI 7.
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Cool. Now let me legally record my phone calls without rooting my phone.
Built-in to GrapheneOS for a while now.
Can i install grapheneos on Xiaomi
Two problems:
- No automatic call recording.
- Banking apps don't work on GrapheneOS thanks to Play Integrity APIs, so you probably need to root to get them to work.
If you need to root anyway, might as well use BCR.
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I swear they've been writing the same article for a year.
Much longer than that. But that's probably because Google keeps picking it up and then dropping it again.
You know, I wouldn't be surprised if this starts a trend of ultra-cheap "laptops" that are just hardware extensions for phones with no processing capabilities of their own.
"Lapdock" seems to be the popular term. They've been around more than 10 years but never gone mainstream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapdock
Really fricking cool!
Thank you for sharing this.
A beta build of Android 16 contains an early version of Google’s new Android Desktop Mode that, in the future, could let users simply plug their smartphone into a monitor and use it like a laptop or desktop computer.
It seems this is an instance where the headline tells the full story
Now the question is if people will be stupid enough to replace all the freedoms their desktop OS still gives them with the vendor controlled shit show that is mobile OS.
And I thought the year of linux desktop was coming..
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do you think I am masochist or what, better give me gnu/linux on mobile ;)
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