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Motorola’s had a stab at trying to get people to use their phone as a surrogate computer with its Atrix 4G – it wasn’t all that great as a netbook replacement. But things have drastically improved with the introduction of Ice Cream Sandwich, so why not just hook up your Galaxy Nexus to a monitor, keyboard and trackpad to give you an instant desktop computer?
That’s what Christian Cantrell an enterprising Android user decided to do. He found that Google has created quite a few little hooks for a keyboard and trackpad combo that makes it a pretty slick experience. For instance, there’s an alt-tab-style program switcher for quick multi-tasking switching just like you’re used to on a desktop, and the recent Chrome beta really brings a desktop-class browsing experience to Android.
Cantrell could do pretty much everything he wanted with just Android, with the only complaint being the horsepower available from the hardware. Considering it’s not designed to operate as a desktop replacement, it’s pretty impressive. We really are close to the one computer in your pocket of the future and I can’t wait. [YouTube]
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I do this with my SGS2, wireless keyboard, mouse and an MHL adapter. Here is a video demo I made a while back now. Sorry for the shakiness!
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXveu7ZHAcY
I can’t wait to see how Android handles on the Raspberry Pi just like this.
Yeah! I’m definitely in for the Raspberry Pi! I like that it uses SD cards for storage, I will probably get a few with different OS’s installed
This is cool
You have to wonder what the future holds for ChromeOS….
They should ditch it and just run with Android. They could enable a Chrome-mode for Android that could give you what you experience with Chrome OS just with the ability to back out into Android.
There’s a possibility that it could all get merged into the next big thing, maybe in the next sweet treat (after Jellybean?)
Well Chrome broswer is already here (for use 4.0 types anyway) so integrating chrome OS and Android has already begun.
Perhaps. I wouldn’t put it past them. It certainly doesn’t make sense to keep the two separate.
erm because android is crap?