Smartphones as actual computers

1. 2019-03-10 at 4:41 AM UTC

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   Phantasmagoria African Astronaut
   Do you think you could use a smartphone as your one and only computing device?
   Me personally I absolutely need the desktop interface since I do a lot of file sorting and UI intensive work.
   I mostly have hated smartphones and only use them as mobile web browsers.
   Once I learn to program and how to work with hardware I might use a smartphone as a controller and multitool.
   Are there any pocket computers without the phone service and without a camera.
2. 2019-03-10 at 4:55 AM UTC

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   Needledick Needledick Needledick motherfucker [mulishly down your brachydactylia]

   Originally posted by Phantasmagoria Are there any pocket computers without the phone service and without a camera.

   
   An early generation ipod touch.
3. 2019-03-10 at 5:03 AM UTC

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   kroz weak whyte, frothy cuck, and former twink
   i guess if i had too. i prefer having a phone and a laptop though
4. 2019-03-10 at 5:45 AM UTC

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   inert_observer Houston
   give it a virus with your gameboy
5. 2019-03-10 at 6 AM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
   If you plug it in to a screen and peripherals you can do most day-to-day stuff on a phone. The main constraint is power; if you want to do audio/video editing or gayming or something even the latest phone handsets are limited.
   
   I personally could use it as a primary IF it were running a standard linux kernel - Android (even moreso ios) is far too opaque; anyone concerned with security in any sense should not trust it.
6. 2019-03-10 at 7:05 AM UTC

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   Phantasmagoria African Astronaut

   Originally posted by aldra If you plug it in to a screen and peripherals you can do most day-to-day stuff on a phone. The main constraint is power; if you want to do audio/video editing or gayming or something even the latest phone handsets are limited.
   
   I personally could use it as a primary IF it were running a standard linux kernel - Android (even moreso ios) is far too opaque; anyone concerned with security in any sense should not trust it.

   
   Yeah I don't want anything resembling a smartphone.
   What I want is the device alone.
   Why the fuck hasn't anyone tried to capitalize on the pocket computer idea.
   Take something like an Android smartphone but without the cellular antenna and camera.
   You would use this as your personal private computer you can take everywhere and you could hook it up to a monitor and have an actual desktop experience.
   As for gaming fuck the kids these days I would be absolutely fine with Deus ex or half life 2 tier graphics.
   This seems like such an awesome idea but it'll be eclipsed by mobile ar and VR.
7. 2019-03-10 at 7:36 AM UTC

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   Lanny Bird of Courage
   A computer without a compiler that can output first class userland executables is just a toy as far as I'm concerned. I guess I could get by with like a phone if I had a physical keyboard and could SSH to a sever that had a real dev tooling (that's what I did when I was using a chromebook), but that doesn't really seem like it counts since the phone is just a dumb terminal to a real computer.