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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/canonical-ubuntu-core-convergence-mwc,31359....Canonical Impresses With Ubuntu Core And Low-Power Mobile Devices OK, first of all this is being reported by a very old, respected and VERY MUCH mainstream PC test site, Tomshardware.com. This is not fluff, it is not propaganda and it is not "linux people", it is very much mainstream PC people reporting this stuff. Next, it is backed up with hands on use, going back to year 2013 with these same guys who have been owning the quoted equipment all along for the last five (5) years. Next, when Toms says MS is just brown vapor bullshitting people about "convergence" being their idea, then Tom's bloody well know the facts behind it. Just Some Old Smartphone Acting Like A PC"I was sufficiently impressed by the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet demo’s multitasking performance, but Collins had another surprise in store when we switched to the smartphone-as-PC demo.
Thanks to Ubuntu Core, you can connect a smartphone to an external monitor, and the phone’s open applications will show up as windowed, desktop-looking apps.
As with the tablet, you can’t get a dual-screen experience. However, Canonical cleverly found a way to use the smartphone’s touch display as an input device. The phone’s display is off, but in the video (above), you can see that you can use it to move the mouse cursor around just as you would on any laptop touchpad, and you can perform taps and a two-finger scroll. (When connected to an external display, the tablet offers the same.) Connect yourself a keyboard, and you’re all set with a hybrid laptop/desktop input experience and a PC-like environment on your monitor.
However, it’s not as fluid as the tablet experience. There’s a small amount of mouse input lag, for example, and the apps didn’t seem to respond quite as readily as one would like. That would be more disappointing if the attached smartphone powering the experience was a high-end device, but effectively, they were using just some old smartphone. It was, in fact, a Nexus 4--a phone so old that you can’t even buy it anymore.
I pressed Collins on the minimum required specs for this experience, and I seemed to have stumped him, as he didn’t have a ready answer. But then he made this point: Canonical hasn’t bothered to define minimum requirements because there are so few phones available that can’t run it.
All a handset really needs, Collins said, is 2 GB of RAM. The rest is gravy."So, MS is/has been bullshitting the world about "convergence" because they don't really have it yet, Canonical has had it in the can for the past five years, and ANY modern phone has more than enough grunt to run it, but you really do need 2 gigs of memory. Next year's primo phones start coming out of the gate with up to six gigs of memory, so this is not an issue, really. Android N has just been announced to contain Windowing functionality. so MS had best pull its thumb out of its rectum and get to moving or MS will get all lapped all over yet again by everybody. http://liliputing.com/2016/03/google-releases-android-n-developer-preview.html
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