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joelhaasnoot on June 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Device turns Android phone into computer. A reason...

Wait, where have I heard this before?

Oh wait it's Palm Foleo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Foleo) all over again

vidarh on June 11, 2012 | [–]

Except the Palm Foleo contained a computer. This is a "dumb" box.

It's much closer to the Motorola Atrix laptop dock.

bjornsteffanson on June 11, 2012 | [–]

True, but we weren't knee-deep in the cloud in 2007 like we are today. SSH, Vim, Google Documents on 1GHz machines? You could get some actual work done now with a dock.

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