• ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    1 day ago

    The Motorola Atrix 4G had a Desktop Mode (Webtop was its name and it was Ubuntu based) in 2011 before Samsung. They even released a cradle dock, that you could connect to a tv or monitor, and a laptop dock for it and the source code on Sourceforge (my guess is to be GPL compliant).

    I got that phone specifically for the desktop mode. It had a full blown Firefox browser installed and you could run your apps along side it.

    I was blown away and thought, “This is the future for computers” but I was incredibly wrong. After the short honeymoon period i found it to be sluggish and clunky when using an android app. The hardware although phenomenal for a phone couldn’t provide an optimal experience for a desktop.

    • Ulrich@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      23 hours ago

      Yeah they were a little too early and the hardware of the time couldn’t power it appropriately.