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I disagree with the article. I am still waiting for the device which can be a complete replacement for my laptop. That means

* Ability to "dock" to get a keyboard+mouse+monitor Interface.

* True multi-tasking (The music should not stop just because I switched apps)

* A full fledged command line terminal (xterm).

* support for ssh, Perl, python, ruby, C/C++ etc.

This device may not start out as a phone, May be it will be a raspberry type hobby device with a computer on chip running linux which will "grow" to acquire a pluggable phone module, a touch screen and a docking station.

Still waiting for it.



The latter three are covered by Android, and the first was covered by the Motorola Atrix (which bombed) and the upcoming Ubuntu phone.


check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install

The docking functionality is still in the works, will land in a future release of Ubuntu. Eventually the desktop OS and the touch OS will become the same Ubuntu.




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