You mean can I turn the pocket computer in my pocket into a computer?
I don’t think most phones are useful at multitasking at all tbh. Only bare minimum
I don’t think most phones are useful at multitasking at all tbh. Only bare minimum
Neither are people. Human “multitasking” is basically fast task switching.
Desktops provide a convenient method of task switching using a flat area and windows, phones have a slightly different method of task switching using full screen panels. Both allow you to focus on the task at hand and switch to another task.
We’d need a definition of a computer we can all agree upon.
Arguably, my iPhone 16 Pro Max is a computer. It has a desktop environment, file manager (and Android guys can no longer say “such as it is” since, I dunno, iOS 16? A few years back), office apps, etc. But run it to my TV over my Thunderbolt to HDMI cable, and you just get a vertical screen, it’s just mirrored. Boo.
Now take my Galaxy S10 (5 years older!) and hook it up to the same cable, and you get a whole ass desktop experience on the TV, and the phone becomes a track pad. I shouldn’t have to qualify my S10 as a computer to an Android community on what appears to be an Android instance on Lemmy. Seeing that, I only mentioned the iPhone as a setup. Yes I have one and yes it’s my daily driver, and also yes it’s a computer by my definition. But for the traditional definition, the S10 is more of a computer because it has a proper desktop.
My home media server is literally an old Samsung S7 with a 2TB microsd card running Linux on it.
Yes, for at least a decade.
Have you done only a single activity on your computer at a time for the last decade. I don’t think phones work very well for multi tasking tbh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_DeX and this was just the user friendly version.
Android is just linux, it can and does run X windows
2011 - Motorola Atrix - Android 3.1 USB Host mode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no6Lcm7VpJA
The crazy thing is this never went away, no major vendors were pushing it other then Samsung, but chromeos was happening and you could always enable this in developer options and give it a spin, especially in the ROM space.
Thanks to Moore’s law (RIP) every cell phone since 2005 has had more power, memory, connectivity then my first 3 computers…
The video is not about a phone. It is about the Samsung trifold only.
