Concept Android Phone Becomes Tablet, Laptop ? Game Console ...

Imagine this killer gadget: A handheld game console, PlayStation Portable style, that only works with an expensive smartphone plugged into it and has the word ?lunch? written on it in big letters.

Sounds like a must-have, right? No? Well, how about a tablet that only works with your smartphone plugged into it? Or a laptop? Don?t blame me for these ideas; the ?Spider Concept? is being developed by KT, a Korean telecom company that unveiled all four gadgets at this year?s IFA in Berlin.

Haven?t we seen this before?

Kind of! The Motorola Atrix combined a smartphone and a laptop, into a laptop that only works with a smartphone plugged into it. But the Atrix?s ?webtop? had an actual computer desktop, one that was slow and buggy and only ran the Firefox web browser.

It?s unclear what the KT Spider?s laptop dock will run, but the pictures show that the tablet dock appears to run Honeycomb, the more tablet-friendly version of Android. It?s possible that the laptop dock runs Honeycomb as well, making it sort of like the Asus Transformer?s keyboard dock but with a smartphone instead of a tablet. And while the Transformer?s dock had to include a laptop touchpad, the Spider uses the smartphone?s screen as the touchpad instead.

But what?s the point?

That?s the thing ? I?m not sure.

Is the laptop dock cheaper? You can get a laptop for pretty cheap as it is; the one I?m typing this on cost about $300.

Does it make special use of the ?touchpad? phone screen? A laptop with a smartphone as its touchpad sounds like an amazing idea that someone like Steve Jobs could turn into a solid product. In fact, not too long ago people were speculating that the Magic Trackpad would turn out to be an iPod Touch adapter. The thing is, the idea would take so much vision and work that I?m not sure anyone but Steve Jobs and Apple are up to executing it, and making it worth using.

As it is, the laptop probably either runs Android or some specialized version of Linux a la the Motorola Atrix. Android?s not designed to be used on a laptop, even though Asus make a valiant effort to make laptop-style apps for its dock, and if the Atrix is any sign then laptop Linux is painfully slow on a smartphone?s processor. That makes this ?laptop? awfully bulky and expensive for the amount of utility it would provide.

Will we see it in the States?

Good question. Seeing as how the KT Spider is a concept design by a Korean telecom company, we probably won?t see it any time soon. And since Google is trying to buy Motorola, we may not even see another Atrix-style webtop dock if the gadgets don?t fit Google?s vision for Android.

One thing we can be sure of? If the KT Spider does make its way here, it won?t have the word ?lunch? written across the game console dock?s face.

Jared Spurbeck is an open-source software enthusiast, who uses an Android phone and an Ubuntu laptop PC. He has been writing about technology and electronics since 2008.

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Source: http://androidnewscenter.com/index.php/2011/09/02/concept-android-phone-becomes-tablet-laptop-game-console/

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