News - Intel powered i-mate smartphone runs Windows 8 Pro

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It looks like a normal 4.7-inch screened smartphone but runs the Windows 8 Pro OS.

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might just work

Wait what.

So much awesomely cool stuff, that no doubt will be too slow, have no battery life, but is still incredibly cool.

You've got a tablet, which is dumb, slaved to the phone wirelessly. That in itself is awesome, that's like an 11 on the dail, padphone can die.

You've then got the stick in in a dock and use it at the desk neatness.

Ok, I'm sold, just make it fast enough and you've got my money.

As a concept for convergence that is utterly brilliant!

Can we just have longer battery life??

This is a phone after all.

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Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH

This is a phone after all.

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But it isn't.

This is a glimse of an achiveable way of having the office of the future! (you need to say that in a booming deep echoing voice).

As you flutter between hot desk stations and such, switching between dock terminals, tablets for stand ups, you even use it as your desk phone.

Its basically for a hot desk environment, everything you'd want.

Looks like an ideal convergence, but not much cop if its slow and incapable of doing basic tasks. I also wonder if the dock will have some expand ability,USB?
But why oh why do all things technical have to have an I prefix. I-mate is a terrible name. Makes most think that apple had something to do with it.

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Originally Posted by Daletur328

But why oh why do all things technical have to have an I prefix. I-mate is a terrible name. Makes most think that apple had something to do with it.

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Well, they are manufacturing in California :D

Is that a single home button? Rectangular?!

Even if they aren't involved I still predict a lawsuit.

Ouch, that is quite a price, I think I'll be looking at the Ubuntu variant!

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Originally Posted by Daletur328

But why oh why do all things technical have to have an I prefix. I-mate is a terrible name. Makes most think that apple had something to do with it.

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I-Mate was an old windows mobile brand, think it dates back to 2003.

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Originally Posted by TheAnimus

But it isn't.

This is a glimse of an achiveable way of having the office of the future! (you need to say that in a booming deep echoing voice).

As you flutter between hot desk stations and such, switching between dock terminals, tablets for stand ups, you even use it as your desk phone.

Its basically for a hot desk environment, everything you'd want.

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The problem is battery tech does not keep up with all the POWAR(tm),and when you actually start doing anything intensive,the battery dies after about 2 seconds!! :p

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Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH

The problem is battery tech does not keep up with all the POWAR(tm),and when you actually start doing anything intensive,the battery dies after about 2 seconds!! :p

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Exactly...plus I think Clovertrail is still an in-order execution processor, so performance with full fat Windows will be so-so. Personally I think it will be after the release of Broadwell or even Skylake before this sort of convergence is really useful.

If there was a laptop dock for this as well as the desktop dock, I'd be in.

This could be what the Motorola Atrix could have been.

I like the idea of this but I don't think it will be usable for a couple years as I don't think Clover Trail is powerful enough for a smooth experience. However, it looks ideal for business and I would use it.

Its a nice concept

Yes, this was only a matter of time with PCs long ago being "fast enough" (around P4/atom level)
and mobile cpus getting ever faster to approach that speed.

People want to do this, and many try using phone/tablet as their only devices (without PC) - but it does hamper you currently.

The downside for manufacturers that have fingers in both mobile and desktop imarkets is that a good convergance device will cost them money
- customer wouldn't buy both anymore...