The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99(kickstarter.com) |
The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99(kickstarter.com) |
It'll ship late and be probably 2x that cost at which point you should just get a chromebook. Or, ya know, use the laptop you already have.
Show video of a person actually using it. Unedited, continuous shot. Right now it looks like you're just plugging a phone into a macbook and then have the macbook fake up some stuff in the video.
I'd argue that these platforms create a perverse incentive for people to exaggerate their experience and/or product to appeal to the clueless masses but I guess that's the same with most kinds of marketing ...
That said, tablets didn't work so well when Microsoft tried them out 15 years ago, but they blew up later. Same with a number of other techs that weren't ready. Is this the time for smartphone computers? Nah, but keep an open mind!
Or when Eo/GO tried it 10 years before that!
If I recall correctly Ubuntu wanted to try that, as did Microsoft. Too early to market perhaps.
It does reminds me of the el-cheapo Panashiba stereo I had as a student, though.
Show video of a person actually using it. Unedited, continuous shot. Right now it looks like you're just plugging a phone into a macbook and then have the macbook fake up some stuff in the video.
If you have a MBP 16gb or a Surface Pro 4 (or.. next year.. a SP5?) then this probably isn't going to be your every-day-carry.
Does the Superbook require MHL? Nope. The Superbook doesn’t use MHL technology--instead, it uses Displaylink technology
Check out http://displaylink.com/downloads/android for more info!
I haven't personally tried a Displaylink device yet but It looks like it works well with USB 2.0.
Crazy that Ubuntu needed $32m, while this kickstarter has only asked $50k.
It is eventually self correcting, but that usually involves a market crash and a Game of Thrones style winter where the junk is purged.
And I mentioned my Panashiba stereo because it was an obvious mix of Panasonic and Toshiba, but was not a trademark infringement of either.