An idea that cound save Microsoft?
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Would it not be great if you could get a phone with a fully-blown Windows (8.1) installation? I have been craving this for ages, the device would have a micro-HDMI-out and a micro USB port. Then we could plug in a keyboard, monitor and mouse for a fully-blown PC with Visual Studio in your pocket for fixing problems on the go. A few mods to the software to enable easy calling and 3G and hey presto "Windows Blow Me". Pleeeeaaase!
So instead of texting emoticons while driving I can debug post-build events or analyze code coverage. What could be better than being tethered to my employer beyond the 14 hours a day they are already getting out of me? ;)
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Would it not be great if you could get a phone with a fully-blown Windows (8.1) installation? I have been craving this for ages, the device would have a micro-HDMI-out and a micro USB port. Then we could plug in a keyboard, monitor and mouse for a fully-blown PC with Visual Studio in your pocket for fixing problems on the go. A few mods to the software to enable easy calling and 3G and hey presto "Windows Blow Me". Pleeeeaaase!
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So instead of texting emoticons while driving I can debug post-build events or analyze code coverage. What could be better than being tethered to my employer beyond the 14 hours a day they are already getting out of me? ;)
15 hours. ...Oh, you mean better from your perspective ;)
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Would it not be great if you could get a phone with a fully-blown Windows (8.1) installation? I have been craving this for ages, the device would have a micro-HDMI-out and a micro USB port. Then we could plug in a keyboard, monitor and mouse for a fully-blown PC with Visual Studio in your pocket for fixing problems on the go. A few mods to the software to enable easy calling and 3G and hey presto "Windows Blow Me". Pleeeeaaase!
Sounds like a Motorola Atrix + Bluetooth keboard + Remote Desktop via Citrix. Plug the HDMI into the 1920x1080 TV, login via the Remote Desktop. Oh, no! I forgot the mouse! To me there is no "future" to the mobile phone in the current foot print.. The phone should be a communication brick/hotspot with switchable batteries (pocket sized to purse sized) that communicates with your display/app device, bluetooth headset, car, etc.
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Would it not be great if you could get a phone with a fully-blown Windows (8.1) installation? I have been craving this for ages, the device would have a micro-HDMI-out and a micro USB port. Then we could plug in a keyboard, monitor and mouse for a fully-blown PC with Visual Studio in your pocket for fixing problems on the go. A few mods to the software to enable easy calling and 3G and hey presto "Windows Blow Me". Pleeeeaaase!
Just go back in time 5 years, switch from MS dev to *nix and buy an N900. Now you root on a video out capable phone in your pocket with a USB port and 3G.
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Just go back in time 5 years, switch from MS dev to *nix and buy an N900. Now you root on a video out capable phone in your pocket with a USB port and 3G.
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That sounds exactly like the kind of device! I'd love to learn UNIX good but I'm struggling to keep up with the MS stuff! I suppose as soon as it can be done, someone will do it, roll on 5 years iii
psst 5 years ago... Awesome phone...
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Would it not be great if you could get a phone with a fully-blown Windows (8.1) installation? I have been craving this for ages, the device would have a micro-HDMI-out and a micro USB port. Then we could plug in a keyboard, monitor and mouse for a fully-blown PC with Visual Studio in your pocket for fixing problems on the go. A few mods to the software to enable easy calling and 3G and hey presto "Windows Blow Me". Pleeeeaaase!
The screen is too small. It will push u over the edge. :-D
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Would it not be great if you could get a phone with a fully-blown Windows (8.1) installation? I have been craving this for ages, the device would have a micro-HDMI-out and a micro USB port. Then we could plug in a keyboard, monitor and mouse for a fully-blown PC with Visual Studio in your pocket for fixing problems on the go. A few mods to the software to enable easy calling and 3G and hey presto "Windows Blow Me". Pleeeeaaase!
I concur. I've been waiting for such a smart phone to come out. The iPhone and the Android phone does not repair its file system automatically and it takes a series of somewhat complicated steps to install fsck on the Android.
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I concur. I've been waiting for such a smart phone to come out. The iPhone and the Android phone does not repair its file system automatically and it takes a series of somewhat complicated steps to install fsck on the Android.
Microsoft should have the start menu in windows 9 for desktop users. I think using a touch screen for programmers can get annoying. It would be cool to still have the windows store but without metro and use shortcuts to store apps on the desktop (as the windows 8 start menu was originally called when it came out). Windows phone 7 was a good phone they just needed more hardware manufacturers to jump in to make them. I had the Samsung Focus Flash as my phone and dropped it face down many times on the ground without a case. I put the battery back in and it kept working. I wonder why that phone survived my rough treatment? I think windows phone needs to have more hardware manufacturers support it and it will succeed. I now see them at Wal-Mart and normal grocery stores. I bypassed the windows 8 computer and kept windows 7 on my laptop. However, I do have a windows 8 phone that I received as a gift this summer. I think more highly of it then windows 8 but still like my windows 7 phone because it was extremely durable and functioned under high stress conditions. Hope I do not sound like a phone abuser. :omg: :laugh:
jeffery