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Article suggestion: N93 using a keyboard and TV out

2 replies · 15 views · Started 04 August 2006

I can't do this myself because I don't have an N93, but could I suggest an article for someone who does?

One of the things I most wanted when I first bought a smartphone was to be able to put it in a docking station at home and use it like a full-size computer. That hasn't been possible though, until now when the N93 included a TV out.

You can already use a smartphone as a hi-fi if you plug it into speakers, and you could also use the N93 as a home console to some extent by playing System Rush Evolution and any other games that get released for the system. Why not extend this to writing email on a TV, or browsing the web? You could do it with any TV, so even if you were in a hotel room or your grannies or whatever, and you didn't have a laptop, you'd still have access to a computer.

The article could contrast how a conventional PC and a smartphone compare, and see how much work is still required (or not required) before you can casually take your computer with you in your pocket and then plug it into a monitor and keyboard when you get home.

Obviously no one is going to throw their PC out because they have a smartphone, but if someone just uses a PC for web browsing, word processing, email, music and video, then the day is fast approaching when a smartphone will be able to do all those things just as well as a PC.

slitchfield wrote:Great idea for a feature. I'll get to work on it right away!

Steve

Hurrah! 😊

Just to make it clear, there'd be a bluetooth keyboard attached to the N93 too, so that using it with a TV would be a lot more like using a "proper" computer.