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[Benjamin Tegge <benjaminosm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think there is a misconception here. To my knowledge, pairing two
hosts like you described has never been directly mentioned before.

Also "docking" may be a misleading term, as it suggests that a dock or
cradle and special connectors are required.

"Convergence" or converged desktop experience is what has been shown in
videos last year on the Nexus 4 [1][2]. Convergence gives you a full
desktop experience when you connect standard peripheral hardware
(monitor, keyboard, mouse) to your phone. Victor Palau is using a
portable monitor in his video. While portable monitors and tablets may
look similar, tablets usually have no video input functionality.


Regards,
Benjamin

1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk9-v8Sl4yU "Ubuntu Edge: convergence
in action (Victor Palau)"
2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtNhlVn3ETQ "Ubuntu Edge: the software
story (Leann Ogasawara)"

Am Mittwoch, den 30.07.2014, 14:02 +0100 schrieb Steve Smith:
> Hi all, I'm a long-time Ubuntu user and really excited to have an
> Ubuntu phone in my hand by the end of the year.  From what I've seen,
> you're doing an awesome job!
> 
> 
> I've seen mention of docking a phone to a tablet (possibly on a video
> with Mark?).  I'm guessing that it won't be something available in the
> first public release, but when you get to it how to you anticipate it
> working?  Would it be an actual tablet also running Ubuntu, that is
> just synced to the storage on the phone?  Or would it be a special
> dumb touchscreen (rather than an actual tablet) that the phone just
> plugs into and the software continues to run on the phone itself -
> much like docking with an external monitor?
> 
> 
> The reason I ask is I'm looking into buying an Android tablet and
> would like to future-proof myself for when docking becomes possible.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> Steve