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Tom's Hardware is reporting on an IndieGoGo campaign to fund a dockable "smartphone PC". Symetium is pitching a customized UI Android 6.0 smartphone with a Snapdragon 820 SoC, 6 GB of RAM, and from 64 to 256 GB of flash storage along with an SD card slot. The Symetium IndieGoGo claims that the device "features an operating system designed to work seamlessly as a desktop OS and a mobile one". When docked with an external display (wirelessly or by USB), the phone can act as a keyboard and mouse.
If any of this sounds familiar, you may be remembering the Ubuntu Edge, a similar concept phone from Canonical that also used an IndieGoGo fixed funding campaign. Canonical sought $32 million for the Ubuntu Edge but only raised $12,809,906. Symetium is looking for just $1.25 million. Prices range from $499 to $999 and it is expected to ship by July 2016.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Thursday October 01 2015, @12:16AM
Indiegogo when it comes to hardware should be called "scammer's corner" as frankly most of it is just that. Go to YouTube and look up Pat the NES Punk talk on that new "retro console" that is supposed to use Atari Jaguar cases for just one example. He points out they literally have nothing but the molds and are claiming its gonna cost over $300K for a prototype when the guy they had originally hired to design it (who quit because he smelt the bullshit) had fully built 5 of the FPGA boards for the thing with less than $2k out of his own pocket. With Kickstarter they HAVE TO HAVE a working prototype to get on there, with Indiegogo they don't....sorry, that right there is frankly a deal breaker.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.