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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

Tom's Hardware is reporting [tomshardware.com] on an IndieGoGo campaign [indiegogo.com] to fund a dockable "smartphone PC". Symetium [symetium.com] is pitching a customized UI Android 6.0 smartphone with a Snapdragon 820 [anandtech.com] SoC, 6 GB of RAM [soylentnews.org], 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 [wikipedia.org], 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.

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