One Gadget For Everything

[englishman]

How far are we away from a single portable gadget that combines phone and computer.

Say like the 11" MBA but with phone

Apologies if this is in the wrong place

 

[Hellhammer]

The technology for such thing already exists but MBA with phone functionality is simply unusable. The idea of a phone is that it's small enough to fit in your pocket so you can carry it with you everywhere. Essentially, you MBA is already a phone because you can make calls with it via FaceTime and other apps.

What we may see in the future is that phones become people's main computers. Basically, you have a display at home and you just dock your phone to it and it becomes a full-featured computer. ASUS already demonstrated a tablet+phone combo:

 

[englishman]

So I think the problem is the keyboard and display. They have to be big enough to be usable but small enough to be portable.

iphone 5 x 2.5 inches

- - -

MBA 11.5 x 7.5 inches

ipad 9.5 x 7.5 inches

Quite a way to go.

If only there was some kind of folding technology