Your Smartphone are already doing many things, but how about if he took the place of your PC? Canonical, the publisher of the Ubuntu operating system has just made an announcement that will make a big splash. The solution offered by Canonical, Ubuntu for Android, consists of an overlay or rather a dual-boot Android that will when you place your phone on a dock connected to a display, transform it into a PC of course functional Ubuntu . Thus you will find a typical desktop and any applications you normally use on a PC. You can even run your applications running under Windows as the operating system allows virtualizing Ubuntu.
Motorola already offers a similar solution but with the Atrix is a proprietary solution and then less complete than that proposed by Canonical is free and this is ultimately a true operating system for PCs. This system also has multiple advantages as your contacts, bookmarks, emails and all your media will be in a single device that will serve both phone and computer. You can also answer your calls and messages directly to PC mode. Coupled to an online storage solution, Dropbox or another, this could very well replace your PC, right? Ubuntu for Android is also ideal for emerging countries, because this solution has a lower cost compared to buying a PC + a Smartphone.
