Quixote Computing

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The iDEA

The goal of Quixote Computing is to make the home and business computing model drastically simpler, cheaper, and greener. Most modern Android smartphones now have dual or quad core processors. This amount of computing power is overkill for a smartphone, but it is ideal for a PC. Quixote will sell software that will run a handset device as an Android smartphone and as a PC simultaneously. This will work on any dual or quad core Android device. We will also sell the desktop dock and the mobile convertible clamshell to enable this functionality.

When the smartphone is docked it will automatically go into desktop mode, as it will be when the clamshell is in laptop mode. When the clamshell converts to a tablet the smartphone will revert to Android. Instead of spending thousands of dollar to buy and sync multiple devices the users entire digital life will be on the smartphone, with only low cost docks to purchase in addition to the phone.

The PRoDUCT

  • Software: Development of a custom ROM containing Android and Ubunthu that will work on most dual and quad core Android phones, and is installable by the user will be critical.

  • Desktop Dock- This will be a critical component to replicate the desktop experience. This dock will use the micro USB or HDMI out port on the smartphone to export the video signal. Any Bluetooth wireless mouse and keyboard would work with the dock.

  • Tablet/Notebook- Having a desktop solution is great, but having a mobile computing solution will be critical For this component we envision a device similar to the forthcoming Lenovo Yoga. Please see http://goo.gl/k3vib. This would be a convertible device that would take the form of a laptop and then could convert to a tablet. The smartphone would dock in the device. When this device was in laptop mode the user would be using Ubunu. In tablet mode they would be using android.
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