Flashback: phones that weren’t, part 3: an award-winning design hobbled by an awful chipset

25 June 2023
The NuAns Neo was an ambitious phone with desktop capabilities and an easy to personalize design, but it had the insides of a $100 phone.

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Beloved Windows Phone 8.1

Those days were amazing, lots of choices instead of just two OS nowadays

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    • 25 Jun 2023

    Could’ve been awesome… if Microsoft did it again 2022 with NuAns 2 and Snapdragon 8 gen 2, 16GB RAM, 512 GB Storage, Android with Windows Dex. Perfect

      Anonymous, 25 Jun 2023Continuum later copied by Samsung. Samsung is biggest c... moreIn fact, Continuum existed two years before DeX. If there's a credit for DeX, it's that Samsung brings the single-cable experience to the Android world. Motorola Atrix 4G and ASUS Padfone required their own proprietary lapdock and docking station solution.

        Before the existence of Arm Cortex-A73, using smartphone as a desktop PC, regardless Windows Phone or Android, is far from a worthy experience. The SoC just couldn't keep up with the workload. Now though, even the Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 SoC gives faster performance than any budget and midrange Chromebook laptops. It does show that the likes of Motorola Atrix 4G and ASUS Padfone are way too ahead of its time.

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          • 25 Jun 2023

          Continuum later copied by Samsung.

          Samsung is biggest copycat ever.
          Still media gives credits to samsung.

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