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They announced this back in June 2012. Still no word on when it'll actually ship.

http://www.gizmag.com/clamcase-clambook-android-iphone-lapto...

I had a Clamcase Pro for about a year. Its the only keyboard case that isn't terrible.

When mine broke it was because of my own negligence, but if anyone buys one of these, keep in mind that the company only offers a 90 day warranty, which is very short for a $150 keyboard. This new product is probably going to cost at least $100 more.

Clamcase has a reputation online for refusing to support their products outside of this window, even though some of their products are known to fail all of a sudden for no reason.

If they sell to Australians, they're going to have to support it for longer than that, at least for australian customers. Our consumer protection laws include an implied warranty with every product sold, and it covers a 'reasonable' period after the product is bought (for example, Apple's 1 year standard warranty is really at least two years in australia, because being a premium product means users expect it to work for at least that long)

I was doing some research on the various accessories available to utilize an Android as a single device. During this, I was highly intrigued by the Samsung Smartdock, but suddenly, came across this device. It seems it was announced last year, but my hopes is that it is still going to be released.

These things have been extremely unsuccessful in the past. . . I remember when they were liquidating these guys for ~$50:

http://www.motorola.com/us/Lapdock%E2%84%A2-for--MOTOROLA-AT...

All I can say about them is they make good raspberry pi docks.

I find it curious that the "laptop" rendered is basically a macbook air of sorts. Is there no originality these days?

Excusing the originality inherent in the idea of a laptop form factor "phone extension" device that plugs into your phone via MHL, of course.

What would you have it look like? Thinner? Thicker? Less metal? More metal? Disband the thought that somebody make a small metallic clamshell with a screen and a keyboard - they're ripping off Apple!

Are you seriously claiming that you are not seeing the 'inspiration' with Apple's products?

I'd love a mobile device that is powerful enough to provide desktop power and work with an external monitor and keyboard. Though, for me, that doesn't mean the this incarnation especially the third image which is a clear ripoff of the MB Air).

For this type of form factor (where you are considering attaching to a lap top) something akin to the surface makes more sense than hooking up to a laptop.

Most of the company's products are keyboard cases for iPads. They designed the iPad keyboards to mesh well with Apple's design aesthetic. Now that that they are branching out, they are just trying to keep things consistent.

How does this interact with iOS? I feel like that sort of thing is off-limits.

This might actually make me want to run a full-blown linux distro rather than android on my phone!

You can run linux distros in a chroot on your android device today http://linuxonandroid.org/

The work on porting Docker to the ARM based Raspberry Pi might enable an even better Android linux experience in the future https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6724222

This looks lovely.

Are they aware of the number of people who'd want one of these for RPi?

I would just love a 3"-4" touchscreen for my RPi, but that seems impossible to find.

Hope they release this but seems to be an old announcement. I don't really need a faster cpu/gpu than my phone has for almost everything I do. But without a keyboard I'm lost for productivity.

I agree. Especially, with devices like the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, there is little reason not to carry one single device.

So this is supposed to be a laptop accessory for your smartphone?

How is this different from the Atrix or the Transformer?

This is supposed to be compatible with all Ice Cream Sandwich phones and iPhones, rather than only one model.

This looks great, I can't wait to see some real footage.

I thought this was some sort of parody.

A fake ad that pretends a laptop is just an external screen and keyboard accessory for your smartphone.

Their wording on that third slide threw me off. I thought that the actual data connection between the Clambook and the phone was done over 4G.

Is it just me or does the logo use the same font face that Facebook does?

Well, they sure want Facebook likes, they are offering $20 off if I "LIKE" them.

Personally though, I'm not really interested in any company that is going to charge me a $20 penalty for not joining Facebook and "like"-ing them.

They aren't penalizing you, think of it as a very generous referral bonus where if you can prove you shared it they offer you a discount even if none of your friends click through.

Nobody is forcing them to give anybody a discount, it's seriously just a nice gesture, nothing to be cynical about.

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