Voltron of Computers Combines Phone, Tablet, and Keyboard Into One [Computers]

Always Innovating’s Smart Book breaks the normal netbook into pieces. A touchscreen VoIP phone, a tablet, and a keyboard. Use them apart, or combine them into an entire-powered device if you have to. Buy one device, carry what you will need.

As if hardware transformation on the fly weren’t clever enough, the Smart Book incorporates a switch they say will instantly swap OSes. That’s right-click bewteen Android, Chrome, Ubuntu, or their own AIOS. And underneath all this design sophistication is some decent hardware muscle-an ARM Cortex-A8 processor (speed unspecified), 512 MB of RAM, and 256 MB of built-in flash storage, which include the standard 802.11 b/g/n WiFi.

The whole scheme is a chunk extravagant, and possibly not a dream device for someone seeking simplicity-and the entire ” dude on a couch” aesthetic doesn’t exactly inspire confidence inside the train out of vaporwareville. But Always Innovating is taking pre-orders for the entire system at $549, so if the novelty (and potential functionality) attract you, maybe take a wait and notice stance here. [ Always Innovating via CrunchGear ]

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