Andromium’s $99 Superbook Converts Your Android Smartphone Into a Laptop Every now and then, Kickstarter tends to give us products and ideas which are received brilliantly by the crowd. These products offer simple and practical solutions, and the audience very obviously votes them to success with their wallets. One such product is Andromium’s Superbook. The concept of Superbook is simple: you already possess a very powerful computing device, good enough to crunch through most daily use cases of computers for the average user. But the limiting factor comes in its size: they are talking about the smartphone in your pocket — a device that is capable but not practical for all tasks. The Superbook fills in this void of practicality, allowing you to make use of the computing power inside your smartphone in a form factor practical enough for intensive tasks. The Superbook is a laptop shell essentially, providing you with a larger screen, a hardware keyboard, a multi touch trackpad and 8 hours of battery life. When you plug in your smartphone, the Superbook transforms into a laptop for all your productive needs, and even charges your phone while it’s docked. The Superbook will cost you $99 on Kickstarter, and comes with a custom USB-OTG cord and a charging adapter. Estimated delivery is for February 2017, but that doesn’t seem to deter other enthusiastic backers. As of writing this, the project already has 3,992 backers with $583,844 pledged with 27 days remaining for what was a modest $50,000 goal. See http://ift.tt/2abRt91
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