Today, most people use multiple devices in their personal and professional lives, be it a desktop or laptop for work, a tablet, smartphone and possibly another desktop or tablet at home. The upcoming trend is to have one device that can easily handle most tasks users require in a home and business setting.
Microsoft introduced their vision of this concept in Continuum.
Continuum allows a user to connect their high-end Windows 10 Mobile smartphone to a special dock that is connected to an HDMI-based monitor or HDTV. Next you add a mouse and keyboard to the dock and the result is a Windows 10 desktop experience of sorts. Windows 10 Universal apps are the only applications that currently support Continuum and they are currently in very limited numbers.
Canonical, the developers of the Ubuntu Linux operating system has a somewhat more flexible version of this integration in Convergence. With Convergence, you connect a compatible Ubuntu Touch smartphone directly to that HDMI monitor/TV, then use a bluetooth keyboard and mouse for input. The Ubuntu option does not require a special version of applications like it's Windows counterpart and will work with any software on the smartphone. Convergence is also supported on Ubuntu Touch compatible tablets.
Both solutions modify the user interface appropriately between their mobile and desktop experiences but Convergence supports an actual resizeable windowing mode when run as a desktop where Continuum is limited to only full screen windows at the present time.
I'm excited to see this move in technology and look forward to what lies ahead in computing's future of one device.
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