Vodacom plans to launch cloud-based phone in South Africa

Interesting.

Canonical said the ability to offload compute, storage and energy-intensive applications from devices (x86 and Arm) to the cloud enables end-users to consume advanced workloads by streaming them directly to their device
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#Musthavegoodinternet
 
“Because of this, the device of choice will only need to use basic video-decoding capabilities, enabling simple objects to take on smartphone tasks,” Canonical stated.

It would also need internet. Something we don't have everywhere... I assume there would be a way to top up when you run out of gigs... or would the desktop always be available?
I'd be game to try one.
 
The basic principal isn’t crazy.

The problem is it requires high quality, low latency, cheap mobile internet to be broadly available. Our mobile internet doesn’t meet that bar, especially in the target areas for this kind of device (low income demographic).
 
I actually did this a while back. I bought a cheap android phone that had 8gb of storage and 1gb for r600. it was literally too slow and useless to do pretty much anything at all so I put up a virtual machine on one of my servers and ran waydroid on it and connected to it via RDP.

The problem with this approach though is that some apps, particularly banking apps and stuff really do not like being ran on virtual or emulated environments. Google play hardware attestations also fail so that another problem.
 
pstation said:
I actually did this a while back. I bought a cheap android phone that had 8gb of storage and 1gb for r600. it was literally too slow and useless to do pretty much anything at all so I put up a virtual machine on one of my servers and ran waydroid on it and connected to it via RDP.

The problem with this approach though is that some apps, particularly banking apps and stuff really do not like being ran on virtual or emulated environments. Google play hardware attestations also fail so that another problem.
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What did you use as the RDP client?
 
GUYS, GUYS!
I KNOW!

All we need to do is have the phone have an application on it that can render text in some sort of a markup language that can provide functionality. Then we have a big powerful server decide what views the client device can see based on their interactions and send it the appropriate text.
 
So Cloud Gaming. Bringing down the need for high end PC's to game

&

Now Cloud Phoning. what is next. Will be willing to try tho. Main thing is the cost going to be worth it for the end user
 
Great, a phone that works intermittently based on signal strength. Vodacom only likes this because they can **** over the users with OOB charges
 
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Worst idea ever.

But sadly they'll find a stupid enough market...geekity dudes. Dude's be like...i never knew i needed that.

Then them geek finds out the dumb phone needs to be pinged every so seconds. And in proper big business fashion, you'll be charged 5c per ping.

I hear AWS plans to charge their customers a monthly fee for a "remember me" cookie. Fun times ahead.

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Canonical said the ability to offload compute, storage and energy-intensive applications from devices (x86 and Arm) to the cloud enables end-users to consume advanced workloads by streaming them directly to their device.
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What's the difference in battery use between:

a.) local applications
b.) cloud apps & the data streaming required over a mobile network
 
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