It is a good idea and affordable to use a Mobile device with Linux installed to serve the purpose of a PC/ Server in the following viewpoints
- A Smartphone/Tablet can be very easily converted to a PC or Computer Server
- As Smartphone/Tablet is packed with abundant :-) Sensors, it suits building and interfacing sensor based solutions, Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), Cloud based solutions, etc
- Wi-Fi, NFC and Bluetooth forms a gateway to external Sensor devices
- Can replace IoT based boards like Raspberry, Arduino, BeagleBone, etc. (apart from the benefit of GPIO ports)
- Imagine hosting Tomcat or some web-server and hosting web-services or pages from a mobile device
- Any general purpose widely used Mobile devices can server as a Linux box
- Choice of various CPU based based on need from Qualcomm Snapdragon, MediaTek, etc
- A Keyboard & Mouse can be docked to the mobile device to form a workstation
- An LED TV or Monitor can be interfaced through a HDMI cable or DLNA or Chrome-cast
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| Its installation Time in My Samsung Galaxy Note |
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| Stylus is waiting to meet Linux |
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| Extremely fast-performing Lightweight X11 Environment |
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| Productivity & Programming weapons! |
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| The VTE-based terminal emulator for LXDE |
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| Simple to use, Lightweight and Fast, Music Player |
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| Firefox browser, which needs an update |
Preamble: When I was riding my bike, I was thinking and was visualizing a world where by, how it would be if my fellow-riders are carrying pocket servers, which actually are mobile devices and connected to cloud via 4G LTE. The future may be so close, that everyone will carry a server portable enough to fit the pocket or a wrist band. It can be a private server catering to an individual for his processing needs or can be a part of the cloud server
Note: The ideas expressed here is solely mine, not copycatted and if it made any infringements please let me know, so that I will alter my posts consequently
