Vodafone + Canonical Working On A "Cloud Smartphone"

[Cotyso]

a smartphone running entirely on the cloud while leaving basic functionality on the device a user holds

no thanks

[waxhead]

Considering the situation in the world today I am surprised that people want to run things in the cloud at all.

Being dependent on a third party that may choose to suspend their service at any point in time is never a good idea. It's better to own your own data and being able to provide for yourself. Now more than anything should people understand why that's important.

[Quackdoc]

while interesting, I doubt it's practicality outside of cities

[Vistaus]

Strange. A lot of people keep saying how bad Anbox is, yet a big company like Vodafone wants to use it for something serious. :/

[Guest]

ITT: People who clearly aren’t the target audience for this complaining

[ServerGarbage]

ITT: People who clearly aren’t the target audience for this complaining

What's the target audience for this?

[skeevy420]

The ability to offload compute, storage and energy-intensive applications from devices (x86 and Arm) to the cloud enable end-users to consume advanced workloads by streaming them directly to their device.

Upload more ram.

[rabcor]

That is an atrocious idea.... running an OS over the cloud has always been an atrocious idea for so very many reasons, a phone that turns into a brick whenever it's not connected to the internet, and a phone that's always gonna be limited in performance by the speed of it's internet connection? What kind of idiot would even buy this product?

The ability to run specific intensive applications over cloud is one thing, since phones don't exactly pack powerful hardware... but running the whole thing off the cloud? pure insanity.

And if we're running it over cloud anyways, why in gods name would anyone want to limit themselves to a crappy os like android? I mean you have to get at least some benefits... and if you're still running android, then you're not getting them.

[kaidenshi]

"Hello, 911?"

"We're sorry, your subscription to cloud based calling has expired. To continue reporting your emergency, please provide a credit card number now"

I get that basic functions like phone calls are supposedly still done on the device, but the above joke gets closer to reality the more stuff like this gets announced.

[Vermilion]

What a stupid idea.