Unfortunately it seems hybrid devices have yet to truly catch on, but in the meantime it has not stopped Samsung from toying around with ideas. According to a recently discovered patent by the folks at Patently Mobile, it seems to suggest that Samsung is interested in creating a laptop with a smartphone dock.
What the dock does is that it allows the user to insert their smartphone into it, thus transforming their Android phone into a Windows laptop. Basically the smartphone would contain most of the innards required to operate a laptop, and the dock itself would be the laptop’s display, keyboard, mouse, and etc. Alternatively the smartphone could also be used as a trackpad due to its touchscreen display.
If anything this reminds us of the ASUS Padfone series in which a smartphone is inserted into a tablet dock, thus transforming the device into a tablet using the phone to power it. It is an intriguing idea but whether or not such a product would be successful remains to be seen, but what say you? Is this a device you might be interested in purchasing?