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Samsung patents a laptop with a phablet dock

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Samsung have just patented a laptop model that has an integrated dock to plug in a phablet. It’s easy: the phablet will be the heart that powers and gives life to this computer.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has revealed a project by Korean giant Samsung that will attempt to refloat an idea Motorola had a while ago, with their Atrix line. Samsung intend to create a laptop that will use a phablet dock which will, in turn, act as the heart and core of this computer. And here’s the most interesting bit: Samsung devices all run on Android OS, but this laptop would be running the computer’s own version of Windows instead.

The patent does not clarify whether this laptop will be functional at all by using just the tablet, if it will posess an additional battery or just drain from the tablet itself, and leaves us with more questions than answers: could this merely be a keyboard and screen to attach to our Galaxy phablets, or something entirely different and more interesting?

The Korean giant has not made any comments on this topic, regardless of this information being revealed. We do not know for certain when will there be official information, product specs, or even a code name for this project. What is certain, though, is that Samsung seem to want to dip their toes on an segment of the market that has been rather neglected as of late, and hope to design a product that, if done well, has a lot potential.

Motorola abandoned the idea after the release of the Atrix 2, a device that was perfectly functional and good enough, but failed to catch the interest of the masses. Now, Samsung attempt to take this segment and replace smartphones with phablets instead – will this make a difference?

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Samsung Puts a Stop to Its Laptop Sales in Europe

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With so many other things to work on, it’s no wonder that the Korean tech giant plans to stop manufacturing (or at least selling) laptops. For starters, Europe will be affected, but it wouldn’t be such a big surprise if the rest of the world were depleted of Samsung laptops in the near future.

Sony seems to have started a trend when it exited the PC business by selling Vaio. While Samsung won’t sell its laptop making division, it doesn’t seem keen to continue making them, either.

A Samsung spokesperson explained the company’s decision to stop selling laptops in Europe as follows: “We quickly adapt to market needs and demands. In Europe, we will be discontinuing sales of laptops including Chromebooks for now. This is specific to the region – and is not necessarily reflective of conditions in other markets.” The same spokesperson added that “We will continue to thoroughly evaluate market conditions and will make further adjustments to maintain our competitiveness in emerging PC categories.”

Emerging PC categories don’t seem to include Chromebooks, either, as these will be affected as well as by Samsung’s latest decision. That’s a pity, as the Chrome OS notebooks were quite reasonably priced for their purpose, and Samsung was along with Acer one of the first companies to help Google make this dream come true.

We’re left to wonder if the Korean company will put more effort in its all-in-one PCs, but the way I see it, that wouldn’t be a very bright decision, either. When an all-in-one PC breaks, people who don’t have a back-up solution have to wait for days or even weeks until they get the computer out of the service. This has been a major problem of Mac computers, but it definitely looks like Samsung wants to compete with Apple on more than just smartphones.

Samsung will now have more time to focus on its smartphones, tablets, wearables, VR headsets and so on, and it’s probably for the better that it took what may seem like a drastic decision. After all, it was only last month that Xiaomi overtook Samsung as China’s top smartphone vendor, so the Korean conglomerate company should watch its position better. Maybe other PC manufacturers will also follow the trend.

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