{"id":530127,"date":"2026-03-11T23:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/530127\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T23:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:15:08","slug":"are-we-finally-at-the-point-where-phones-can-replace-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/530127\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We Finally At The Point Where Phones Can Replace Computers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was an ideal of convergence, a long time ago, when one device would be all you need, digitally speaking. [ETA Prime] on YouTube seems to think we\u2019ve reached that point, and his recent video about the Samsung S26 Ultra<\/a> makes a good case for it. Part of that is software: Samsung\u2019s DeX is a huge enabler for this use case. Part of that his hardware: the S26 Ultra, as the upcoming latest-and-greatest flagship phone, has absurd stats and a price tag to match.<\/p>\n

First, it\u2019s got 12 GB of that unobtanium once called \u201cRAM\u201d. It\u2019s got an 8-core ARM processor in its Snapdragon Elite SOC, with the two performance cores clocked at 4.74 GHz \u2014 which isn\u2019t a world record, but it\u2019s pretty snappy. The other six cores aren\u2019t just doddling along at 3.62 GHz. Except for the very youngest of our readers, you probably remember a time when the world\u2019s greatest supercomputers had as much computing power as this phone.<\/p>\n

So it should be no suprise that when [ETA Prime] plugs it into a monitor (using USB-C, natch<\/a>) he\u2019s able to do all the usual computational tasks without trouble. A big part of that is the desktop mode Samsung phones have had for a while now; we\u2019ve seen hackers make use of it in years gone by<\/a>. It\u2019s still Android, but Android with a desktop-and-windows interface.<\/p>\n

What are the hard tasks? Well, there\u2019s photo and video editing, which the hardware can handle. Though [ETA] notes that it\u2019s held back a bit because Adobe doesn\u2019t offer their full suite on Android. But what\u2019s really taxing for most of us is gaming. Android gaming? Well, obviously a flagship phone can handle anything in the play store.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s PC gaming that\u2019s pretty impressive, considering the daisy chain of compatibility<\/a> needed last time we looked at gaming on ARM. Cyberpunk 2077 gets frame rates near 60, but he needs to drop down to \u201clow\u201d graphics and 720p to do it. You may find that ample, or you may find it unplayable; there\u2019s really no accounting for taste.<\/p>\n

We might not always like carrying an everything device<\/a> with us at all times, but there\u2019s something to be said in not duplicating that functionality on your desk. Give it a couple of years when these things hit the used market at decent prices, and unless PC parts drop in price, convergence might start to seem like a great idea to those of us who aren\u2019t big gamers and don\u2019t need floppy drives.<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was an ideal of convergence, a long time ago, when one device would be all you need,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49,48,190,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-530127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}