[quote=218972:@Emile Schwarz]I do not have a smartphone (I jope a smartphone battery last more than 24 hours !), so this may be wrong.
Isn’t it better to split the battery usage between two batteries (phone / laptop) instead of taking all the energy from a dingle device ?
and back to Desktop / Home, place both devices on charge.[/quote]
1 - iPhone and Galaxy S6 hardly last much more than an average day. They are still far from 24 hours. And if one is extremely talkative, it is even less. Large color screen and powerful processor come at a price…
2 - That is exactly my point : why be forced to drain the smartphone battery to connect, when the tablet could access the network directly ? The logical future is that anything that needs the Internet will be connected with its own chip.
In the US, though, the price revolution we got when Free came to the market did not happen. They still have pitifully expensive plans that include less data. But I just checked T-Mobile, who offers a plan with two lines and 10 GB data for $100 a month.
We lucky French can have two lines from Free.fr for 19.95 a month each (roughly $50 total), and 50 GB on each. When I was visiting in New York, I did not get any local line, since I had unlimited calls for 35 days a year while abroad, and 3 GB Internet.
Back on the Microsoft Surface Book, I do regret (like I do for the Mac Book) that they cannot be fitted with a phone chip. Such ultra compact laptops would make a great lot of sense with direct access to mobile networks.
Still on the same subject, I found out from Tech News Today that the screen part of the Surface Book has a detached autonomy of 3 hours only ! No very much…
https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-today/episodes/1361?autostart=false