Despite the high specs that made it a handset «almost full description», the phone «Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus» in the weeks after its arrival to the hands of users, to present itself as a complete replacement for laptops, as many dreamers hoped to enter the real era in the post Portable personal computers, as a logical introduction to the post-desktop era.

These hopes were shattered on a small screen rock and a writing board that did not offer the features of a regular writing pad, making the distance to meet the predictions made by the industry's top pioneers such as Microsoft's Bill Gates and Apple's Steve Jobs. David Clarke, a famous computer scientist at the MIT Institute of Technology, in the 1990s on the post-personal era.

The analyst, president of TechProResis and TechRepublic's editor in chief Bill Detweller, subjected the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus to an extensive technical review in terms of how close it is to working as a complete replacement for laptops. He published a report on the matter, on Sunday 25th, through the network «zdnet» zdnet.com, a specialist in technology, which concluded that «Note 10 Plus», along with other giant smartphones, led by folding smartphones, still stands Powerless to achieve this step. The laptop is still the broadest and most prevalent choice for work and computing on the go, both for individuals in person and for employees in organizations, companies and organizations.

The advice that can be provided in this regard is that "do not do without your laptop for Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus or others", it is not time yet.

Personal computers

Analyst Bill Dett Wheeler is not the only person or the first to review mobile devices such as phones, from the perspective of approaching the era of personal computers. The Galaxy Note 10 Plus is not the only device or the first to undergo such an assessment. The idea has been alive since the 1990s, when Bill Gates and David Clarke first spoke in 1999. Newsweek magazine, in which he spoke of the next era of personal computers, called «PC Plus» in which the PC remains «the basic computing tool», but works «in tandem with other wonderful devices».

David Clarke delivered a speech at the “Post-Computer World” conference in which he said that everything would be connected to the network, so that all services, from entertainment, communications, trade, production, etc., could be accessed through a variety of devices. Instead of a computer.

In 2007, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs appeared together at the D5 conference, in one of the rare meetings that brought the two men together. During the meeting, the two spoke of a world of general-purpose computing devices, as well as a specialized service based on personal computers. "This general-purpose device will continue with us and transform with us, whether it's a tablet, a portable device, or whatever," Jobs said.

«Galaxy Note»

When evaluated as a replacement for laptops, Bill Ditt Wheeler said, “The Galaxy Note 10 Plus contains everything you can need in a mobile phone, great performance, abundant storage and more.” Wheeler used five evaluation criteria:

1. Components: In this standard, the Galaxy Note 10 Plus stands on an equal footing with modern mobile devices, and has more than enough power to run a standard enterprise productivity program and do basic work, but it is definitely not a replacement for devices that offer advanced image and video editing functions.

2 - Keyboard and mouse: «Galaxy Note 10 Plus» alternative «circumstantial», ie in certain circumstances for laptops, assisted by the technology «Samsung DEX», which allows to connect to an external monitor and keyboard and mouse, and even a desktop or laptop Whether running Windows or Macintosh, as well as the possibility of sharing the keyboard and mouse, but the Galaxy Note itself and its capabilities does not provide an alternative to the traditional keyboard and mouse.

3 - Screen: The screen is the biggest dilemma impeding the arrival of Samsung Note 10 Plus to the level of the full replacement of the laptop, it is touch, and wonderful clarity, but small enough to make it difficult to create presentations, or work using spreadsheets, or writing Anything longer than a sentence or two, displaying just three inches, may be lost almost half when using the on-screen keyboard. The use of DEX technology does not solve the problem, because it automatically means that the phone needs the laptop and its screen in order to work on it with sufficient flexibility, and this is exactly what is required to stay away from it in order to become a phone replacement for the computer.

4 - Communications: The «Galaxy Note 10 Plus» of course, as it offers all the advantages and features of communications efficiently.

5 - Figure: «Galaxy Note 10 Plus» slightly closer to the shape of the laptop, but still in the overall appearance of a phone.

Beyond PC

The Galaxy Note 10 Plus means that Samsung has moved a step closer to the entire post-PC world, but has not yet reached it, as the day it announced the Galaxy Note 10 Plus launched the Galaxy Book S laptop. Powered by an ARM processor, and always connected over mobile networks, it runs Windows 10.

- The predictions of the 1990s and beyond by Bill Gates and Steve Jobs for the post-personal world were not fully realized.