CES 2018: turn your smartphone into a laptop with the Mirabook
The Mirabook is an empty laptop that uses the smartphone's processor as its engine. It is mainly designed for Samsung and Huawei smartphones. We had a taste of it at CES 2017 with a prototype, the Mirabook of the Lyon startup Miraxess is now available in final version. Externally, this machine looks like a traditional laptop (32.4 x 21.6 x 1.6 cm) with a 13.3-inch Full HD display and a weight of 1.3 kg. It offers according to the manufacturer up to 10 hours of autonomy. But the device has neither processor nor memory. It uses as engine a high-end smartphone, as powerful, sometimes even more than a PC. For this, the Mirabook has a USB Type-C cable located at the keyboard and compatible with the DisplayPort standard. The PC uses Samsung's DeX and Huawei EMUI Desktop modes, similar to Microsoft's Continuum technology. Miraxess is also working on Mirabook's compatibility with OXI, a modified version of Android designed by Auxens to display the content of its ...