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Now that would be sweeeeet. Instant work station any place you go. If the phone has qwerty keyboard that detaches you are even better off. And then, like they said, use the screen as a track pad. Perfect for light to moderate use. Bring a wireless keyboard/mouse for heavy use. ]]>Feb 2nd 2010 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/
Totally, Pico Projector ftw. Then they just need to make smaller bluetooth keyboards that can fold up and fit in the pocket (if not already created) and we're all set.]]>Feb 2nd 2010 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/Feb 2nd 2010 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/
If a corporate environment cannot afford to provide a keyboard and mouse combo on a desk, yet can provide a landline I don't want to work for them.

As a side note; isn't it ironic that there is a landline phone in the pic, when Citrix should be designing these devices to allow for internal calls (i.e. extensions)?]]>Feb 2nd 2010 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/
D'you reckon it has an annoying meme-seeking killsat?

That would make it the best phone ever.]]>Feb 2nd 2010 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/So now we have 3D glasses, dumb terminals, tapes for backup, tube amplifiers, nixie clocks, long wave radio, so what else did they have back then? Oh wait I know, CRT's will be invented in 2 months time.

]]>Feb 2nd 2010 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/looks promising. ]]>Feb 2nd 2010 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/
What in the hell would you need a slate for? Or a desktop computer, for that matter? When your cell phone has a 1.5GHz dual core processor, 1GB of RAM, a 64GB MicroSD card, and runs Android...why do you need any other computer? Why not just carry that with you everywhere, and just attached a monitor/keyboard/mouse when you want to sit down and use it?]]>Feb 2nd 2010 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/Feb 2nd 2010 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/
The slate would also be another device to carry around, and even worse, one that won't fit into a pocket. It's the reason why the iPad is going to be an iFail.]]>Feb 2nd 2010 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/
The next Maemo device from Nokia will hopefully have HDMI out and skip that dated composite video. It is also possible to install an OS into the phone's memory and boot off it as a USB drive. The possibilities are endless. Because this is a VM I bet it runs as painfully slow as the OSX hack we saw for N900 the other day and that is why he doesn't record himself playing with it since windows doesn't run on ARM.

http://nokiaexperts.com/nokia-n900-tips-bluetooth-keyboard-external-display/]]>Feb 2nd 2010 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/Feb 2nd 2010 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/
You've misunderstood how Citrix works. It's not running on the phone, it's connecting to a remote server (i.e. at your office) and viewing/using the desktop over an ICA connection. It should be as fast and responsive as a 'normal' PC. It's not a virtual machine running on the phone, and other than the streaming of the display, there's no processing taking place on the phone.]]>Feb 2nd 2010 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/
@pottaargh How does that compare to good ol' VNC?]]>Feb 2nd 2010 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/They are essentially the same idea.. Although citrix is used more in cloud computing rather than just a remote desktop connection.]]>Feb 2nd 2010 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/
ICA is far more robust and efficient than either VNC or RDP. Really though, the clever part is what is going on back at the office with the Citrix servers. VNC or RDP, you're taking sessions and essentially using taking over the remote computer. Citrix is for multi user environments, so you could have one server serving 20, 50, 100 desktops out to users. You're only limited by your licensing and horsepower of the server. ]]>Feb 2nd 2010 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/I see the useful possibilities for this in a corporate environment. Personally I would never entrust my data to the "cloud". VNC is free and works just fine for my uses without me worrying about some corporation having access to my private stuff.]]>Feb 2nd 2010 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/
---> anyone who works at an office that has lots of human visitors should see the benefit of a phone/pc device. We already have to leave quite a few monitors and keyboards unplugged for visitors with laptops to use (because they can't get the hang of typing on the itty-bitty keyboard and looking at the itty-bitty laptop screen). Then there are the people who show up, without a laptop, who expect you to scrounge something up so they can login to the corporate intranet while they are visiting. These people don't want to be encumbered by bringing their own laptop, BUT, they don't seem to mind carrying a cellphone --- if they can plug that into a monitor/keyboard and not have to interrupt our IT people that would indeed be "Nirvana"]]>Feb 2nd 2010 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/Feb 2nd 2010 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/
Uhm, I don't want to use my smartphone interface running through a (proprietary) low-res, standard definition video source.

Call me when the video is running at 720p or higher, through HDMI, with an actual desktop interface (or at least something on-par with Chrome OS).]]>Feb 2nd 2010 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/
Meh with the Tegra 2 board coming out this year you can pretty much put this on a phone and have a full browing experience with streaming 720p on youtube.

Actually the current Tegra could do this with the right software so wake the hell up...]]>Feb 2nd 2010 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/]]>Feb 2nd 2010 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/Feb 2nd 2010 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/Feb 2nd 2010 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/Feb 2nd 2010 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRI4n1LkpWA

It's not Citrix, but it's the same idea.]]>Feb 2nd 2010 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/Feb 2nd 2010 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/citrix-nirvana-phone-provides-the-full-desktop-experience-byo/
On top of that, with THREE competing vendors offering darn near FREE server virtualization products of their own that are already at "good enough" to use status, again read it "FREE", the pricey vSphere product from a one trick pony vendor is facing an uphill challenge to remain relevant. Remember Novell, NetScape, Real Networks. Free always kills in the end.
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