Thank you, Mr. marcprux, for the link. Found it at:
youtu.be / qJle6Bki4Og
Sometimes, I suffer from the self-delusion of considering myself a visionary. Many of the troubles that we face today regarding smartphones and OS+app universe would have been solved with my ideas, I still seriously think.
From 2013 to 2016 I tried to have my lap/desk -top to function as a smartphone with a calling+data dongle and a close-talk headphone.
This would have helped bypass the need for another OS+application packages ecosystem separate from the robust FOSS environment, thus consuming our already dwindling resources, including positivity, and money for buying a phone with a powerful processor + huge memory.
Our existing infrastructure would have been sufficient, just a few add-ons would have sufficed. Sometimes, a big screen, sometimes a close-talk headphones+mic, sometimes a dongle with a SIM card, sometimes a datacable, et al.
In any case, a small dongle having the ability to access the mobile telephony network, data network, WiFi, BlueTooth and wired connection with a small screen would have sufficed nearly all the time. The rest work the laptop and its FOSS environment would have taken over.
I wrote to many forums and individuals in the positions of movers and shakers, but no solution emerged. As if people had left aside the versatility of laptop and multi-window OS environment to limited capabilities of the smartphones.
Those posts still lie unused as evidence:
If Mobile-> Internet access Modem, why not datacard->mobile
Voice call with softmodem, tel_Line & close-talk headset
If Mobile-> Internet access Modem, why not datacard->mobile
Reading SIM data via file managers using USB datamodem
Usb 3g modem to make/receive calls
Various forum posts capture them.
I still believe that we waste unnecessary money/resources/manpower when we already have a ready ecosystem of Lap(desk)top, networking, internet and the FOSS ecosystem.
But who is going to listen to me, or carefully consider my thoughts?
An adage often comes to my mind: if you see sufficiently ahead than the rest, then you will find yourself walking behind them.