One of the strangest Windows 10 devices shown off at
CES is the Graalphone, a concept created by a Nice-based French company with
the same name. The device promises to combine a 5 inch Ful HD Qualcomm
Octa-core Android phone with 8 GB memory, and 256GB storage with a 7 inch
Android tablet and also 7 inch Atom Windows PC with a full keyboard, plus as
the 4th component a stereo camera with 5 times optical zoom and a Xenon flash.
While having different processors the Android and
Windows sides would share storage, connectivity and the 3000 mAh battery. The
device would retail for between US$ 800 to US$ 1000 and may hit the market at the end
of 2017 or early 2018.
Apparently designing the hardware has been the easy
bit, and the handset may get thinner in future versions, but the software
integration between Android and Windows will apparently need more work.
Serial inventor Raoul Parienti, who created the
electric car-sharing scheme used in France, the NFC card that Parisians use to
pay their train fares, and more, and who has more than 100 patents, is behind
the idea, and is trying to license the concept to some large OEMs.
