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Samsung's upcoming flagship, Galaxy S8, may arrive with a feature that will beat Apple's forthcoming iPhone 8. However this feature is not new, Microsoft has already used it. It is a feature called Continuum for the HP Elite x3, which help in blurring the lines between the smartphone and the desktop experience.
Samsung is rumored to have taken a page from Microsoft's playbook and saw Continuum as a feature fit for its forthcoming flagship. If reports are proven to be, then the phone will offer a PC-like, full desktop experience.
For those who are uninitiated with Microsoft's phone-as-a-PC feature, the Continuum will let users plug their handsets onto a docking station, whereby an external display, a keyboard, and a mouse may also be plugged alongside to output to give use a complete desktop experience. This will make the phone an ultra-portable PC, similar to how the HP Elite x3 works. The rumor is coming from All About Windows Phone, that obtained a leaked slide from a source.
The slide that purportedly hails from a Galaxy S8 presentation, Shows a workspace concept that's similar to Continuum. The handset is tagged as the "main" component of the whole setup, with the display, keyboard, and mouse tagged as "extended workspace." The phone is also directly plugged to a monitor with an Android logo beside it, and multitasking is portrayed on the screen via multiple windows.
According to Windows Central, the current repetition of Continuum doesn't support multiple windows at a given time. However, the taskbar can show running apps that will allow users to switch between them, but only one window at a time can be run on a single workspace. If Samsung actually comes up with its Continuum-like feature that supports multi-window workspaces, then it could even beat Continuum itself.
The Galaxy S8 is rumored to also sport a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner and an iris scanner. The phone could rock a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip, with a staggering 6 GB of RAM, and feature a self-explanatory "beast mode," deftly suggestive that the phone could be a real powerhouse.
A fountain of rumors has been credited to the Galaxy S8 in recent months, now that it's officially headed for a Mobile World Congress unveiling late February in Barcelona, Spain, where device is rumored to make debut.
