I'm sure this will eventually apply to phones. I know it's been tried a couple of times (Motorola Atrix, various Kickstarter laptop/desktop phone docks), but one day it will happen. Why should a home user need a whole separate laptop or desktop if they could just have peripherals on their desk and just dock their phone to drive them all?
All we really need is a port that can drive all the peripherals at once (we have that on most phones via OTG), the power to run a 1080p display (we have that too, phone displays are usually even higher res than that), and the ability to run common home-use desktop apps (we're getting there, as MS/Google/Apple continue unifying their mobile and desktop OSes).
The next step would be to have all that be wireless, which I'm guessing isn't too far away on the Bluetooth roadmap, or even wifi streaming like Chromecast/Nvidia/Steam.
I'm sure professional use will lag behind, but even that will catch up eventually, especially with the possibility of docks adding hardware to an existing device (like the better video card in the Surface Book's keyboard module).
All we really need is a port that can drive all the peripherals at once (we have that on most phones via OTG), the power to run a 1080p display (we have that too, phone displays are usually even higher res than that), and the ability to run common home-use desktop apps (we're getting there, as MS/Google/Apple continue unifying their mobile and desktop OSes).
The next step would be to have all that be wireless, which I'm guessing isn't too far away on the Bluetooth roadmap, or even wifi streaming like Chromecast/Nvidia/Steam.
I'm sure professional use will lag behind, but even that will catch up eventually, especially with the possibility of docks adding hardware to an existing device (like the better video card in the Surface Book's keyboard module).