[Joeri]

If the phone hardware was more powerful, and the win32 app support was there, it could replace your PC. You'd have a USB-C dock, with keyboard, screen and mouse, into which you plug your phone. Your phone is your PC, and when you leave you take it with you along with all your files and all your software.

You could combine it with something like a nexdock to also turn it into a laptop. Would be cheaper than getting a phone, and a desktop pc and a laptop, and it would avoid all those nasty issues with keeping devices in sync.

The qualcomm 820 already performed at core m levels, and the 835 is 25% faster, so it should be fine if paired with enough ram and storage.

[hyperpallium]

Sorry, I wrote GP with an extra thread in mind without referencing it, about how phones-as-desktops hasn't happened https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13333797

The problem isn't power. Phones have been powerful enough for about 5 years (since around iPhone 4s, as a means of dating it).