Here's an interesting one. The ASUS Padfone. You gotta give props to ASUS right now for experimenting with different form factors. Between this, the Transformer, and the Slider, they are really innovating. This looks pretty awesome. The phone slots into the back of the tablet to power it. It's already been noted that changing the pixel density on Honeycomb turns it into Gingerbread's UI, so perhaps that's how this will function.
I gotta say this kind of thing makes sense from a consumer angle. Why buy a phone AND a tablet? Especially now with dual core processors and soon quad-core. Especially if you want cellular data on both because the carriers are trying to get you to pay for TWO data plans which is just unnecessary.
Now that Android has USB hosting, I see no reason why you couldn't connect this kind of device to a USB monitor and wireless keyboard/mouse also. Thus, your phone could function as a phone, tablet, and and a more traditional desktop interface.
I think this kind of convergence is where the market is going to head and that's a good thing. We all have so many devices now and surely it's not necessary. I have a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet, and a phone. And a Kodak Zi8 HD camcorder. (within a couple of years the cameras in phones will match it, that's why Cisco killed off their FlipCams) And I kinda wanna buy a ChromeOS netbook lol.
But if the devices we buy were simply low cost hollow shells - like this Padphone tablet part without the phone part... or the Motorola ATRIX laptop dock..... that would be pretty awesome. You could have a big-ass USB monitor, a thin, foldout bluetooth keyboard/mouse.... with your phone powering it all. Combine that with perhaps a large wireless hard drive and you'd be sorted.
You could even power your TV with it as well. If Google TV merges into the main fork of Android and simply has the ability to detect when it's being connected or pushed to a TV and display the right interface....
At some point I see phones just powering everything in our homes. I guess that fits nicely with the Android@Home automation project as well! I welcome our Google overlords
