In the future, the phone will just be a hypervisor.

Likely not your solution but may interest you anyways. View quoted note → Android already supports virtualizing desktop operating systems. We want to work on supporting Desktop Linux or Windows ARM apps to run in their own overlayed Windows, or just running a GUI virtual machine (current stock OS only allows terminal).

Exciting! I don't know if I want a VM though. Better than nothing but perhaps there can be better solutions in the future. Is there anything stopping dual booting PostmarketOS (or other mobile distros) and Android?

I don't think Linux works well on phones. Plus, it is nice if the desktop mode is isolated from your main system. If that crashes, the phone still works.

I would like this too. I think one reason it is unworkable is that the android runtime (and thus android apps) are designed to economize the battery usage. This is one of the reasons multitasking on android is clunky -- its not the main feature. Purism made a phone that sort of does what you want. So they claim, but from what I know they are big and slow AF. I wouldn't know because I never got mine -- beware of that company. They will take your money and send you a defective piece of crap or nothing at all.

Such hardware exists, i remember i wanted to get something exactly like that for my Windows Mobile 6. 1 device back in 2009. It was like a laptop you could dock your HTC Tytn II into and it would switch to a larger 14 inch laptop display while recharging your phone. Basically just a laptop shell and battery. 👍 Manufacturers will probably start offering these again after Android 16 fully rolls out widely