What if your smartphone can actually become your desktop? Since the release of the first smartphone, inventors have visualized the pocketable PC, a mighty powerful computer right in your pocket. Previous attempts like the Ubuntu Edge have proven too isolated to see success. Andromium, a new company founded to launch a Kickstarter for a product of the same name, aspires to avoid the fate to its forefathers by piggybacking popular devices. This Andromium Kickstarter wants to give you a real desktop experience.

Although it may not match a desktop or even a laptop in power, however, it makes up for portability and convenience.

Andromium, in simple words is an alternative enviroment for Android that looks and feels like a desktop operating system. It not only has a taskbar but it's also designed for a screen that is in landscape orientation and also provides full support for keyboard, mouse and monitor. All of this is enabled through a combination of a custom dock with video outputs, a combination of softwares and USB ports.

The dock is the size of a Roku and sports a flip cover that protects it during travel. Andromium originally was intended to only support the Samsung Galaxy line of smartphones, however, backer pressure has inspired the company to extend support to the HTC One, LG N4/N5, and the Nexus 6. Even "Large screen tablets" will be supported but the details on that are not clear.

The Andromium affirms it will come in two parts, hardware and software. The hardware part apparently is less exciting and comparitively easier to pull off. Basically, it is a smartphone dock with a dedicate HDMI port for connecting with an external display. Additionally, it feature three USB ports as that enables it to connect peripherals such as wireless keyboard and mouse combo and maybe a game controller. That part is not quiet challenging and can be accomplished with a few tricks a connectors; however, the entire point of the Andromium hardware is convenience and portability.

Andromium is after all a Kickstarter campaign, one that is looking for $100,000 to help develop the platform, specifically improve the OS. They are not asking much for a single piece, $29 for early birds. So far, the campaign has reached a tenth of its goal. Considering there are still 45 days left, there might be some hope that this dream will come true.