There have been a number of interesting developments emerging from IFA over the past several days. It seems though that hybrid devices made a particularly strong showing, such as the hybrid smartphone and tablet, the Galaxy Note. Additionally and no less notably, Korean Telecom unveiled its all-in-one wonder, the KT SpiderPad, which transforms from smartphone, to tablet, to gaming system, to notebook computer, using a range of accessories.   

The core of the SpiderPad is an Android Gingerbread 4.5” smartphone, which boasts a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of memory, 16 GB of internal storage, a screen resolution of 1080 x 800, and both microUSB and microHDMI. The smartphone can work on its own, and, with a small adapter, will accept typical USB peripherals, including a mouse and keyboard and external hard drive.  

However, where the KT SpiderPad becomes really interesting is that it can also be docked into three shells – a notebook shell which offers a larger screen and keyboard and its own battery, a tablet shell which adds a 10.1" touchscreen to the smartphone’s specifications, and a portable gaming console shell which adds familiar PSP-like controls to either side of the smartphone screen. In all cases, the smartphone specs then serve as the base specifications for the notebook, tablet and gaming extension. None of the shells (notebook, tablet and gaming console) work without the smartphone docked into them.