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> At home we would put our phones into a docking station for more processing power and to connect to a giant physical screen and sound system. I feel like we g
by stordoff 7y ago
> At home we would put our phones into a docking station for more processing power and to connect to a giant physical screen and sound system.
I feel like we got so close to that with Continuum on Windows Phone, but it was far enough away that it never took off. Drop your phone into a USB-C dock, and you'd get 1080p/1200p video out with a Windows 10-esque UI (desktop, Start menu), keyboard/mouse support, plus an additional USB-A. In practice though, the limitations (range of available apps for WP was mediocre, you couldn't run apps side-by-side on the monitor, some apps didn't implement a full screen UI) made it frustrating.
- Zenbit_UX 7y agoHigh-end Samsung phones do this with Dex, though I have only used it once. The app limitations make it nearly useless and. novelty. If anyone can pull it off it would be Apple with some sort of OSX VM.
- diffeomorphism 7y agoSee also the motorola atrix, samsung dex, maruOS, ubuntu phone, ... . Or the other way around with using tablets, phones, chromebooks etc. as thin clients, so whatever you connect to the monitor does not really matter.