I wish the Motorola Atrix concept of plugging your phone into a laptop-shell and...

e12e · on April 18, 2018

Samsung has a "DeX"-åroduct that aims to do this:

https://www.samsung.com/us/explore/dex/

Would be nice if there was a standard so, any USB c phone could plug into a display - along with the display acting as a hub, and/or Bluetooth for keyboard.

[ed: for desktop/dock. See sibling for sentio - which is for turning phone into laptop]

cubano · on April 18, 2018

This product is too obvious and to doable for it to that far off, so hopefully a bit more patience is all we need.

kinkora · on April 18, 2018

you mean this? https://www.sentio.com/

In android world, the concept is alive & well. I myself use the sentio desktop app to connect to a monitor and use a bluetooth keyboard/mouse.

oneeyedpigeon · on April 18, 2018

And imagine if you could plug in multiple phones.

txsh · on April 18, 2018

I’m convinced Apple is working towards something like this.

jhpankow · on April 18, 2018

Why would they turn your phone into a laptop when they can sell you a Macbook?

eof · on April 18, 2018

Because less people are buying macbooks and maybe you will by a macdock instead?

jack_pp · on April 18, 2018

exactly, it is hard to believe a dock would cannibalize the macbook market

andreareina · on April 18, 2018

Could cannibalize the iPad market instead