NexDock Transforms Your Phone Into a Laptop Wirelessly

[TheLostSwede]

Today, Nex Computer is excited to announce the launch of NexDock Wireless, the latest version of its innovative device that turns smartphones into a laptop. With NexDock Wireless, users can now connect their smartphones to the device wirelessly using Bluetooth and Miracast technology. This means that they can enjoy all the benefits of NexDock, including a larger screen, physical keyboard, and trackpad, without the need for a cable.

"We're thrilled to bring NexDock Wireless to market," said Emre Kosmaz, CEO and founder of Nex Computer. "This latest version takes the convenience and versatility of NexDock to the next level, and we can't wait for users to experience it for themselves."




With NexDock, users can enjoy all the benefits of a laptop, including a larger screen, physical keyboard, and trackpad, without the need for a built-in processor or storage. Instead, NexDock relies on the processing power and storage of a connected smartphone to run applications and store data.

Whether you're a busy professional on the go, a student looking for a portable study solution, or simply someone who wants to get more out of their smartphone, NexDock Wireless is the perfect tool for you. It's compatible with a wide range of Android smartphones that support "desktop mode", including "Samsung DeX," "Motorola Ready For" and comes with a built-in battery that can also charge the smartphone.

Don't miss out on this exciting new product. Order NexDock Wireless today and experience the convenience and versatility of a smartphone-powered laptop.

Pricing and Availability:
NexDock Wireless is now available to order for $349 USD on NexDock.com.

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[WorringlyIndifferent]

what if I want to turn my laptop into a phone?

 

[natr0n]

Someone's gonna buy a cheap shitty low tier brand walmart phone and expect a gaming pc.

Guarantee this happens

 

[ArcanisGK507]

what if I want to turn my laptop into a phone?

Use skype... in your laptop with wireless hearbud.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
For those that can't use miracast ?

Supposed to be apps to do this for android/ apple devises.

 

[trsttte]

Hi,
For those that can't use miracast ?

Supposed to be apps to do this for android/ apple devises.

Apple refuses to support anything that's not Airplay, Google went the same way with Android, hiding and mostly disabling miracast to boost chromecast sales and adoption.

If your phone supports Wifi Direct it most likely can support miracast in some way. There are some confusing options in android that may enable that (samsung and other android phones still support miracast so the feature still exist in the os even if broken in confusing pieces), or alternative OS's like Lineage that (i think) still have full support enabled. Either way, good luck!

 

[silentbogo]

The main issue, is that miracast sucks. In order for this thing to work, it has to be wired. Nexdock already have a wired version of their "lapdock", but the main issue is in the smartphone industry itself:
1) No standardized "desktop" mode. I've been waiting for half-a-decade already, and haven't seen anything viable beyond DeX. Every year we see "leaks" and "hints" that will finally bring desktop mode and windowed apps mainstream, but every year it doesn't go beyond beta testing. Heck, even on my Poco it's hidden behind "Developer Options" and still limited to 1080p over USB2.0.
2) Stupid USB2.0. It's 2023, and still most phones use USB2, which means slow speeds and not a hint of alt modes.
Until both of these change, I'll have to stick with my trusty Thinkpad x240, but still looking forward to a bright future, where a "supercomputer in my pocket" can at least run Google Docs on the big screen.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

What a bargain price, it's 50 more than my phone and while wireless I can achieve similar with a simple usb c dock for a seventh of the cost.

 

[Synthwave]

What a bargain price, it's 50 more than my phone and while wireless I can achieve similar with a simple usb c dock for a seventh of the cost.

Yeah, if you buy a monitor, keyboard and mouse/touchpad as well, if your dock station has already a microSD card reader. Also, that USB-C dock must not be too awesome for 50 bucks.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Yeah, if you buy a monitor, keyboard and mouse/touchpad as well, if your dock station has already a microSD card reader. Also, that USB-C dock must not be too awesome for 50 bucks.

To be fair to me I didn't notice it was a laptop without any guts or my mockery would have been more on point.

I don't see it as a winner still, just buy a chrome book.

It'll find a niche, but f#@£ knows where, I can count the number of times I've seen or heard interest in such a thing in zero seconds.

 

[trsttte]

To be fair to me I didn't notice it was a laptop without any guts or my mockery would have been more on point.

I don't see it as a winner still, just buy a chrome book.

It'll find a niche, but f#@£ knows where, I can count the number of times I've seen or heard interest in such a thing in zero seconds.

I think the lack of interest comes from 1) many people not even realizing this is possible and 2) decent implementations of this concept barely exist (only samsung dex which only exists on higher end galaxy devices, and it appears motorola now also has a version? I don't know how that works, first time I heard about it)

This generall idea goes as back as windows phone, at the time the software wasn't very mature and the hardware was lacking for this kind of solution. Now the hardware is more than good enought to make something very good but no one seems to be interested in putting the work into making software for it to become a reality.

Afterall, why sell a phone and a cheap laptop-dock when you can sell a phone a full laptop right?

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

I think the lack of interest comes from 1) many people not even realizing this is possible and 2) decent implementations of this concept barely exist (only samsung dex which only exists on higher end galaxy devices, and it appears motorola now also has a version? I don't know how that works, first time I heard about it)

This generall idea goes as back as windows phone, at the time the software wasn't very mature and the hardware was lacking for this kind of solution. Now the hardware is more than good enought to make something very good but no one seems to be interested in putting the work into making software for it to become a reality.

Afterall, why sell a phone and a cheap laptop-dock when you can sell a phone a full laptop right?

Cheap laptop dock?!.

To be wireless it's going to have a arm cored controller and everything else required for a Chromebook?!

IE it's a Chromebook with some link software and no chrome OS.

I'll just buy a Chromebook for the same money use my Google account,drive and apps and not bother with this pile of toss at all.

And not waste my phone battery while using my laptop ISH thing.

It's like a portable monitor for your desktop pc IMHO, an idea full of pointlessness arse.

 

[Nuke Dukem]

I think the lack of interest comes from 1) many people not even realizing this is possible and 2) decent implementations of this concept barely exist (only samsung dex which only exists on higher end galaxy devices, and it appears motorola now also has a version? I don't know how that works, first time I heard about it)

This generall idea goes as back as windows phone, at the time the software wasn't very mature and the hardware was lacking for this kind of solution. Now the hardware is more than good enought to make something very good but no one seems to be interested in putting the work into making software for it to become a reality.

Afterall, why sell a phone and a cheap laptop-dock when you can sell a phone a full laptop right?

Agreed. While I can absolutely understand the motivation behind this, the product feels like an attempt to peddle something that really shouldn't exist, because it tries to solve a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. It should be just "plug & play", but yet here we are.

Maybe consumer demand isn't there (yet), otherwise manufacturers would have cared enough to do something about it. Phone hardware has been powerful enough to run in "desktop mode" for a while now - they don't really have much to worry about here. Software's trickier, but I could see if they tried to tackle it with some clever a-la Wine solutions for native desktop stuff and enforce universal standards on how a native mobile app can run in desktop mode.

 

[trsttte]

Cheap laptop dock?!.

To be wireless it's going to have a arm cored controller and everything else required for a Chromebook?!

IE it's a Chromebook with some link software and no chrome OS.

I'll just buy a Chromebook for the same money use my Google account,drive and apps and not bother with this pile of toss at all.

And not waste my phone battery while using my laptop ISH thing.

It's like a portable monitor for your desktop pc IMHO, an idea full of pointlessness arse.

It's not nearly the same hw as a chromebook but let's say it is for the sake of argument. Imagine you have a flagship ~1k$ dollar phone in your pocket, why would you want to use a budget 300$ chromebook that's slow as shit when your phone has much higher performance?

Phones are very overpowered nowadays, it doesn't even make sense. If they're going to continue to push performance arbitrarily higher and higher, let's at least do something useful with it.

To the point of the price, and if it's wireless or not, etc. well for now (and sadly for the foreseeable future) this is a niche category that most won't care for (not even me since my phone doesn't have a usable desktop mode or display alt mode ), maybe one day this will get more popular.

Software's trickier, but I could see if they tried to tackle it with some clever a-la Wine solutions for native desktop stuff and enforce universal standards on how a native mobile app can run in desktop mode.

I don't think it's even that trickier. Google knows how to do containers. They also know how to run linux on arm. They also know how to virtualize platforms. They even have already made a pretty nice desktop environment of their own (chrome os). They even made something very close to this in chromeos (crostini - linux container in chrome os).

It's just a matter of putting the pieces together

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

It's not nearly the same hw as a chromebook but let's say it is for the sake of argument. Imagine you have a flagship ~1k$ dollar phone in your pocket, why would you want to use a budget 300$ chromebook that's slow as shit when your phone has much higher performance?

Phones are very overpowered nowadays, it doesn't even make sense. If they're going to continue to push performance arbitrarily higher and higher, let's at least do something useful with it.

To the point of the price, and if it's wireless or not, etc. well for now (and sadly for the foreseeable future) this is a niche category that most won't care for (not even me since my phone doesn't have a usable desktop mode or display alt mode ), maybe one day this will get more popular.



I don't think it's even that trickier. Google knows how to do containers. They also know how to run linux on arm. They also know how to virtualize platforms. They even have already made a pretty nice desktop environment of their own (chrome os). They even made something very close to this in chromeos (crostini - linux container in chrome os).

It's just a matter of putting the pieces together

For simple surfing and 90% of office tasks that Chromebook is fine for heavy gaming, we have many streaming options I have also ignored, so 1000£ phone or 350£ Chromebook, meh, to both.

The laptop format allows for better cooling and performance potential then a phone and as it says it has a battery and Can charge the phone they know damn well that intense use of a phone, wireless, leads quickly to the charging cable.

This shits will indeed be great in 20/30 years when fold out touch screens redefine this whole concept into something actually useful.

There are some steps by few, towards in home shared computation, anyway.

I'm not a fan, you are, that's ok.

But not even you are buying it