Today’s smartphone, at least high-end, strong enough to be our desktop. Some manufacturers such as Samsung, Motorola, and Huawei have even taken it literally with their own system to play their smartphone to the desktop. Strangely, these companies do not try to build hardware and software ecosystems around these features, which can facilitate users to truly embrace lifestyles and hybrid workflows. Fortunately, it also makes the market open for other players like Nex Computer, which announces two new ways to be productive with your mobile.
To use features such as Samsung Dex or Motorola ready, you need to connect your smartphone to an external display or to a Windows PC. While almost everyone has today, it requires more work than it is necessary to really make a connection, requires users to disconnect the monitor from the computer or start the program on Windows. This configuration is also not portable, which means you cannot fully rely on your smartphone for everything, especially outside.
In 2016, Nexdock dropped to Indiegogo to present what was basically “Lapdock”, a brainless laptop and only the hardware needed to allow dex or ready to be used anywhere at any time. The first iteration of this product is underwhelming, but the company quickly increases its design and quality from time to time. Now out with two new products that add a few bends to equations.
The folded cellphone triggers the imagination of a smartphone that can also be a tablet, but not everyone has resources to be burned for expensive and fragile devices. Some may be satisfied just by connecting their cellphones to a larger screen but are portable, but most of the portable monitors don’t really fit the bill. That’s what FullHD Nexpad is offered 12 inches, but more than just turning your cellphone into a tablet, even though it might have an interface like a desktop.
Special Tricks Nexpad is a magnet area under the screen that acts as a wireless dock for your mobile. You no longer have to think of a way to save the phone, especially when you lift “tablet”. There is also an integrated kickstand if you want to drop it on the table too. This same magnetic feature allows you to attach a nexpad to the back of several laptops to act as the second monitor. Nex explained that this position is more ergonomic than having a side screen.