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oh yeah so this is a little awkward see

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this right here is a laptop but it's also

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not a laptop well i guess it depends on how you

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define it most people probably expect a laptop to have things that the nextdoc 2

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doesn't have like an operating system or storage a RAM or even

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a processor this is just a screen keyboard trackpad and some ports there's

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a battery inside but it's not just a prop for a display at ikea the next top

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two could very well be the future of computing

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the next doc 2 is part of a very small category of devices known as lap docs

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laptop shaped shells that you can dock

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some other computing device into motorola was first to take a swing at

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this idea in 2011 with the atrix 4g

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for just an extra 300 you could get a compatible laptop to run

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motorola's web top software complete with browser and a handful of

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applications it was basically like me in grade 8. it

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was lame and nobody liked it microsoft partially revived the concept

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with continuum in 2015 a desktop mode

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for Windows phones but well i think we all know what

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happened to Windows phones pour one out boys since then we've seen

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a few attempts at the concept but razer's project linda never arrived and

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there's a ton of people commenting on the crowdfunding pages for the mirrorbook and superbook that they never

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actually got their units bringing us back then to the next dock too

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most people are expected to use it with a smartphone that has a desktop mode so

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samsung phones with decks and huawei phones that support emui desktop but

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this is cool you can hook up basically anything you want to it there are some

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slightly janky Android forks and home screen launchers that will work with any

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phone you can hook up a raspberry pi or a similar micro pc for what is probably

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the cheapest overall configuration and if you really wanted to you could even

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hook up a game console to it if it's got an HDMI port it'll plug into the HDMI

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input that's right over right there now let's take a look at the

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rest of the device design wise while the first next docs seem to channel kind of

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a cheap chromebook vibe the next dock too goes more toward macbook air

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territory it's got this smooth looking blasted metal finish which surprisingly

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isn't actually that smooth you know it kind of gives me like a cat tongue or

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like a shark skin vibe like it's way rougher feeling than

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it looks and the unit is surprisingly

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heavy due to a steel inner plate in the bottom and this

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crazy rigid screen like i don't remember the last time i saw a screen with that

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little flex in it i guess so if you're designing this thing to last for

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like multiple compute unit upgrades it

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makes sense to build it as ruggedly as you possibly can the screen is a 13.3

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inch ips lcd with a 1920x1080 resolution

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no touch support and it does have some pretty unfortunate bezels but both of

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those things are apparently being addressed in the next next dock which is

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due sometime in july below the screen we've got a keyboard

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that's got a bit more deck flex than i'd like but is surprisingly nice to type on

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with solid non-wobbly keycaps and a distinct

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tactile bump and much of this review was actually written on it with riley's only

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complaint being that the keys are a little bit on the large side

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unfortunately the trackpad well it's usable but then so is a car that only

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goes backwards the cursor jumps around sometimes when you click on the bottom

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and it'll drift for a half second after you stop moving with your finger also

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you can't even fix that problem with like a firmware update because

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there's no firmware like there what would you install it to on top of that

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the texture of the pad is pretty rough and it's kind of plasticky

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feeling so i'd like a little less friction and maybe a glass surface on the next one if you're listening mr next

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doc thankfully there's a full-size usba 3.0 port on the right side that you can

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use a wired mouse with along with a micro sd card port and a headphone jack

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so you can stick it to the phone manufacturers and still use your

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existing headphones with your phone through a laptop

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optimal on the other side of the machine is of

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course where the magic happens so here we've got our HDMI in with three usb

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type-c ports next to it but don't imagine that you can just plug

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in a bunch of usbc peripherals because all three of these are for very specific

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purposes the leftmost one is just for charging the laptop the middle one is a

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standard USB-C 3.0 that is intended to provide power to raspberry pi's and

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other devices and the one on the right supports the DisplayPort over usbc spec

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so that is where your desktop compatible phone would plug in like we've got it

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right now inside instead of the 38 watt hour battery that was listed in the

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specs on the kickstarter page we actually found a 52 watt hour unit i

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guess they upgraded it since the campaign concluded last april but the extra capacity is definitely appreciated

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since the next dock will actually charge your phone while it's connected enough

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chitchat though let's talk experience we tried it out with samsung dex a

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raspberry pi running raspbian and some other things with HDMI outputs and

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well i don't really know what to tell you it's a monitor with a keyboard and a

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trackpad and a battery now i don't want this video to be about decks or what

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it's like to use a raspberry pi but i will say this if you just need to do

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some web browsing or use word samsung's desktop environment has come a long way

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since when they first showed it off with resizable and snappable Windows keyboard

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shortcuts and a sensible ui the unfortunate reality though is that

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Android apps on desktop lack the polish

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that most people would expect from a desktop or laptop as it were operating

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system bringing us to the question then of if you're relying on Android apps

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anyway why would you get this instead of say a 250 chromebook which has a screen

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keyboard trackpad battery and everything else the answer is

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most people probably wouldn't a chromebook can do everything that a

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phone-connected laptop can do and more and you don't need to have a little

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doohickey hanging off of it the whole time but the appeal of the nextdoc 2 isn't

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really that it's the most sensible option price-wise it's that by getting

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it you're participating in what could be the future of computing smartphones have

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gotten so advanced that many traditionally heavy workloads like even

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video editing are bottlenecked by the cramped user interface rather than by

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the performance of the actual hardware in the future devices like the nextdoc

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could allow occasional users of these types of apps to save some money

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compared to expensive Windows or mac laptops and the kicker is that they get

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to upgrade the performance of the unit over time as they get new phones

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reducing waste as well and to balance some of the dongle inconvenience using

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just one device is pretty cool it means all your files apps and login

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information are with you all the time in their promo video they show a concept

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cafe where there's a stack of available next docs in the shop customers grab a

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dock plug in their phone write their TechLinked fan fiction then they put

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the dock back when they leave with their phone juiced up for the rest of the day

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in this future there's no logins no two-factor authentication everything is

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just ready to go seamlessly or better yet

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what if there was no need to even dock the device at all and all the data could

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just be streamed via 60 gigahertz wi-fi that would be cool

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but let's get back in the tardis and come back to the present for a second

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here the phone desktop experience as we mentioned is just not there yet as a

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true alternative to Windows mac Linux or even chrome os which doesn't mean though

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that i'm not rooting for it i really hope samsung continues to invest in dex

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and i also really hope google stops screwing around and adds a real usable

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desktop mode to Android and enables display output over usbc on their pixel

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lineup while they're at it why not so for now we've got a well-built super

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versatile gadget that can not only combine with your phone as a laptop

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substitute in a pinch but also be a portable monitor for everything from

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consoles to tv sticks to even just acting as a secondary display for your

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real laptop now i wouldn't necessarily recommend the nextdoc 2 to the average

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user but for a certain kind of tinkerer for

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about 250 bucks for this thing i do think it offers a compelling value the

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massdrop sennheiser hd6xx headphones are one of mastrop's all-time best sellers

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they've got an unchanged driver design and sound structure as the hd650 meaning

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you get nice balanced mid-range natural sounding bass they've got a detachable

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six foot cable instead of a 10-foot cable that was based on community feedback they are super comfy the hd i

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forget if they're 600 or 650s but one of the two those are actually my daily

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drivers they sound pretty similar and they use an eighth inch plug that's

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versatile for everyday use with a quarter inch adapter if you're into that

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