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the dream of the next Doc is alive the

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dream that I'm talking about is the dream to use your phone as your computer

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I've covered a few NEX docks on ShortCircuit and LTT over the years and they

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have a new one now it's the NEX do XL if you're unaware the next do is a laptop

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like Bare Bones kit there's no computer in here per se you're supposed to

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connect your phone or anything else that has HD Mi output and use it as a monitor

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slash keyboard trackpad touchcreen so

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we're going to get all into that first I want to see what's in the box here so

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you got your charging and connection guide they're still making things with

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mini HDMI I actually didn't know that but you get a HDMI to Mini HDMI cord

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that looks about what 3T 4T there is a o

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like a flat USB typc Toc and it has 20

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gbits per second printed on it you've also got a longer us BC Toc this is a

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45w power adapter to charge the 49w hour

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battery inside the laptop itself and

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then you also have a region adapter for

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I think this is Europe right here I'm holding Europe in my hands and Korea

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they also like regulation I like the brushed Metal finish on here bit

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fingerprint but I also have hair product on my hands which is just something to

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keep in mind um we might as well look at the ports while we're here though on

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this side we've got the power button a Micro SD card slot and a usba a port and

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a headphone jack on the other side we've got two USBC ports and the mini HDMI

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port now that one is used for display in obviously oh I should also say you don't

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need to use the wired connection uh to control the keyboard and trackpad

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because this also supports Wireless like the last version okay let's open her up

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I'm I'm actually excited yeah it's very stiff hinge wow that is a completely

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different layout keyboard on the left trackpad on the right you either like it

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or you don't I think that it's okay first questions okay my biggest

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complaints about the last next do were the keyboard Flex ooh ooh next do you

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listen to me I feel so heard thank you

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clickiness of the keys very nice tactile

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bump up here I believe is a wireless

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charging pad for your phone which is why you need this magnetic

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uh Circle ooh yeah cuz like that's where

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I put it okay let's see if I just

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eyeballed it is that will it do it okay

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so you can just eyeball it and it seems like it'll charge nice okay let's

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complete the hardware tour here just like last time it's got a nice you know

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sturdy hinge it'll stay pretty much at whatever angle you want there's a little

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bit of wobble to it and yeah you can go all the way around and use it like that

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if you want okay we're going to plug something something in and we're going to see if the phone as a PC dream lives

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so like I said before you can connect pretty much anything with a display out

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to this machine a phone another Windows

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device if you want a second monitor some of these new gaming handhelds so you

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have a bigger screen for your steam deck or your Windows based handheld or

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whatever but for today's video I'm going to use a Samsung Galaxy alal s23 Ultra

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you can use a USBC cable you can connect wirelessly via mirrorcast I believe it

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is and then Bluetooth for the touchpad and the keyboard and you can also swipe

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down here with two fingers to show settings nice and there's the display

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information right there we're running at 1080p display at 60 HZ I believe 60 HZ

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is only going to be over wired and wireless is going to be 30 I'm going to

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do wireless first all right so wireless display but I can use a touchpad on the

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phone yeah okay we're in the

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trackpad is working it is very choppy but you know this is why

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I want to do wireless first most of the time if you have your phone right here

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you might as well plug it in but I guess they're like you know maybe if you're if

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your if your cabl being buggy or something there's always the option to

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use wireless as a fallback I can't see the freaking cursor jeez that's annoying

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I can already give my verdict on the trackpad the wireless connection for the

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trackpad is not usable I'm sorry I'm

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sorry next do I wonder if it's any better if I use the phone as a as a

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touchpad Samsung should have thought about this that I have Sticky Fingers

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I'm constantly stealing things nobody said that the phone is a PC thing would

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be great okay let's get wired dude yes

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yes and ooh oh that Mouse feels so much

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better honestly if the background if the default background wasn't like super

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dark I wouldn't be so frustrated right now but I literally when the cursor is

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over here I literally just the cursor is right here right now you can't see it so

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there's stuff there's there's cursor settings in in the Samsung settings but

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not for decks this is not a video about decks regardless of my frustrations with

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like decks and the kind of just ease of use things that they still have to add

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the touchpad is leagues better than the

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last one there was a big problem with ghost touches maybe because it's over on

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the right side now so maybe that was a big reason why they

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moved it over I don't know regardless that problem is uh largely fixed

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keyboard is very responsive and I

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honestly like this keyboard it's clicky it's tactile it's responsive what else

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do you want and it doesn't Flex you know it it again it says nothing about next

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do but it says something about this dream that I'm still I still believe in

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there was another ghost touch there was another ghost touch the ghost touches

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are still there please upgrade the trackpad please please please please I

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am like a Believer I want to go and plug my phone into a lapt and use it as my

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computer there will be a previous there will be a video sometime in the future

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where we make this work by sheer force of will there's a there's a shortcut to

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go to the multitasking menu but I I I

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they were the shortcuts were bad so I didn't remember what they were um maybe

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it freaked out because I I you know switched the audio out

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put what is this where are we what

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that's an ad I go to YouTube I search crab Rave I get this is an

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ad and then the search results and then another huge

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ad all right we're back we're back show

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me what you got

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please yep turning it up and down on the phone affects the volume on the next

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dock okay okay all right based on my

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very subjective uh analysis comparing

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that to my memory of how it sounded the last time I remember saying last time

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that the speakers were not good my immediate reaction to these is not that

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they're not good they're not great but

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they're fine they sound like more

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powerful phone speakers maybe you know you're not going to be like powering a

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house party with with the Vibes with the with the with the jams coming from your

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lap dock accessory okay so like I said

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it's a 1080p display uh it's running at

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60 HZ over the wired connection according to NEX do it only gets up to

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300 nits so I find myself in a similar

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situation uh with the NEX do XL here that I was uh with the NEX do wireless

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and the model before that which is that

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it's still cool it's still inspiring it's still something that I want deep

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inside myself that came out wrong this is a imperfect way to realize

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this dream it is encouraging to see the changes that NEX stock has made

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particularly to the keyboard it's less flexy it's it's a tactile it's nice to

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type on ghosting issue is still there

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sometimes you move the the cursor around and then you accidentally touch it and

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it just jumps to the other side of the of the screen I also didn't say in the

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beginning of the video that it feels heftier it feels less like kind of just

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a plastic shell and more like there's something in there uh which is the

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battery which is another unfortunate aspect of this they quoted at 7 plus

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hours of battery life which is disappointing there's no computer in

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here to suck battery life so I'm not sure what's what's going on there it's

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only a 49w hour battery so next dock

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please upgrade the touchpad model put a bigger battery in there normal next do

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wireless 13in version is $300 this one is

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329 330 all in all it's nice to see them

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drop the price a little bit and make it a little bit more affordable make that

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argument for getting one of these and using your phone or another device

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instead of like a Chromebook a bit more compelling please keep going next stock

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please early adopters enthusiasts if you're into this dream as I am pick one

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up Tinker around everyone else should probably not buy this but it's for it's

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for the faithful we can do this we can do this together and you can subscribe

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you are uh watch my last next do video