the dream of the next Doc is alive the
dream that I'm talking about is the dream to use your phone as your computer
I've covered a few NEX docks on ShortCircuit and LTT over the years and they
have a new one now it's the NEX do XL if you're unaware the next do is a laptop
like Bare Bones kit there's no computer in here per se you're supposed to
connect your phone or anything else that has HD Mi output and use it as a monitor
slash keyboard trackpad touchcreen so
we're going to get all into that first I want to see what's in the box here so
you got your charging and connection guide they're still making things with
mini HDMI I actually didn't know that but you get a HDMI to Mini HDMI cord
that looks about what 3T 4T there is a o
like a flat USB typc Toc and it has 20
gbits per second printed on it you've also got a longer us BC Toc this is a
45w power adapter to charge the 49w hour
battery inside the laptop itself and
then you also have a region adapter for
I think this is Europe right here I'm holding Europe in my hands and Korea
they also like regulation I like the brushed Metal finish on here bit
fingerprint but I also have hair product on my hands which is just something to
keep in mind um we might as well look at the ports while we're here though on
this side we've got the power button a Micro SD card slot and a usba a port and
a headphone jack on the other side we've got two USBC ports and the mini HDMI
port now that one is used for display in obviously oh I should also say you don't
need to use the wired connection uh to control the keyboard and trackpad
because this also supports Wireless like the last version okay let's open her up
I'm I'm actually excited yeah it's very stiff hinge wow that is a completely
different layout keyboard on the left trackpad on the right you either like it
or you don't I think that it's okay first questions okay my biggest
complaints about the last next do were the keyboard Flex ooh ooh next do you
listen to me I feel so heard thank you
clickiness of the keys very nice tactile
bump up here I believe is a wireless
charging pad for your phone which is why you need this magnetic
uh Circle ooh yeah cuz like that's where
I put it okay let's see if I just
eyeballed it is that will it do it okay
so you can just eyeball it and it seems like it'll charge nice okay let's
complete the hardware tour here just like last time it's got a nice you know
sturdy hinge it'll stay pretty much at whatever angle you want there's a little
bit of wobble to it and yeah you can go all the way around and use it like that
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
to this machine a phone another Windows
device if you want a second monitor some of these new gaming handhelds so you
have a bigger screen for your steam deck or your Windows based handheld or
whatever but for today's video I'm going to use a Samsung Galaxy alal s23 Ultra
you can use a USBC cable you can connect wirelessly via mirrorcast I believe it
is and then Bluetooth for the touchpad and the keyboard and you can also swipe
down here with two fingers to show settings nice and there's the display
information right there we're running at 1080p display at 60 HZ I believe 60 HZ
is only going to be over wired and wireless is going to be 30 I'm going to
do wireless first all right so wireless display but I can use a touchpad on the
phone yeah okay we're in the
trackpad is working it is very choppy but you know this is why
I want to do wireless first most of the time if you have your phone right here
you might as well plug it in but I guess they're like you know maybe if you're if
your if your cabl being buggy or something there's always the option to
use wireless as a fallback I can't see the freaking cursor jeez that's annoying
I can already give my verdict on the trackpad the wireless connection for the
trackpad is not usable I'm sorry I'm
sorry next do I wonder if it's any better if I use the phone as a as a
touchpad Samsung should have thought about this that I have Sticky Fingers
I'm constantly stealing things nobody said that the phone is a PC thing would
be great okay let's get wired dude yes
yes and ooh oh that Mouse feels so much
better honestly if the background if the default background wasn't like super
dark I wouldn't be so frustrated right now but I literally when the cursor is
over here I literally just the cursor is right here right now you can't see it so
there's stuff there's there's cursor settings in in the Samsung settings but
not for decks this is not a video about decks regardless of my frustrations with
like decks and the kind of just ease of use things that they still have to add
the touchpad is leagues better than the
last one there was a big problem with ghost touches maybe because it's over on
the right side now so maybe that was a big reason why they
moved it over I don't know regardless that problem is uh largely fixed
keyboard is very responsive and I
honestly like this keyboard it's clicky it's tactile it's responsive what else
do you want and it doesn't Flex you know it it again it says nothing about next
do but it says something about this dream that I'm still I still believe in
there was another ghost touch there was another ghost touch the ghost touches
are still there please upgrade the trackpad please please please please I
am like a Believer I want to go and plug my phone into a lapt and use it as my
computer there will be a previous there will be a video sometime in the future
where we make this work by sheer force of will there's a there's a shortcut to
go to the multitasking menu but I I I
they were the shortcuts were bad so I didn't remember what they were um maybe
it freaked out because I I you know switched the audio out
put what is this where are we what
that's an ad I go to YouTube I search crab Rave I get this is an
ad and then the search results and then another huge
ad all right we're back we're back show
me what you got
please yep turning it up and down on the phone affects the volume on the next
dock okay okay all right based on my
very subjective uh analysis comparing
that to my memory of how it sounded the last time I remember saying last time
that the speakers were not good my immediate reaction to these is not that
they're not good they're not great but
they're fine they sound like more
powerful phone speakers maybe you know you're not going to be like powering a
house party with with the Vibes with the with the with the jams coming from your
lap dock accessory okay so like I said
it's a 1080p display uh it's running at
60 HZ over the wired connection according to NEX do it only gets up to
300 nits so I find myself in a similar
situation uh with the NEX do XL here that I was uh with the NEX do wireless
and the model before that which is that
it's still cool it's still inspiring it's still something that I want deep
inside myself that came out wrong this is a imperfect way to realize
this dream it is encouraging to see the changes that NEX stock has made
particularly to the keyboard it's less flexy it's it's a tactile it's nice to
type on ghosting issue is still there
sometimes you move the the cursor around and then you accidentally touch it and
it just jumps to the other side of the of the screen I also didn't say in the
beginning of the video that it feels heftier it feels less like kind of just
a plastic shell and more like there's something in there uh which is the
battery which is another unfortunate aspect of this they quoted at 7 plus
hours of battery life which is disappointing there's no computer in
here to suck battery life so I'm not sure what's what's going on there it's
only a 49w hour battery so next dock
please upgrade the touchpad model put a bigger battery in there normal next do
wireless 13in version is $300 this one is
329 330 all in all it's nice to see them
drop the price a little bit and make it a little bit more affordable make that
argument for getting one of these and using your phone or another device
instead of like a Chromebook a bit more compelling please keep going next stock
please early adopters enthusiasts if you're into this dream as I am pick one
up Tinker around everyone else should probably not buy this but it's for it's
for the faithful we can do this we can do this together and you can subscribe
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