wow it's been a while since the whole uh using your phone as a laptop discourse
for a while there it was real hot were you into it I certainly was but now
it seems like not as many people care about it except next doc them and a few
other companies are still trying to make lap docks which are basically laptops
but without a computer inside it does
have a keyboard mouse or trackpad and a
display that can be used basically as an external monitor for anything with a
video output which means that the
opportunities are Limitless
why are you laughing it is a product category that some people do laugh at
because they say oh why would you buy a
laptop with no computer inside when you can buy a laptop for like maybe a bit
more expensive with a computer good side or for the
same price huh you know I said this in the previous
videos but it's because this future where you don't
have to Lug a phone and a laptop and your other devices a power bank blah
blah blah I like this product category and I'm excited to take a look at this
new uh new product but first let's see what else is in this box got a box
within a box all right we have a HDMI to Mini HDMI
cable we have the power adapter which is a 20 watt PD charger we have a USBC 2C
right angle cable and that will be for if you don't want to use the wireless
mode you can connect via a cable and then there is also oh it does kind of a
nice include they have a USB-C to USB a
cable okay the device itself very
exciting there's the next stock logo I don't know why that's their logo I guess
it's because that's a device that you can plug into a Pac-Man and it Pac-Man
turns into the ghost in the video game game
the last next stock that I looked at was the next stock touch which is basically
it was not a fully reversible 360 hinge
neck stock and it could only go back to there so it's nice to see this is my
first experience with the Touch model that they actually have been uh selling
for a while now but in a non-wireless version so this is the USBC Port that
you use for input when they got a helpful little icon there so that's nice
specifically for input don't plug anything else don't over here is the
mini HDMI port which you can use to you know plug in things that don't have USBC
with DisplayPort baked in over here we
have the charging USBC Port that won't
carry data we got a headphone jack we got a Micro SD card slot that's a nice
workaround for phones that don't have built-in expandable storage we've got
the power button and a USBC Port over here which is for data
so that's means that you can also expand your phone or whatever device you're
using even more it's a USBC Hub too guys
please like this product the display here is a 13 inch 1080p
thank you it's IPS so colors should look
okay down here we got what looks like
four speakers one two three four and down here the
track pad that is one area that I really
hope that they've improved on the trackpad in previous models was pretty
lackluster and it had some glitching uh
effects that were made things pretty frustrating so hopefully they've
improved that and the keyboard hmm
another thing that was lacking in the previous models was Flex in the well not
lacking there was too much of it there was too much Flex in the previous models
when you push down you can kind of see the whole thing kind of press in but
that seems to be very much reduced here it still does a little bit but uh
a lot better than it was before now when
you press the power button I guess it comes into this ready to connect mode it
gives you little instructions that's nice okay the two main ways that you can
connect to it USBC cable and wireless to connect wireless and use all the the
keyboard and the trackpad you're gonna have to use Miracast to cast wirelessly
your display and then you're gonna have to connect the keyboard and trackpad I
guess together and the touch screen as Bluetooth devices swipe down here with
two fingers to show settings hello
I'm going to say so down here
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okay what do we got here we got volume brightness contrast I'm supposed to know
what half sun and on a half moon and half Sun are these Egyptian
hieroglyphics so you can change between USBC and HDMI inputs and right now it's
set to cast and then I don't know what these are oh
charging oh can you like disable the charging port maybe we'll have to see
all right let's try casting so we're
using a Samsung phone if you don't know Samsung has a whole Desktop Android
feature called Dex that you know turns
Android into like a desktop environment like Windows start now
and nice okay boom oh oh I but there's no
touch screen and I there's no touch pad so I have to go here and connect the
actual Bluetooth device as well okay so now I'm connected to the keyboard and
the touch screen and I'm casting will this work it will cool you know
honestly I don't want to say that I wasn't
expecting it to be that smooth but I wasn't okay in full disclosure all right
let's let's start using this thing ooh yep there's some latency it's not
unusable this video is not going to be about you know Samsung Dex or you know
that desktop environment like whether how usable it is although I have heard
that it's made some major improvements recently like you got window snapping
you know it's getting better and better but uh this video is not about that it's
just gonna be I'm gonna try to make it just about the the hardware itself even
though I am very I want to talk a long time about all of it I should have done
this a bit earlier you know the fact that it's a bit stiff while opening means that it can be stiff at multiple
different angles which is pretty nice because you know as I said you don't
have to use this as like an actual laptop replacement or you know a a phone
dock thing you can use it just as a monitor so like you could bring a
console around and like prop this up and now you're playing video games on your
little thing and that's cool too the other thing I did not mention is that I
think these bezels are I think it's a little thicker on the top and the bottom
than I remember seeing on the previous next talk Dutch Dutch next doc touch
back in 2020 so I don't know whether they I mean it's kind of disappointing
to see a big bezel like that on the bottom here but you know again what do
you be asking for all right now we're back to using the touchpad the biggest
weakness and in Wireless mode you know
as you would expect there's a little bit of latency it's hard for me to tell
right now whether I'd be able to get used to this but you know I can try
clicking around in things and see what happens see okay
does it have does it have tap to click it does if you like the idea of using
your phone as a computer this is definitely an option based on the stuff
that I've seen so far I mean they have the I think they have window snapping
here if I yeah drink bring it over there and there's no running apps can I start
another one right away let's open
Firefox oh okay oh see here oh did you see that you guys
didn't because you can't see but I went to I was trying to click that X
and there was like a ghost I guess I did
a ghost touch on the touchpad and it jumped all the way down to the bottom
I'm coming into this as somebody who actually is kind of interested in the
idea of using like a phone as a PC and the touchpad remains in every model that
I've tested it Remains the thing that turns me off the most I'm like this
isn't ready not because of the software or other elements of the hardware it's
literally just the touchpad it might be kind of basically the same model of
touchpad as it was in the previous ones which is a it's definitely disappointing
and the thing about having Hardware problems with a product like this is
that you know oh whoops I turned it off what are you doing next dog
so I accidentally hit the power button and then that means it breaks the whole
connection I don't know whether that's the thing so the point I was just going
to make is that if there's an issue with the hardware they can't fix it with like
a firmware update or a software update because there's no there's no there's
nothing in here except the keyboard and the touchpad and the and the Monitor and
there's no there's no processor anything there's nothing to push an update to on
the one hand that's an advantage because you know according to nextdoc it's like
you don't have to worry about driver updates you have to worry about glitchy
stuff and uh you know trying to fix it but the the con is the same thing it's
like there's no driver updates so ways rant over oh okay all right well
well that's a plus at least you know I I started decks up again and it
automatically was right it was still connected via Bluetooth so that's that's
something but still so touchpad
experience usable but on the border so
what happens if I put okay that brings up the apps kind of like Chrome OS
Firefox okay oh see right there I'm trying to click on stuff I might have to
rescind my rating as of this trackpad as
usable so we tried to enable a refresh rate in the developer options
understandably uh the phone you know isn't quite ready to I guess Android
maybe correct me if I'm wrong in the comments Android isn't ready to show you
the refresh rate of an external display or maybe it can but I'm not an Android
developer I don't know how it says 60 over here but it won't tell me what this
is based on the information we can see online this is a 30 Hertz display which
is definitely you know it's okay it's not so great in a world
in which we're used to seeing UH 60 FPS
laptop displays at least 30 Hertz 1080p
display is a little lackluster but you
know what are you gonna do okay all right that Saga is done
okay full screen but then you actually have to full screen the
because in decks what
wow because in decks you have your like each
one each of your Windows is like it's acting as if it's an Android device with
the screen that size so I full screened it within the window but now I have to
full screen the actual window itself that's a little annoying
you know honestly so great
honestly they're not great but they're actually better than I thought they
would be I think they are improved over the previous next doc uh model you know
it's not the worst speakers I've ever heard in a laptop
they're not good speakers it's a good thing there's a touch screen because I'm
getting frustrated with the touchpad and using the touchscreen more often than I
would like for sure okay we're at uh 4K quality on a 1080p display here I mean
I like the colors the colors look you know pretty vivid see now the other thing is
that we're going Wireless here this is on a Wi-Fi connection and so like I saw
a little bit of stuttering there just like a tiny bit but it seems to have
recovered so you know there is that potential when you're when you're streaming wireless
video that you're gonna get some artifacts like that but overall I'm
pretty impressed like this looks great I forgot that it was Wireless
that's enough crabs there's a 44 watt hour battery in the nextdoc wireless
which is actually less than the one that
was in the next doc touch although I can kind of understand that because this
thing is as far as I can tell quite a bit thinner than the other one was it's
not too heavy either which is understandable you know for the reasons that I've said uh no computer etc etc
now since the last video I did on the next doc there's actually been a fairly
interesting development the rise of these gaming handhelds based on
both Windows and Linux Steam OS powerful
handheld computers that you can use as
computers in addition to like you know gaming handhelds I won this Aya Neo at
the Christmas party so I've got this Windows handheld it's still running
Windows 10. I'll probably have to connect via Bluetooth to the keyboard
the same way probably connecting to your device come on or
unless that just maybe just timed out connected duplicate oh whoa whoa we got
some artifacting here all right some protocol is confused
it's not breaking I think
nice okay so hear me out here you don't
want to get a laptop but you do want to get one of these handheld devices that
are so so so popular and all of these gaming devices they're small they're
portable they have really powerful processors in them if you have a steam
deck which has a desktop mode right
I haven't used it but I've heard that it exists or you have one of these Windows
powered gaming handhelds look at that you got did you
now you have you have both but I hear some of you saying Riley this thing is
well the wireless version is 349 and the
non-wireless version is 299 you can get Chromebooks for that price and
Chromebooks are a much better value for your money are they though because if
you've been paying attention you might have noticed recent news the fact that
Chromebooks in education markets have just kind of broke after a few years
because they break all the time uh
because they're cheap is the hardware in this thing that much better
if you've been watching this video you might be able to tell that okay no it's
not that much better still want to hold
a hold future okay listen this product doesn't make sense for a lot of people
most people shouldn't buy this but I think that the improvements that
I've seen have been just enough to keep my faith in the
i in the idea that one day we could potentially have a situation where this
is our phone and our laptop and our
regular computer and we just kind of have docs that we just like use when we
have to I know that I'm foolish I know it's just
a dream but I believe next doc
fix your freaking trackpad please and 60 hertz on display and then we can talk
more next time hey thanks for watching this video guys if you want to watch
something else uh you could watch the previous review I did on this on the
next stock touch back in 2020 it's a little old but that's the last time
anyone in the world I think thought about this idea so