Tired of keeping your data and apps synchronized across your phone and your PC? Livi Design is raising funds to build a device that lets you use your phone as a PC. It’s called Casetop, and the idea is that you’d dock your phone into a laptop shell to give it a full-sized keyboard and […]
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RIP Motorola Lapdock (2011 – 2012)
Motorola’s Lapdock looks like a small notebook computer, but it’s really a docking station that lets you use certain Motorola smartphones like laptops. Just dock your phone into a slot behind the screen and you can surf the web using an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, a full-sized keyboard, and a light-weight Linux […]
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Motorola Lapdock 100 turns (a few) phones into laptops
Motorola has introduced a new laptop-style docking station that lets you use your phone as if it were a notebook computer. The Lapdock 100 looks like a thin and light laptop, but it doesn’t work as a standalone device — there’s no operating system or processor to speak of. Instead, you connect a supported Android […]
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Motorola Droid Bionic laptop dock doubles the cost of an expensive smartphone
When Motorola launched the Atrix 4G smartphone this year it was the first phone from the company to work with an optional laptop docking station that allows you to use some of the phone’s functions with an 11.6 inch display and a full-sized keyboard. But Motorola said the Atrix 4G wouldn’t be the only phone […]
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KT Spider docks turn smartphone into tablet, notebook, gaming console
Korea’s KT isn’t the first company to envision a smartphone that can transform into a notebook or tablet with the addition of a docking station. The Motorola Atrix 4G already has a laptop dock, and the upcoming Asus Padfone will be able to turn into a tablet. But this week KT is showing off a […]
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Motorola Atrix 4G laptop dock price drop coming… still too expensive
The Motorola Atrix 4G was one of the most exciting products I saw at CES in January. That’s not just because it was one of the first dual core phones with an NVIDIA Tegra processor, but also because of the optional docking station that lets you use the Android smartphone like a laptop computer, complete […]
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Motorola says the WebTop laptop dock isn’t just for the Atrix 4G, more on the way
The Motorola Atrix 4G is one of the most intriguing smartphones to hit the street this year. That’s partially because of its super-speedy 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and 4G connectivity. But it’s also because Motorola offers several docking stations which effectively transform the phone into a laptop computer or a home theater system. […]