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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Turn a Raspberry Pi into laptop with a $70 Motorola Lapdock
The Raspberry Pi is a tiny, low power computer which sells for just $35. If you want to use the little guy you’ll need to add a keyboard, mouse, and display — which drives up the cost. Or you can just pick up a cheap Motorola Lapdock. Motorola’s Lapdock is designed to be a laptop […]
Motorola Webtop 3.0 to turn Android phones into Android laptops?
Motorola’s Webtop platform lets you connect supported smartphones into a docking station that looks like a laptop. This lets you use your phone with a keyboard and a large display. But since Motorola introduce the platform in 2011, the Webtop software has had a split personality. When holding the phone in your hands, it runs […]
Deals of the Day (XOOM for $320, Motorola Atrix 4G Lapdock for $50)
The Motorola Atrix 4G is a smartphone that turned a lot of heads earlier this year thanks to the optional Lapdock accessory which lets you use the phone like a laptop. Motorola showed off the system at CES in January, demonstrating how you can use the Atrix as a normal, Android-powered phone, or connect to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Motorola Atrix 4G Webtop dock dissected
Yesterday we learned that the $499 Webtop docking station that lets you use a Motorola Atrix 4G smartphone isn’t the only way to use the phone as the brains of a PC. You can also hack the software so that you can plug any external display into the HDMI port and trigger the Webtop software. […]
Motorola Atrix 4G hack turns the phone into a desktop PC… no dock required
The Motorola Atrix 4G is an Android smartphone with a dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and a few tricks up its sleeve. Connect a media docking station and you can access the phone’s functions on a big screen TV or pump out HD video to your TV while controlling playback with a remote. Connect […]
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. […]
Motorola Atrix 4G previews starting to roll in
The Motorola Atrix 4G is an Android smartphone with a dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and a whole slew of accessories that transform the phone into the brains of a notebook computer or a home theater system, the company has started to send out demo units, and the folks at Engadget, MobileCrunch, GigaOm, and […]