What looks like a laptop but ain’t a laptop? Chinese vendor releases innovative phone docking station that gets its inspiration from long lost Asus Transformer project

What looks like a laptop but ain’t a laptop? Chinese vendor releases innovative phone docking station that gets its inspiration from long lost Asus Transformer project

The idea of a laptop powered by a smartphone isn’t new. The Asus Padfone, part of Asus’s Transformer project, launched in 2012 and allowed users to plug a phone into a tablet and connect it to a keyboard base station. In 2017, Mirabook released a laptop powered by your smartphone, and in 2021, the Nexdock 360 arrived, which took things further but only worked with phones that offered a ‘wired display’ through USB-C.

I was reminded of these past projects, and more, when I saw the UDock X 15.6 Pro Wireless Lapdock from UPERFECT. It’s designed primarily to work with Samsung DeX, but it can be used with other phones and is currently priced at $409.99, a significant saving from the usual $629.99 asking price.

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