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Can This Phone Replace Your PC?

2016-10-08
I'm getting Dumber as this unboxing goes further on hey guys Austin and this is a phone or is it a computer or I see both so this is the HP Elite x3 if you guys saw my cool phones of 2016 video I did this is one of the phones I was really excited to check out however it is taking a long time to actually go on sale maybe the biggest phone box of all time actually why is this so big so this is a Windows 10 phone however instead of just being an ordinary Windows Phone so first of all we have the actual HP elite extra itself and as you can see this is a very big phone they also have the dock which is really heavy what's so this is a USBC dock so what you do is you drop your phone on this guy so round back we have USB type-c a couple of USB 3 ports a full-size DisplayPort and Ethernet the idea is is that this is a phone that you take around all day of course it does all the normal phone things when you get home you drop it on the dock and it essentially replaces your computer so something interesting is in addition to this dock there's also an option that is essentially turns this phone into a laptop they're actually doing some really cool stuff here which is interesting given that Windows Phone is maybe not the most popular that's ever been so fair warning on this guy it does not come cheap although it does come with some very stylish earbuds now continuing on because I've got imagine to sit yeah as a couple things left a pile of paperwork on the dock which apparently they gave me two of everything in case I was unsure of how to use a dock what else is in here so we have a dock for the dock oh why there's these are the exact same except one has a larger cut out how dare you um there's another one wait but this was the same oh wait wait says on the inside it isn't inside so this is for the phone this is for the phone with a case and this is for the phone with a flip cover case I totally didn't need to read the instructions to find that out and we also have a mysterious black box here I swear if this is going to be another adapter for the stupid dog it's another doctor now it's time for the real test does this crazy doc actually work so right now I have a plugged in so it's powering the phone however I want to actually see what we can do here so first of all we have a keyboard now plug this right into the back of it I also have a mouse actually I'm curious can I use keyboard and mouse without anything else oh I have a cursor all right guy that's kind of cool the scroll wheel works edge this is the world's weirdest desktop ever so everything's plugged into the dock now if I drop the phone on they see a welcome screen I don't know do I hello all right so now that I'm Alyce is on the display okay so now if I want the phone is a touch pad so even though this is a Windows 10 device it does not actually run full Windows 10 it's still running the phone Edition so not all apps are going to work so we've got the full desktop version of YouTube can you actually watch a video like this yeah there we go you almost feels like I'm using like a Chromebook or something it's a little bit slower than like a proper computer but it works I mean scrolling is fairly smooth there's maybe a touch of latency but really I mean for normal sort of like web browsing it seems to be fine so much we can do here so even though this is not a full Windows 10 device you can still do some cool stuff hey guys this is Austin that totally works I can actually see something like word being a really solid use of this right so if you don't want to travel with a lot of extra gear and while the apps are not quite as well full-featured as I would like movie star basic stuff like web browsing and we can go through and alt tab and the idea of using one device to do everything in your life is really cool I see a lot of potential in something like this in a few years as things get more polished but for today it's not quite there don't judge me
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