Gadgetory

it's time at the verge and I'm here at CES with razors new project Linda prototype every year at CES razor always brings a new and interesting prototype to kind of show off some ideas for the future of computing this year's this project Linda which is a laptop dock for the razor phone basically take a razor phone you put it in the center laptop over here you hit this docking button a USBC connector extends into the phone and it brings it up on the laptop as a full laptop experience CF apps which are running in full desktop or tablet mode here's the verge you can still their hardware keys to access things like Google assistant and hardware keys to access core Android functions like the back button in the app switcher you can also pop up games or productivity software like Lightroom which runs in this tablet mode but this is obviously much more than usable work environment to get things done than necessarily trying to do it on a phone razor is eventually hoping to be able to develop this to the point where you can actually run different content on the two screens so you can have for example Lightroom open and have a palette picker on here you can plug in a mouse on the side but the idea is really to extend the capabilities of what your phone can do into more of a laptop setting instead of just marrying the phone the project of the prototype actually also charges it while it's plugged in the idea being that when you're using it on the laptop when you take it out your phone will have more charge than when you started the project when the prototype also has roughly 200 gigabytes of extra space so you can store more stuff for twice you have a USB C port and a headphone jack on one side a full-sized USB type 8 port in the other size you can plug in any basically any peripheral as supported by an Android phone so flash drives mice keyboards etc and there's a headphone jack which is always nice there's no speakers on the device because it takes advantage of the front-facing speakers and the razor phone itself which is a clever repurposing and instead of using the camera though there's a webcam and mic built into the top so that people aren't looking up your nose while you're having a Skype conversation if some clear whether or not razor will actually be bringing this to market razor has done a lot of prototypes at CES some of them make it to market some of them don't some of them end up informing other products that do make it to market so it's still development and there's no idea of knowing whether or not we'll actually see it make the final cut but for now it's really interesting prototype to extend your phone especially as phones become more powerful to the inside is a soft touch coatings that doesn't damage the phone and you can kind of see how it works really really cool then really fun to play with