Uperfect claims it can get a maximum of six hours of usage after three hours of charging. It charges at a max of 20W through USB-C. The Uperfect X14 Pro’s slim frame houses a 10,800mAh battery. It also lacks vents, because there is no processor, GPU, or RAM inside to produce any heat. Since it doesn’t have much in the way of computing boards in its internals, it can be made almost impossibly thin. Yeah, it’s a sleek and stealthy device, measuring at 323mm across, 218mm deep, and 15mm thick. The most you get are port labels, and that’s it. Its svelte housing is improved by the fact that there are no branding nor legal and industry compliance logos printed on its body. It’s got the workings of a premium laptop an all-aluminum build, all edges are finely chamfered, no pointed corners, and a pristine grippy finish. The hinges are strong enough to combat display wobble, and there’s barely any deck flex. Its 2.76lb weight feels sturdy in the hand, and you can instinctively feel there are no empty chambers inside. Starting with the outside, the Uperfect X14 Pro is solidly built. It extracts a desktop experience from your phone and presents it in a familiar, intuitive, and expanded laptop interface. Its the combination of two technologies that has existed for a long time now– portable touchscreen monitors, and a wireless keyboard and trackpad.īut the way they’re implemented is much more unique. If you think about it, there is technically nothing revolutionary about the hardware of the Uperfect X14 Pro. But with two big twists: it’s a fraction of the cost of a proper laptop, and it needs your phone to power it. Their X14 Pro Wireless Lapdock looks, feels, and works like a laptop. This is where Uperfect comes in, with a form factor that not only looks viable, but also straightforward enough to be understood even by the most tech-averse luddite. There is still much innovation required in this space to be fully mainstream. And more importantly, we as consumers just haven’t collectively decided on an acceptable and ergonomic solution to run our overpowered smartphones as mid-level laptops and desktops. First, there is a lack in the market at large for viable laptop or desktop form factor substitutes. Why the lack of lapdocks?īack to the topic at hand: 2023 smartphones are strong enough to be laptop substitutes, but they don’t see widespread use for a few reasons. So for this review, I will primarily be using the Samsung DeX environment for my usage experience with the Uperfect X14 Pro. This way, I can access my phone working interface at home. I’ve even extended my home setup to accommodate space for an extra monitor hooked up to the DeX pad. I’ve used both the Samsung DeX Station and DeX Pad extensively in the past. I work within Samsung DeX via a USB-C to HDMI cable hooked up to a monitor. As an incredibly busy person who relies on my phone for my daily tasks– there are days when I live off of my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra entirely. Long time comingīefore everything else, let me say that I’ve been asking for something like this from smartphone brands and third-party accessory developers for a long time now. With all of that happening, here comes Uperfect with a lapdock that promises to take advantage of all that untapped power. However, it still speaks a lot about the capacity and the potential of mobile devices to make the jump toward the big-screen leagues. It’s yet to receive an official release as of Android 13. Hell, even Google has been developing a native “Desktop Mode” since Android 10. Other major smartphone manufacturers have followed suit with similar software since then. It has been baked-in with its flagship phones since the Galaxy S8. Samsung, on the other hand, already has its DeX desktop interface software. Whether you’re aware of it or not, we have long passed the line where mobile devices have enough horsepower to be viable laptop or desktop replacements.Īpple’s “What’s a Computer?” campaign has shown that the iPad was way closer to a Macbook than ever before.
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