I just got my 85$ dock. For that little money there's not much to complain about. For any other newbies, things I've found:
The first startup was scary. Seemed like it was endlessly rebooting. Then I set the screentimeout to. 30 min and it seemed to have stopped that. Maybe it was just initial booting pains.
Surprised there are not more webtop native apps. But, I didn't do any research, just bought it based on the sale price. I guess since you can blow the native apps up to full screen, that might not be that big a deal. Using the tapatalk app right now.
The keyboard isn't the best , but I wouldn't be typing all this on the screen keyboard. So, it's good enough.
The touchpad not scrolling is kind of weird, but I'm making a lot of use of the keyboard arrow keys. Maybe I'll get a mouse too. Other keyboard tips include the 'Esc' key functions as the back button in Mobile View and the Ctrl key functions as the Menu button. Also, the left Alt+left arrow work as the Back button in Firefox, just like on a PC (though I don't know why the right-Alt key doesn't seem to work the same way.)
Firefox seems pretty unstable with youtube videos, especially in full screen.
I keep hitting the low memory warning but it did make me look at all the apps that were consuming ram and uninstall a few that I don't need anymore.
Compared to the bionic screen, the surface of the laptop picks up finger prints like crazy.
The phone battery seems like it will last forever, since it's own screen isn't in use, but I guess I'm not checking the lapdock's battery-- which is charging it. The little button for checking the battery doesn't really seem to do anything. Oh, checking the directions, the indicators are right next to the button, but very faint. 2 out of 5 right now, time to plug in before long.
It's easy to turn the touchpad off to keep from accidentally hitting it while typing.
The phone offers to go into productivity dock mode when the lapdock screen is closed. That's a pretty good display there. I'm guessing when it goes in the bedside dock though, it might have knocked out my bedside settings, I'll have to check. Turns out it is smart enough to know the difference between the docks and use the appropriate docked program.
I'm dissapointed it doesn't use the same charger as the phone, though I guess that can be expected. I probably won't want to get another ps so I can have one at work and one at home.
Tasker app needs an update that allows it to differentiate being in the basic dock vs being in the lapdock. I'd like different settings in each... but I'm not using Tasker much these days.
I can say, email, tapatalk -- things where I type, are going to be much more heavily used... rather than waiting to hit the desktop to use them.
More thoughts as I hit them.
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk
The first startup was scary. Seemed like it was endlessly rebooting. Then I set the screentimeout to. 30 min and it seemed to have stopped that. Maybe it was just initial booting pains.
Surprised there are not more webtop native apps. But, I didn't do any research, just bought it based on the sale price. I guess since you can blow the native apps up to full screen, that might not be that big a deal. Using the tapatalk app right now.
The keyboard isn't the best , but I wouldn't be typing all this on the screen keyboard. So, it's good enough.
The touchpad not scrolling is kind of weird, but I'm making a lot of use of the keyboard arrow keys. Maybe I'll get a mouse too. Other keyboard tips include the 'Esc' key functions as the back button in Mobile View and the Ctrl key functions as the Menu button. Also, the left Alt+left arrow work as the Back button in Firefox, just like on a PC (though I don't know why the right-Alt key doesn't seem to work the same way.)
Firefox seems pretty unstable with youtube videos, especially in full screen.
I keep hitting the low memory warning but it did make me look at all the apps that were consuming ram and uninstall a few that I don't need anymore.
Compared to the bionic screen, the surface of the laptop picks up finger prints like crazy.
The phone battery seems like it will last forever, since it's own screen isn't in use, but I guess I'm not checking the lapdock's battery-- which is charging it. The little button for checking the battery doesn't really seem to do anything. Oh, checking the directions, the indicators are right next to the button, but very faint. 2 out of 5 right now, time to plug in before long.
It's easy to turn the touchpad off to keep from accidentally hitting it while typing.
The phone offers to go into productivity dock mode when the lapdock screen is closed. That's a pretty good display there. I'm guessing when it goes in the bedside dock though, it might have knocked out my bedside settings, I'll have to check. Turns out it is smart enough to know the difference between the docks and use the appropriate docked program.
I'm dissapointed it doesn't use the same charger as the phone, though I guess that can be expected. I probably won't want to get another ps so I can have one at work and one at home.
Tasker app needs an update that allows it to differentiate being in the basic dock vs being in the lapdock. I'd like different settings in each... but I'm not using Tasker much these days.
I can say, email, tapatalk -- things where I type, are going to be much more heavily used... rather than waiting to hit the desktop to use them.
More thoughts as I hit them.
Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk
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