nexphone

Fourteen years after Microsoft walked away from its cellphone ambitions, a small hardware outfit has shipped a phone that deliberately tries to be more than a handset — the NexPhone is a dock-first, mid‑range smartphone that runs a de‑Googled Android 16 as its primary environment, offers a...

NexPhone arrives as a provocative answer to an old promise: a single pocketable device that can act as an Android phone, a full Linux workstation, and — on demand — a Windows 11 desktop. Nex Computer, the maker of the NexDock laptop shells, is selling the idea as practical engineering rather...

The idea of carrying a single pocket device that can behave like a smartphone, a Linux workstation and a full Windows 11 PC just moved from thought experiment to preorder page: Nex Computer’s NexPhone claims to ship as an Android handset that runs a containerized Debian Linux desktop and can...

NexDock’s new NexPhone arrives as a bold, borderline-provocative attempt to make the long-promised “phone that becomes a PC” a practical, ship‑ready product — a rugged midrange handset that ships with Android, offers a containerized Debian Linux desktop, and can reboot into a native Windows 11...

Almost a decade after Microsoft exited the smartphone market, a small hardware company has reignited the long-running “phone-as-PC” dream with a commercial product that claims to run Android, Linux and a native Windows 11 desktop from the same pocket device. Background / Overview Nex Computer —...

Nex Computer’s new NexPhone promises a single pocketable device that can act as an Android smartphone, a Debian Linux workstation and — most unusually — reboot into a full Windows 11 desktop when docked to an external monitor, a bold pitch backed by specific hardware and a clear shipping...

Fourteen years after the original concept first surfaced, a small hardware outfit has released a phone that tries to do something most mainstream vendors have avoided: ship a pocketable Android smartphone that can also boot a full WindWindows 11 desktop and run a real Linux desktop — all from...

Nex Computer’s NexPhone promises to be the kind of gadget that makes tech enthusiasts grin: a midrange smartphone that’s explicitly engineered to become a full PC — running Android and Linux with desktop modes and, most unusually, able to boot into Windows 11 so it can act as a proper Windows PC...