Nex Computer’s new NexPhone is less a revival of Windows Phone than a deliberately compromised attempt to put a pocketable, dockable Windows PC into a smartphone form factor — a bold experiment that trades peak mobile performance and carrier integration for the convenience of carrying a Windows...
Nex Computer’s NexPhone has reintroduced a provocative idea to the mainstream: a single pocketable handset that’s engineered not just to run Android, but to act as a full desktop-class Linux workstation and — uniquely for a consumer phone in recent years — reboot into a native Windows 11 on ARM...
Fourteen years after the idea was first teased, Nex Computer’s NexPhone has moved from concept to preorder — a rugged, midrange Android handset that legally and technically promises three distinct operating environments in a single pocket device: a clean Android 16 daily phone, a GPU‑accelerated...
The NexPhone arrives as the most concrete — and commercially available — attempt in years to make the oft-repeated “phone that replaces your laptop” idea real: a rugged Android handset that ships with Android 16, offers a full Debian desktoptop that runs as an app under Android, and can reboot...
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...
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