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Quoth · 03-18-2020, 05:01 PM

Also I've never ever found a decent BT keyboard for phone/tablet. They tend to sleep and lose the first letter or two typed. Or want paired.
Even cheap USB mini-keyboards are better.
My ancient Android Sony-Ericsson has HDMI out and USB2G, so as an experiment I added a hub, 17" HD screen, HDD, mouse and keyboard. All worked for a given concept of work.

Now no-one puts HDMI. My 10" tablet has the horrid Screencast Wireless that degrades the WiFi. Also works best with ANY USB keyboard, but correct layout can be a problem.
Also the old 7" tablet had a separate power jack. The current 6" phone, 7" tablet and 10" tablet can't at all be charged if in host mode. Only a very tiny number of tablets have a special non-standard USB that can take a Y cable for power and USB2Go host at the same time.

Real laptop. Non-Glare Matt screen.

03-18-2020, 05:01 PM	#12
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,284 Karma: 105299897 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Also I've never ever found a decent BT keyboard for phone/tablet. They tend to sleep and lose the first letter or two typed. Or want paired. Even cheap USB mini-keyboards are better. My ancient Android Sony-Ericsson has HDMI out and USB2G, so as an experiment I added a hub, 17" HD screen, HDD, mouse and keyboard. All worked for a given concept of work. Now no-one puts HDMI. My 10" tablet has the horrid Screencast Wireless that degrades the WiFi. Also works best with ANY USB keyboard, but correct layout can be a problem. Also the old 7" tablet had a separate power jack. The current 6" phone, 7" tablet and 10" tablet can't at all be charged if in host mode. Only a very tiny number of tablets have a special non-standard USB that can take a Y cable for power and USB2Go host at the same time. Real laptop. Non-Glare Matt screen.