It exists. It's called a computer and it can read the files you store on your phone while using a much more powerful processor and a more complete OS.

This. If the "dock" is using a better processor for computing then it's not just a dock, it's its own computer.

* how compatible are all the different file-formats? * have you worked out how to bypass the DRM inherent in many of these phones? * does the device even have a means to transfer the data! ipads force you to use "cloud" services (other people's computers) for goodness sake!

:)

lots of people also answered this but what you're referring to is called a "Lapdock". the first ones that brought this to the mainstream were the "Motorola Atrix Lapdock". google "Atrix Lapdock Hack" for some fascinating reading - if you're going to replicate it make damn sure you track down a Version 1 because version 2 has DRM in it.

or you could look up the "NexDock" or the "Superbook". ooor..... you could get one of the EOMA68 15.6in Laptop Housings plus a "Passthrough" Card and use that... :) https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/pas...

This feels like what windows continuum is (was?) trying to do. Maybe if Microsoft and Intel hadn't both given up on phones, we could have a continuum phone with an x86 processor, so the full windows library while docked.

> Maybe if Microsoft and Intel hadn't both given up on phones

maybe there's a backlash against the wintel cartel that leads people to no longer trust them. maybe the DRM-locking that goes onto the microsoft phones and intel-based phones respectively is enough that people are absolutely sick of them.