High-end Samsung phones do this with Dex, though I have only used it once. The app limitations make it nearly useless and. novelty. If anyone can pull it off it would be Apple with some sort of OSX VM.
Re:Travelling with 24” Monitors
by diffeomorphism on Monday March 02, 2020 @06:13AM
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See also the motorola atrix, samsung dex, maruOS, ubuntu phone, ... .
Or the other way around with using tablets, phones, chromebooks etc. as thin clients, so whatever you connect to the monitor does not really matter.
I feel like we got so close to that with Continuum on Windows Phone, but it was far enough away that it never took off. Drop your phone into a USB-C dock, and you'd get 1080p/1200p video out with a Windows 10-esque UI (desktop, Start menu), keyboard/mouse support, plus an additional USB-A. In practice though, the limitations (range of available apps for WP was mediocre, you couldn't run apps side-by-side on the monitor, some apps didn't implement a full screen UI) made it frustrating.