I take advantage of my cellphone on a regular basis, and I do not simply imply I am glued to my cellphone. With the assistance of some equipment, my cellphone has changed nearly all of my very own private devices.

My cellphone is my desktop and my laptop computer. It is a pill and an eReder. It is a handheld gaming console and a digital AR residence theater. Listed here are the merchandise which have made it occur.

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An Upright Telephone Docking Station

Any USB-C hub will do, however if you happen to’re actually seeking to decide to a phone-centric digital life, it is price getting a dock that will not go away your cellphone and truffles mendacity haphazardly atop your desk. I take advantage of an upright cellphone dock as a substitute (particularly this Cable Matters 5-in-1 docking station on Amazon). Like an upright wi-fi charging pad, this dock additionally retains my cellphone display screen seen and accessible.

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A Low cost Telephone Stand

A cellphone stand is a foundational funding that turns out to be useful many times. It is also the most cost effective. A stand retains your cellphone upright for watching video, studying books, and looking the net. You’ll be able to prop your cellphone up whereas enjoying video games. It additionally elevates, fairly actually, the expertise of utilizing a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

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Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse

Digital keyboards have come a good distance, and I will not deny that I’ve written complete articles by swiping (I do not know if swiping is faster than typing, nevertheless it’s actually simpler on my thumbs). Nonetheless, for sustained use, there is not any changing the flexibility of a Bluetooth keyboard. Some keyboards even fold to take up much less area in your bag.

Whereas your cellphone’s display screen may also double as a touchpad, you are possible going to need a mouse as nicely. Android pairs with nearly any mannequin of both and works with them in addition to a PC does, aside from the dearth of configuration instruments which are typically launched solely for PCs.

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A Desktop or Moveable Monitor

If you are going to use your cellphone as a alternative for a desktop PC, you are going to want a desktop monitor. Any will do, so long as your cellphone dock has the mandatory ports. Each cellphone I’ve used completely flies on a 1080p show. At 4K, I observed the Galaxy Z Fold 5 began to battle a tad. Whereas the Galaxy Z Fold 6 has a better time, it nonetheless often begins to overheat and shut apps. For a greater expertise, stick with a QHD resolution, or check out a cellphone just like the Galaxy S25 Ultra with a more powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite chip.

I even have a drawer with a few moveable shows. My two 16.1-inch 1080p HONGO portable monitors price me solely $60 every, and I used to go away them in a number of rooms of the home: one in the lounge and one in my bed room. They’re nice wherever you can use a small TV, and so they may also operate as your main monitor if you happen to’re okay with the cords.

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Wi-fi Lapdock

A lapdock is a conveyable monitor with a keyboard and touchpad hooked up. It additionally comes with its personal inside battery and built-in audio system. In different phrases, it is a laptop computer with none of its personal internals. The computing is all achieved by one other gadget, usually a cellphone.

A wi-fi lapdock removes the necessity for a bodily cable connecting the 2 units. I am typing these phrases on a wi-fi lapdock from UPERFECT (an older mannequin nearly an identical to the UPERFECT UDock X 13.3), and except you occur to acknowledge Samsung DeX, there’s little purpose to suspect this is not only a common 13-inch laptop computer. The touchpad is trash although, so ensure you have a mouse.

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AR Glasses

AR glasses are one of many extra novel methods to utilize a cellphone. I’ve a pair of XREAL Air 2 Pro glasses, which offer me with an enormous digital 1080p show that I can view wherever. It is a nice option to make watching a video really feel way more immersive, since you could have your personal non-public residence theater. The same is true for video games. I additionally generally use my AR glasses as a alternative for a desktop monitor.

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Bluetooth Controllers

Bluetooth controllers can take the frustration out of cellular gaming. They permit you to get pleasure from cross-platform ports with the identical controls you’d use at a console or on a PC. In case your cellphone is docked to a TV or monitor, it turns into troublesome generally to inform the distinction. That is very true if you happen to’re utilizing a cloud gaming service like NVIDIA GeForce NOW.

I personal a number of sorts of controllers. I nonetheless view the 8BitDo Pro 2 as the perfect controller. It is what I attain for if I am gaming by way of AR glasses or an exterior monitor. If I am gaming immediately on the cellphone, I seize my GameSir G8+ for extra of a handheld gaming expertise.

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USB-C Flash Drive

You by no means know while you may want a flash drive. I discover that regardless of all of the methods to switch information wirelessly, together with this half-century-old trick, a easy USB-C flash drive is commonly the quickest possibility. They’re additionally a sound option to again up information out of your cellphone with out paying for cloud storage.

I am notably keen on the SanDisk Luxe flash drives. They feel and appear superb (once they aren’t scorching scorching from transferring information), so I’ve purchased a pair in several sizes.

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If this looks like loads of stuff, this is the factor—most of it can simply final for years and years. When you’re all arrange, you solely should improve your cellphone each few years for every thing else to really feel new once more. That is less expensive than sustaining a strong desktop, laptop computer, cellphone, and gaming handheld all individually. Plus, with Google working on baking desktop mode directly into Android, the way forward for convergent units is wanting shiny.