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Motorola Lapdock 500 clears the FCC

Categories: Accessories, Android, FCC, Motorola
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, November 11th, 2011 at 3:43 AM
Motorola Lapdock 500 clears the FCC

Presuming you like Motorola’s original Lapdock 100, you may love its bigger brother – Lapdock 500, which comes with a 14-inch screen and which has just cleared the FCC process, making it ready to be sold on the U.S. soil. Not sure that really makes you more mobile, but hey – if you want a big-screen experience that gets its power from a smartphone, something’s gotta give.

Aside from the mentioned 14-inch screen, this particular Lapdock also sports ethernet port, VGA out, front-facing camera, full 6-row keyboard, 3.5mm headset hack and an SD card slot like a full-blown laptop. The problem, however, is that all that additional screen estate makes the Lapdock 500 pretty heavy. In that sense, the accessory that should make you more mobile doesn’t deliver on the most important front. So… I still prefer the 10-inch Lapdock 100. What do you say?

[Via: Engadget]

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  • Ronald Carter Jr.

    I recently purchased the Lapdock 100 and part of the reason was for netbook like functionality using my Sprint unlimited plan for essentially free 3g/4g data. So portability and lack of a tethering fee was my major push towards this technology. That being said the 100 model is VERY light and has more than exceeded my expectations. The main reason I would consider picking up a 500 too is for the webcam but as you said it introduces the problem of finding room for it. I currently can fit my Xoom, my Lapdock 100 and a huge HDMI cable in a small Swissgear backpack I own without any problems. Same could not be said for the 500 as it will be larger and thus would require a bigger bag.

    Also the price would play into whether I would consider the 500 or just wait and watch for Motorola to offer newer docks in the future. Though to be honest I am strongly hoping Motorola releases a Webtop phone in the upcoming year which has a Tegra 3 processor, I would buy it outright if they did as it would make the Lapdocks even better!