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It's amazing what you can do with magnets and cardboard - how about hacking your own DROID dock.
This is what Engadget's Paul Miller has done, after learning that Motorola was using magnets in its DROID car and "multimedia station" docks (or DEXT for those of us in Europe).
This is what Engadget's Paul Miller has done, after learning that Motorola was using magnets in its DROID car and "multimedia station" docks (or DEXT for those of us in Europe).
"Based on the positioning of a couple of magnets, the phone auto-loads the pertinent application," he writes. "The multimedia station at least offers a charging plug, but the car dock is all stand."He soon worked out where to place the magnets for control, to spoof the phone into believing it was docked. In "car mode", for example, the navigation options are displayed. Check out the video over on Engadget. Points for ingenuity (if only for ingenuity, not functionality).
Comments (2)
Boring. And old news.
Either way, you can easily access the car dock screen by a pre-installed app and there's a multimedia dock app that's free to download. A lot easier than hacking a "dock" from cardboard and magnets.
Posted by Chris | November 21, 2009 10:37 AM
Posted on November 21, 2009 10:37
The point, I feel, Chris, is not that it is done well but that it can be done at all...
It is not meant to be a serious competitor to the official docking product, after all!
Posted by Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com | November 23, 2009 4:21 PM
Posted on November 23, 2009 16:21