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A matte black Microsoft logo sits at the top of the Microsoft Display Dock, reminding you who created the device and why its useful. It’s a tiny, nearly square object, measuring 2.52 inches from left edge to right. That’s the best way to describe the Microsoft Display Dock. Microsoft Display Dock Review: Design & InternalsĪn exquisitely designed metal box. It wasn’t until I tried it in my own home instead of a reviewer’s workshop that I fully appreciated how the Microsoft Display Dock could have a profound effect on the smartphone space. Early on, I thought this idea was pretty ridiculous. There’s support for keyboards, mice and other USB accessories.

#Microsoft display dock issue android#

As iPhones, Android devices and Windows phones get processor upgrades, there’s very little that sets them apart that Microsoft can point to as an easy advantage.Ĭonnect a Microsoft Lumia 950 or any device with a USB Type-C port into the Microsoft Display Dock and you get a more PC-like experience.

The company hopes to change the way people see phones themselves.

#Microsoft display dock issue windows 10#

It’s an accessory for Windows Phones running Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system for mobile devices. To be clear, the Microsoft Display Dock isn’t designed to fix Microsoft’s mobile woes on its own. The tiny Microsoft Display Dock is designed to help with Windows Phone’s struggle. Around the world its in better shape, but still not the hit smartphone operating system that Microsoft hoped for in 2010 when it unveiled Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone is solidly in third place in mature markets. Five years after it first tried to take on Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android with a modern mobile operating system of its own, the company has relatively little to show for its efforts.

#Microsoft display dock issue portable#

If nothing else just throw it in your laptop bag – it’s still cool to use as an extremely portable dock.Microsoft’s smartphone efforts are stuck in a rut.

So don’t throw away your little old friend just yet, give him a try with your Windows 10 laptop – he might be your desktop friend once again. Windows 10 detects the dock correctly and provides you with the same output to a second 1920×1080 monitor as you’d expect (extend/duplicate), along with 3 extra USB ports. I was rummaging around a box of cables the other day and came across this old Microsoft dock and thought – this still looks like a pretty cool piece of tech, I wonder if this thing still has any uses? I gave it power, hooked it up to an HDMI monitor, grabbed a Dell Latitude 7280 with a USB-C connector and connected up the dock – lo and behold, it works!Īll of the technical specs for the Microsoft Display Dock say it’s compatible only with certain Lumia devices, but it seems it’s quite happy to function as a dock/port-replicator for modern Windows 10 devices too. My desk setup nowadays is a Lenovo P50 laptop/workstation connected to a couple of 24″ QHD Dell monitors via a Dell Universal Display Dock, it works well. Cool tech! Sadly, as Microsoft failed to make an impact in the phone market we all pretty much moved to Android or iOS – which consigned the phone and the dock to storage.

#Microsoft display dock issue full#

It was supplied with a Microsoft Display Dock (HD-500), which you could hook up to the Lumia Phone, a Wireless Keyboard and Mouse and start using it as a mini Win10 desktop on a full screen monitor. I went through the phase of owning a Microsoft/Lumia 950 phone, it wasn’t a bad phone at all but it was let down with application support.