Lapdock vs. netbook - keep in mind the lapdock is about the thickness of a tablet (super thin), so it's much thinner than a laptop/netbook for a ~12" screen. It's an interesting concept. I've played with mine for a while yesterday. You basically have a smaller phone screen and firefox full browser. I found it similar to browsing on a regular PC with my 4G connection and reasonable on 3G - way better than viewing std web pages on the phone's smaller screen. I used the USB port to copy over my pictures/music from my D1 droid's SD card using a card reader - very cool feature (which can be done on the HD dock too btw). I'm going to test out using a wireless mouse with the dock next. It would be nice if it gave you a 12" screen of the phone (like a tablet running 2.3), not the limited size (maybe it does this and I haven't done it correctly yet). Where I can see the lapdock as particularly useful is watching larger screen videos, full screen browsing, and web apps like google docs to better edit office files you've got on your phone, and typing emails as noted by others.
Having some additional webtop apps to do more than just the browser will be nice. The FF camera would have been nice for use with Skype. If you don't really need a laptop/netbook for traveling, this seems like a nice option for having a bigger screen & keybd.
I think a $150-200 price point would make it a LOT more attractive to the general population.
I'll add more if I learn anything new through use.
Good points!
I agree about the price, I got it for $199, I would have not paid $299.
You can have a 12" phone screen, in the lower left corner of the "phone" on the screen there is a square you click that gives you a full screen phone view, right next to the square is a "flip" arrow that changes view from portrait to landscape. In landscape mode, the phone view takes up the entire screen, it is actually huge, lol. To exit full screen just move the cursor to the top or the bottom of the screen, this took me a few minutes to figure out.
The development community has done a lot of work with the Webtop on the Atrix, I think that will expand exponentially with the Bionic.