[austinjp]

Interesting, I wouldn't mind an Android phone that can do similar, but I'm not looking for a clamshell. For anyone else who, like me, is naive about such things, the key search terms seem to be: DisplayPort alternate mode over USB-C. Support seems patchy.

[herbst]

I hate USB-C for laptop charging ports, to fragile for regular use. However I build a few things recently and I love the simplicity.

- External Touch Screen - only needs one cable, usbc, for picture, sound, touch, power! ... (DP mode you mentioned required)

- As power source. My caravan computer (Dell wyse 5070) uses usbc as power source with a cheap DC slot adapter. My laptop charges in usb-c from 60w or more.

- We have 2 Rolands (p-1, s-1) both can use their usbc cable for direct audio in AND out which just works on Linux.

- For the Roland's I can use my phone as sound DAW or source, or both. I can also attach the touch screen, ...

All using the same (cheap and available) cable. Which is amazing and took my whole life to get to.

[tomcam]

What is a Roland p-1? All I could find was this https://proav.roland.com/global/products/p-1/

[herbst]

P-6 is what I ment :)

[tomcam]

Ah, relief

[jakub_g]

FWIW, apparently Google shipped software support for DP Alt Mode for Pixel 8 and newer a few months ago.