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It has been possible, in different forms for 7 years now...

2015 Microsoft Continuum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Display_Dock

2017 Samsung DeX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_DeX

2011 Motorola Atrix https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/03/motorola-atrix-the-u...

To be fair, I owned the Atrix (or I should say four of them) and it’s build quality was absolute garbage. The fingerprint sensor on the back, when touched, would cause the touchscreen on the front of the phone to glitch out. I had exchanged several of them and all had this issue. Oh and after a very short bit Motorola said they won’t support any more upgrades to it with new Android versions and you couldn’t install anything open source on it either as the bootloader was locked. This phone is why I’ve been using iPhones since.

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