**Testing the Crowy Note as a Desktop Operating System**

I recently had the opportunity to test the Crowy Note as a desktop operating system, and I was pleasantly surprised by its performance. The device comes with a trackpad that supports gestures such as two-finger swiping up and down, which worked seamlessly in this mode.

However, when trying to side swipe using the trackpad, I was not sure if it actually supported this gesture or not. It's possible that it only works on certain devices, but in my testing with a Samsung Dex device connected to the Crowy Note, two-finger swiping did work as expected. The desktop operating system worked well with the keyboard and trackpad, making it easy to navigate and use.

**Testing with Samsung Dex**

One of the main use cases for the Crowy Note is its ability to connect to a larger screen via Samsung Dex. This feature allows users to turn their phone into a desktop computer, complete with a keyboard and trackpad. I tested this feature by connecting my Galaxy S24 Ultra to the Crowy Note using a USB-C cable, and was pleased to find that it worked flawlessly.

However, when trying to use gestures such as side swiping on the screen, it did not work as expected. It's unclear whether Samsung Dex supports this gesture or not, but I'll be testing this further in future updates. Even without this feature, the Crowy Note still works well with the keyboard and trackpad, making it easy to navigate and use.

**Dual App Mode**

Another feature of the Crowy Note is its ability to run dual apps on the device. Using Samsung Dex, I was able to run one app on the phone's built-in screen, while another app ran on the external display. This feature works well, even with keyboard input, making it easy to multitask.

**Battery Life**

One of the most important features of any portable device is its battery life. The Crowy Note comes equipped with a 5000mAh battery, which should last all day with moderate use. In my testing, I was able to get around 4-5 hours of battery life before needing to recharge.

**Handheld Gaming PC**

Finally, I tested the Crowy Note as a handheld gaming PC using an Asus Rog Alix device. The device connects via USB-C and supports video out, making it easy to use on the device's built-in screen. One feature that impressed me was the ability to enable FreeSync over USB type-C, which prevents screen tearing when gaming at high frame rates.

The Crowy Note also has a handy battery indicator in the hotkey area, showing how much battery is left and whether the device is charging or not. Overall, I was pleased with my experience using the Crowy Note as a desktop operating system, handheld gaming PC, and mobile phone.

**Future Improvements**

While the Crowy Note works well in its current form, there are a few areas that could be improved upon. One of the most significant issues is battery life, which would benefit from a larger capacity or more efficient design. Additionally, a metal build would provide a more premium feel and better durability.

Overall, however, I was impressed by the Crowy Note's performance and versatility as a portable device. With its support for desktop operating systems, handheld gaming PCs, and mobile phone use cases, it has the potential to be a valuable tool for users on-the-go.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the allnew crow view note and basically what we can do with this unit is turn any electronic that supports HDMI or USB type-c video out into a portable 14-in laptop like the Raspberry Pi other single board computers Android devices that support display over USB type-c like the Samsung Galaxy S line I've got the s24 ultra here and this is one of my main use case scenarios using Samsung decks with the p able laptop like this but another one would be plugging in something like the steam deck OLED or even the new Rog Alx and with this use case scenario I could see myself using this quite a bit in the last couple years whenever I travel I usually just bring a handheld gaming PC iPad and my s24 ultra so with the crow view note I can turn any of those devices into a laptop that way I've got a bigger screen keyboard and trackpad so when I need to get work done I can do it much easier on a device like this it's actually a lot lighter and thinner than I thought it would be it's got a 5,000 mAh battery built in but the first thing I noticed here is it is constructed of plastic I actually was under the impression that this was going to be an aluminum chassis and I think that's why I thought it was going to be much heavier than it is but it is built of plastic now first and foremost this was really designed with the Raspberry Pi 5 and the Nvidia jeton Nano so it does come with some daughter boards here to allow us to connect either one of those single board computers quite easily to this unit we can also use the built-in battery to power set single board computer and in this video I will be demonstrating the Raspberry Pi 5 and this is the daughter board for the pi 5 basically we're going to plug one end into the I/O on the Raspberry Pi 5 the other end goes into the side of the laptop itself that way we've got everything nice and neat overall not a bad design 14in 16x9 aspect ratio display full keyboard with all of the hot Keys we need so we can actually adjust the brightness it's got a built-in OSD battery monitor nice little trackpad here it's not glass covered again this is all constructed of plastic taking a look at the I/O over here on the left hand side we've got a full-size USB port mini HDMI and USB type-c it seems that this USB type-c port is for power delivery only but moving over to the right hand side we've got another USB type-c port and this will do video in it's got a 3.5 mm audio jack another full-size USB port and our power input this is actually a 3.5 mm interface and uh just works with the charger that's included first things first let's go ahead and get this Raspberry Pi 5 connected uh by the way I've got an argon cooler on this and it is overclocked the 3 GHz basically what we're going to do is grab the pi five daughterboard we're going to plug the pi in here so our USB type-c both hdmis line up so with this single daughterboard connected we've got our power input and video output from the pi5 covered but there's one more thing we need to plug in to get that USB connection so we're actually going to be taking up one of the USB 3 ports on the pi5 that way it'll send that signal back from the keyboard and trackpad and we can use it directly with any operating system on the pi if you've seen any of crow Pi's older Raspberry Pi laptops you know they were pretty bulky they were pretty thick because the Raspberry Pi sat internally I actually like this design a bit more because it's more Universal I mean we've got it right here on the side if you don't want to use a pie you don't have to you can always connect over mini HDMI or USB type-c so I've just turned the unit on and this will deliver 5 vol 5 amps from that USB type-c over on the side here that way we can truly power that Raspberry Pi 5 and again I do have this overclock the 3 GHz I got to say the display actually looks pretty good 1080p IPS with 100% srgb and some people might be worried about you know having a pie hanging off the side of a laptop this thing isn't going to go anywhere it's connected with that mini HDMI USB and USB type-c it's actually a pretty tight connection here and they did send along a Jetson Nano adapter so if you wanted to use something with a bit more power you definitely could all right so here we are Raspberry Pi OS uh up top here we do have a bunch of hot Keys our volume we've also got our brightness and there's a full OSD builtin and one thing I noticed like I mentioned was this actually supports free sync which I was pretty surprised about but we've got all of the basics here contrast saturation brightness you can set up cooler tones warmer tones it's really up to you you can kind of dial this in but I got to say I mean it's actually a pretty good looking IPS display we have here those built-in dual stereo speakers at 100% do sound a bit tinny so if I turn them down to around 80% not bad and it's definitely loud enough but just keep in mind I mean you know when this thing's pegged out you will hear a little bit of Tenny sound it's definitely because we've got that plastic chassis and it's kind of echoing inside but yeah with the Raspberry Pi connected you could definitely get some work done you could also have a lot of fun with this you could set up emulation station on this if you want to but you know I already had Raspberry Pi OS installed ready to go built-in keyboard works just fine and this is all connected over USB we don't have to use any kind of dongles you know have a Bluetooth connection for that trackpad and that keyboard in the past I have seen some of these portable laptops need to be connected over Bluetooth so with that physical connection no input latency we do have gestures with this track pad also and I did try to side swipe but I'm not sure if posos actually supports that or not so that up and down two finger swipe does work I'll test it out with uh Samsung Dex in just a second because I know for a fact that works but overall with the Raspberry Pi 5 connected pretty good experience with the desktop operating system the next thing I wanted to test out was one of my main use case scenarios for a device like this Samsung Dex I've got that Galaxy s24 Ultra and keep in mind anything from the Galaxy S8 on up does support Samsung Dax which means when you plug your device into an external display you can get that desktop operating system and this works really well with a keyboard and trackpad a bigger screen is a must and the Samsung Galaxy tabl line the tab sline does support decks you can actually use that on the tablet's built-in screen but even with those I usually connect it to a larger display and it looks like sideswiping isn't working here with Samsung Dex now I know for a fact that it does work in the Dex operating system but for some reason with the crowy note it's just not registering and of course when you're using Samsung Dex you can still use your phone like a phone we could actually run dual apps here run one on the phone's built-in screen and then one on this external crowy note not too bad here usually I lose you know my trackpad input when I'm using the keyboard at the same time with this it's actually working really well so yeah I could definitely see myself using something like this when I'm traveling you know video editing on your phone or photo editing on a larger screen just works out so much better and there are a lot of apps over on Google Play that really take advantage of the full screen experience and by the way we do have a battery indicator for the laptop itself because after all it's got that 5,000 mAh battery that's actually going to be used for the keyboard trackpad and the screen itself and since we've got our phone plugged in here we're also charging that battery so up in the hotkey area it'll just tell us how much battery we've got left and the final thing I wanted to test here was a handheld gaming PC connected to this unit I'm going to be using the Asus Rog Alix and with this we do have two USB type- C's up top one is USB 4 one is 3.2 but both support video out I'm just plugged into that 3.2 port and I'm really glad they added dual USBC on the Rog Alx that way while we're plugged into something like this we can plug another charger into the device to keep that battery up on the handheld itself trackpad and keyboard are working just fine with this Windows handheld and one thing I took a look at was just to make sure free sync was enabled over USB type-c and it works fine here as long as you've got an AMD system that supports free sync this is going to work with it over USB type-c or mini HDMI that way we're not going to get any kind of screen tearing when we go under that threshold really nice little feature to have on this laptop of course I had to show off a little bit of gaming with this thing and I've got it in mirror mode right now but you could set it up to only be displayed on the uh external display here with that crowy view or we could set it up as kind of an extended desktop but right now we're just in mirr mode it's just going to work as a secondary monitor overall I think it's a pretty nice little setup now there are a few things I would love to see changed down the road maybe with the next revision obviously we're going to need a bigger battery we've got a 5,000 mamp battery here it'll do 5 volts 5 amps out and we could charge our phone up we could run the pi for a little while but it's not going to last all day long if we've got a device plugged in like the pi that has to use that battery along with the LCD screen keyboard and trackpad another thing I'd love to see is just a metal version now of course they wanted to keep the cost down here constructed of plastic you know to have a more premium feel would be really awesome but either way it does work as intended we can connect a ton of different devices to this and like I mentioned As Long as That device supports HDMI out or video over USB type-c it's going to work with the crowy not but that's going to wrap it up for this one if you're interested in learning a little more about the crowy note I'll leave some links to their official website down below like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the allnew crow view note and basically what we can do with this unit is turn any electronic that supports HDMI or USB type-c video out into a portable 14-in laptop like the Raspberry Pi other single board computers Android devices that support display over USB type-c like the Samsung Galaxy S line I've got the s24 ultra here and this is one of my main use case scenarios using Samsung decks with the p able laptop like this but another one would be plugging in something like the steam deck OLED or even the new Rog Alx and with this use case scenario I could see myself using this quite a bit in the last couple years whenever I travel I usually just bring a handheld gaming PC iPad and my s24 ultra so with the crow view note I can turn any of those devices into a laptop that way I've got a bigger screen keyboard and trackpad so when I need to get work done I can do it much easier on a device like this it's actually a lot lighter and thinner than I thought it would be it's got a 5,000 mAh battery built in but the first thing I noticed here is it is constructed of plastic I actually was under the impression that this was going to be an aluminum chassis and I think that's why I thought it was going to be much heavier than it is but it is built of plastic now first and foremost this was really designed with the Raspberry Pi 5 and the Nvidia jeton Nano so it does come with some daughter boards here to allow us to connect either one of those single board computers quite easily to this unit we can also use the built-in battery to power set single board computer and in this video I will be demonstrating the Raspberry Pi 5 and this is the daughter board for the pi 5 basically we're going to plug one end into the I/O on the Raspberry Pi 5 the other end goes into the side of the laptop itself that way we've got everything nice and neat overall not a bad design 14in 16x9 aspect ratio display full keyboard with all of the hot Keys we need so we can actually adjust the brightness it's got a built-in OSD battery monitor nice little trackpad here it's not glass covered again this is all constructed of plastic taking a look at the I/O over here on the left hand side we've got a full-size USB port mini HDMI and USB type-c it seems that this USB type-c port is for power delivery only but moving over to the right hand side we've got another USB type-c port and this will do video in it's got a 3.5 mm audio jack another full-size USB port and our power input this is actually a 3.5 mm interface and uh just works with the charger that's included first things first let's go ahead and get this Raspberry Pi 5 connected uh by the way I've got an argon cooler on this and it is overclocked the 3 GHz basically what we're going to do is grab the pi five daughterboard we're going to plug the pi in here so our USB type-c both hdmis line up so with this single daughterboard connected we've got our power input and video output from the pi5 covered but there's one more thing we need to plug in to get that USB connection so we're actually going to be taking up one of the USB 3 ports on the pi5 that way it'll send that signal back from the keyboard and trackpad and we can use it directly with any operating system on the pi if you've seen any of crow Pi's older Raspberry Pi laptops you know they were pretty bulky they were pretty thick because the Raspberry Pi sat internally I actually like this design a bit more because it's more Universal I mean we've got it right here on the side if you don't want to use a pie you don't have to you can always connect over mini HDMI or USB type-c so I've just turned the unit on and this will deliver 5 vol 5 amps from that USB type-c over on the side here that way we can truly power that Raspberry Pi 5 and again I do have this overclock the 3 GHz I got to say the display actually looks pretty good 1080p IPS with 100% srgb and some people might be worried about you know having a pie hanging off the side of a laptop this thing isn't going to go anywhere it's connected with that mini HDMI USB and USB type-c it's actually a pretty tight connection here and they did send along a Jetson Nano adapter so if you wanted to use something with a bit more power you definitely could all right so here we are Raspberry Pi OS uh up top here we do have a bunch of hot Keys our volume we've also got our brightness and there's a full OSD builtin and one thing I noticed like I mentioned was this actually supports free sync which I was pretty surprised about but we've got all of the basics here contrast saturation brightness you can set up cooler tones warmer tones it's really up to you you can kind of dial this in but I got to say I mean it's actually a pretty good looking IPS display we have here those built-in dual stereo speakers at 100% do sound a bit tinny so if I turn them down to around 80% not bad and it's definitely loud enough but just keep in mind I mean you know when this thing's pegged out you will hear a little bit of Tenny sound it's definitely because we've got that plastic chassis and it's kind of echoing inside but yeah with the Raspberry Pi connected you could definitely get some work done you could also have a lot of fun with this you could set up emulation station on this if you want to but you know I already had Raspberry Pi OS installed ready to go built-in keyboard works just fine and this is all connected over USB we don't have to use any kind of dongles you know have a Bluetooth connection for that trackpad and that keyboard in the past I have seen some of these portable laptops need to be connected over Bluetooth so with that physical connection no input latency we do have gestures with this track pad also and I did try to side swipe but I'm not sure if posos actually supports that or not so that up and down two finger swipe does work I'll test it out with uh Samsung Dex in just a second because I know for a fact that works but overall with the Raspberry Pi 5 connected pretty good experience with the desktop operating system the next thing I wanted to test out was one of my main use case scenarios for a device like this Samsung Dex I've got that Galaxy s24 Ultra and keep in mind anything from the Galaxy S8 on up does support Samsung Dax which means when you plug your device into an external display you can get that desktop operating system and this works really well with a keyboard and trackpad a bigger screen is a must and the Samsung Galaxy tabl line the tab sline does support decks you can actually use that on the tablet's built-in screen but even with those I usually connect it to a larger display and it looks like sideswiping isn't working here with Samsung Dex now I know for a fact that it does work in the Dex operating system but for some reason with the crowy note it's just not registering and of course when you're using Samsung Dex you can still use your phone like a phone we could actually run dual apps here run one on the phone's built-in screen and then one on this external crowy note not too bad here usually I lose you know my trackpad input when I'm using the keyboard at the same time with this it's actually working really well so yeah I could definitely see myself using something like this when I'm traveling you know video editing on your phone or photo editing on a larger screen just works out so much better and there are a lot of apps over on Google Play that really take advantage of the full screen experience and by the way we do have a battery indicator for the laptop itself because after all it's got that 5,000 mAh battery that's actually going to be used for the keyboard trackpad and the screen itself and since we've got our phone plugged in here we're also charging that battery so up in the hotkey area it'll just tell us how much battery we've got left and the final thing I wanted to test here was a handheld gaming PC connected to this unit I'm going to be using the Asus Rog Alix and with this we do have two USB type- C's up top one is USB 4 one is 3.2 but both support video out I'm just plugged into that 3.2 port and I'm really glad they added dual USBC on the Rog Alx that way while we're plugged into something like this we can plug another charger into the device to keep that battery up on the handheld itself trackpad and keyboard are working just fine with this Windows handheld and one thing I took a look at was just to make sure free sync was enabled over USB type-c and it works fine here as long as you've got an AMD system that supports free sync this is going to work with it over USB type-c or mini HDMI that way we're not going to get any kind of screen tearing when we go under that threshold really nice little feature to have on this laptop of course I had to show off a little bit of gaming with this thing and I've got it in mirror mode right now but you could set it up to only be displayed on the uh external display here with that crowy view or we could set it up as kind of an extended desktop but right now we're just in mirr mode it's just going to work as a secondary monitor overall I think it's a pretty nice little setup now there are a few things I would love to see changed down the road maybe with the next revision obviously we're going to need a bigger battery we've got a 5,000 mamp battery here it'll do 5 volts 5 amps out and we could charge our phone up we could run the pi for a little while but it's not going to last all day long if we've got a device plugged in like the pi that has to use that battery along with the LCD screen keyboard and trackpad another thing I'd love to see is just a metal version now of course they wanted to keep the cost down here constructed of plastic you know to have a more premium feel would be really awesome but either way it does work as intended we can connect a ton of different devices to this and like I mentioned As Long as That device supports HDMI out or video over USB type-c it's going to work with the crowy not but that's going to wrap it up for this one if you're interested in learning a little more about the crowy note I'll leave some links to their official website down below like always thanks for watching\n"