Samsung DeX brings sedentary desktop life to the mobile Galaxy S8

29 March 2017
The dock creates a desktop environment advanced enough to edit RAW photos in Adobe Lightroom with a keyboard and mouse.

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  • 29 Mar 2017

The only actually innovative thing oF S8

Being killed by the low specs of the phone (they should have added 6 or 8GB of ram, probably a soc that is more than just 10% faster).

Too bad that nobody would know of it. It will be buried among the sea of gimmicks that Samsung created this year.

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    • AnonD-625786
    • smc
    • 29 Mar 2017

    This is actually a pretty neat idea. Here's a thing I actually like about the S8. lol

      Marvin, 29 Mar 2017True, you can fit it in a much smaller location using a com... moreYour comparing apples to oranges here. One is designed to be a portable windows computer the other is designed to allow you to use your andriod phone on a big screen monitor. also the compute sticks that are only 100 bucks suck. They only have 2gb of memory and are slow AF.

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        • Marvin
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        • 29 Mar 2017

        Anonymous, 29 Mar 2017TB86 I dont think its suppose to be compared to a desktop c... moreTrue, you can fit it in a much smaller location using a compute stick that costs 100$ and has a full featured Win10 and supports all/any desktop app. It's cheaper,smaller and more feature packed so it can't be a Samsung

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          • Anonymous
          • jVs
          • 29 Mar 2017

          TB86 I dont think its suppose to be compared to a desktop computer. xD I cant fit a desktop in my front pocket.

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            • 5h8
            • 29 Mar 2017

            DonAlduck, 29 Mar 2017I think the big question here is, how well does it support ... moreI think they will. All the apps are going to work in multi-windowing, even without the proper APIs. The device is just going to lie about the device's resolution and PPI.

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              • Anonymous
              • 3uW
              • 29 Mar 2017

              This i great, but a unified desktop dock for all Android devices would be even better!

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                • Anonymous
                • pv@
                • 29 Mar 2017

                Still prefer Continuum over this quarter-bakes solution.

                But it's nice seeing Android manufacturers trying to catch up to Microsoft (Windows).

                  I think the big question here is, how well does it support the Google Play store and the millions of applications that are stored on phone? Are they fully supported just like in Chrome OS?

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                    • fmg
                    • 29 Mar 2017

                    If MS contributed then I can bet a much better continuum or even support for x86 apps on the next big windows phone with no issues

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                      • AnonD-390711
                      • mqS
                      • 29 Mar 2017

                      Will be expensive and nowhere near a desktop`s performance.Maybe the next try.

                        Wow! It's better than expected.

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