Nearly three years after running a crowdfunding campaign for a laptop dock powered by your smartphone, the folks at NexDock are back for another round. The NexDock 2 has a better screen, a more compact design, and an aluminum body (rather than plastic). You can connect a smartphone by running a cable to the USB-C […]
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Report: Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 has DeX support, will work as secondary monitor
Samsung’s DeX platform lets you connect some of the company’s latest smartphones to a dock to use the phone like a desktop computer. Soon you may be able to do the same thing with a Samsung tablet. According to SamMobile, the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 will be the first Samsung tablet with DeX support. […]
Samsung DeX Pad coming May 13 for $100 (use Galaxy S9 like a desktop, keyboard, or touchpad)
Samsung’s DeX platform lets you use your the company’s phones for desktop computing. Last year the company launched a DeX Station dock that let you connect a keyboard, mouse, and monitor to use your Galaxy phone as a pseudo-desktop PC. This year the company unveiled the DeX Pad which has similar functionality, plus a few […]
Closer look at Samsung’s Linux on Galaxy (use a phone like an Ubuntu desktop PC)
There are a number of ways to run a desktop Linux environment on a smartphone, but usually it involves installing third-party software. Samsung is one of the first major phone makers that plans to offer official software that lets you use the company’s Android phones as Linux desktop PCs. It’s called Linux on Galaxy, and […]
Leak: Samsung’s DeX Pad turns a phone into a desktop PC (with the phone working as a touchpad)
Samsung’s DeX Station dock lets you connect select Samsung phones to a monitor, mouse, and keyboard and use the phone as if it were a desktop PC. But Samsung seems to have a new model on the way called the DeX Pad. It’ll do everything a DeX Station does… but it’s designed so that your […]
Samsung’s Linux on Galaxy software will bring full-fledged Ubuntu desktop to your phone (with an external display)
Samsung’s DeX dock lets you connect one of the company’s recent phones to an external display, mouse, and keyboard to use your phone like a desktop PC… assuming you’re comfortable with a desktop PC that runs Android. But soon you may also be able to use your Android phone as a Linux PC. Samsung recently […]
Samsung’s latest Android phones can also be Linux desktops
When Samsung launched the Galaxy S8 smartphone earlier this year, the company also introduced a new system that allows you to connect your phone to an external display, mouse, and keyboard and use your phone like a desktop. Up until now that’s meant when you use the Samsung DeX docking station you can run Android […]
Samsung DeX lets you use a Galaxy S8 like a desktop PC
Samsung’s new smartphone isn’t just a smartphone. The Galaxy S8 is also a desktop PC… sort of. It’s the first Samsung phone to support a new feature called DeX. Here’s the idea: keep a docking station plugged into your monitor and when you drop the phone into the cradle you’ll be able to see all of […]
Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone may support external displays with desktop mode
This may be the year that using your smartphone as if it were a desktop PC goes mainstream. Or at least that’s what a few different companies seem to be hoping. The makers of Remix OS have announced that they’re bringing their custom version of Android to smartphones… and supporting a feature called Singularity that […]