Google says Android 16's new desktop mode builds on 'the foundation of Samsung DeX'
Google says Android 16's new desktop mode builds on 'the foundation of Samsung DeX'
Google is building out better desktop capabilities for Android 16, and the company says it is leveraging Samsung DeX for that.
Better late than never I guess
They are trying to kill normal desktops, it will be easier to transition everything online at megacorps.
That's why we need linux phones.
Honestly Graphene on desktop is best case scenario for me. Windows has too many ads and spying, Linux doesn't have enough support, MacOS hardware is too damn expensive and tightly-controlled.
Yes, or LineageOS.
But with Android app support in Linux maybe some day I could get both worlds ...
(I need apps bcs society demands then, like banking, work stuff, etc.)
Nothing feels cooler than plugging in my phone with Dex to a small USB c hub at work to get desktop mode on a secondary monitor and then using a VPN home and opening my virtual machine for a full desktop
Yeah dex is very impressive but it still falls short for my use cases. Apart from browsing the web and office suites you cannot do much.
DeX is pretty cool. Google should have gone that route from the beginning instead of that split strategy with ChromeOS. More Android apps would support big screens were it not for ChromeBooks running a different, web based OS.