Adam Kos It's quite easy to forget the fact that today's smartphones are actually compact computers with more power than many computers. Nevertheless, it is computers that offer a work experience that a phone cannot provide. Or yes? In the case of Samsung DeX, indeed, to some extent. This South Korean manufacturer has become a leader in turning a smartphone into a desktop computer. In quotes, of course.
So DeX is a tool that wants to make you have a laptop in your phone. This function has even been present in the best smartphones of the manufacturer since 2017. And yes, that is the problem - even if some do not allow DeX, others do not even know what it is and why they should use it. But imagine if you just connected your iPhone to a monitor or TV and had macOS running on it. Would you like it?
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Simple, elegant and practical
Even in the world of Samsung, of course, it's not so clear-cut, because you're still working with Android, not Windows, but the environment is already quite similar to it. Here you have windows that you work with in the same way as on the surface of a desktop system (including macOS), you can open applications in them, drag data between them, etc. Your device, i.e. typically a mobile phone, then works as a trackpad. Of course, you can also connect a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard for the maximum possible experience.
Additionally, DeX-enabled devices do not need to download any app to use this feature. Does it start automatically or when you connect the device to the monitor does the given notification appear giving you a choice - use DeX or just mirror the content? In addition, the function is already so far that it also works wirelessly on certain devices. So much for connecting the phone to the monitor, but DeX also works on tablets, independently and without the need for an additional display.
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Vratislav Holub True multitasking
iPads are still criticized for their multitasking. Samsung's Android tablets are still Android tablets, but if you turn on DeX on them, it opens up a fairly comprehensive workspace that can get the most out of the device. Even though Samsung manufactures its laptops, it does so in a limited market, or rather not worldwide, so it does not officially sell them in our country. Even if he does, he doesn't have to solve any unification of systems, because he doesn't really have any (only the One UI superstructure).
This is how Apple presented Universal Control at WWDC
But Apple keeps mentioning how it doesn't want to unify iPadOS with macOS, while it seems to be the only feasible way. Instead, it brings various functions, such as Universal Control, but it does not turn the iPad into a computer, rather you just expand your computer with the iPad and its capabilities. I'm not saying I need something like DeX on iPhones and iPads, I'm just saying it could be a really practical solution to replace a Mac in certain cases where you can't currently use it.
Since I don't have a computer or tablet. So I use Samsung Dex quite often. It is quite enough for simple office work.
Exactly. The year before last, I had the NTB in the service for three weeks and found out that I was able to work on the S10 without any problems. I ran into some limitations, but they were pretty easy to solve.
I used it sometimes mainly for RDP, sometimes for mail. I was switching from Note 8 to Note 10 at the time, because of Linux on Dex, in the end it didn't even appear on N10, and they canceled the project altogether. I recently switched from android to ios and I don't miss Dex at all.
DeX is an absolute gem. In addition, when you already have a dock with USB-C, you connect it as an NTB and everything works normally - network from the dock, keyboard, mouse.. Everything. Then all you need is RDP, e.g. with Windows, which you have somewhere on the server (or just a remote desktop somewhere on a PC in the boiler room) and as a result you will find that you don't actually need a computer at all. You just have full Windows on your phone.
I think Apple wants you to buy more devices, not just one with Dex, I use Dex all the time at work, they work as an operator, so they replace quiet work with all the consumption of content from the net via Dex, you can do everything on it, it's probably the same as Windows 😊