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Samsung's best phones come with DeX mode, an underrated but really useful feature that turns your phone into a miniature computer, as long as you have access to a monitor, keyboard and mouse. Samsung is not the first company to come up with such a mode, as a number of other device manufacturers have also worked on something similar Androidem. Google itself on hidden desktop mode in Androidu has been in the works for several years and could finally come with it with the Pixel 8 series. 

So Samsung DeX allows you to extend your device to a desktop-like environment. Samsung first added the feature to Samsung smartphones Galaxy S8 and S8+, back in 2017, and continues to support this feature on all its latest flagship smartphones, including the Galaxy S, Note, Galaxy Tab S or Galaxy From Foldy. Galaxy The A90 5G was then the first phone of the series Galaxy A, which also received support for this feature.

DeX by Google 

The latest leak of Google Pixel flagship phones planned for this year suggests support for USB DisplayPort alternative mode. This should allow the Pixel 8 to be connected to an external monitor via USB-C. Google has already made some improvements to the system's desktop mode Android in a system Android 13 QPR1 and was also found to be present in the system Android 14.

In desktop mode, instead of mirroring the contents of the home screen, the phone will launch the system version Android, which is close to the appearance of the computer desktop and is supplemented with a main panel at the bottom. If Google adds the function to Androidu, it would mean that other device manufacturers could use it in the future as well Androidem, which would give Samsung clear competition in this regard. Of course, certain demands will be placed on the chip used here, and it will thus only be available in flagship models.

Apple does not wait Apple for a similar cough function 

If he came with a similar function Apple, it would certainly be appreciated by a number of iPhone and iPad users. This is especially so when we take into account that it has its own macOS operating system for Mac computers. So it can be believed that it would be a really great tuned solution. But what would that mean? Clear cannibalization of Mac sales, which logically the company does not want. It sells iPhones like hot cakes anyway, and it doesn't really need to promote them with similar functionality. But PC sales are steadily declining across the entire segment, and this would further weaken them.

So will we ever see a similar feature in the case of Apple mobile devices? Absolutely definitely not. Instead, its iPads only adopt some macOS features and vice versa, where iPhones are not allowed into the desktop world at all. But the best part (and the worst for the customer) is that Apple is still going through it and will surely continue to do so. Yes, it's a marginal feature, but it would certainly help many users not only in an emergency, but also if they don't really need a computer. 

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