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Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by snowdriftissue@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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This has been hidden in developer options for a while now, but they're now releasing it officially. Limited to Pixel 8 and newer devices and no 4k yet.

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[–] Fetus@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago (3 children)

So sort of like the Continuum mode that Windows Phones had, like, ten years ago?

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 29 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Like desktop mode on Librem5 in 2020, convergence on PinePhone from 2021, or Samsung Dex from a few years ago, too.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And every Ubuntu Touch device with support for external monitors for the last ten years or so. Here's a demonstration running on a Fairphone 4.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago

Sadly it won't work on fairphone 6 because it only has USB 2.0 and there isn't enough bandwidth.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh the Motorola Atrix from like, 2014? I still have the lapdock. Used it with an original RPi for a while to make a terrible laptop.

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago

Wiki says the model is from 2011, and all that functionality was implemented on Android 2.3.x, impressive! Google is only 14 versions behind.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Literally every Samsung Android phone has come with their Dex desktop for like 10 years too.

I fucking hate Google at this point. They're just an even shittier version of apple now. Locking down their shit for no reason, and claiming decades old innovations are actually new and theirs.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

Brother, Apple wrote that playbook 🤣

[–] greyscale 4 points 3 days ago

Yes, but even a diamond encrusted turd still gets flushed, diamonds and all.