• Samsung Dex – what Continuum should’ve been

    Posted on March 29, 2017 at 16:30 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Credit: IDG.tv

    I rarely get blown away by a demo, but this is one you gotta see.

    Based on this InfoWorld review (which admittedly looks like a demo), the Dex docking station is a portable puck with ports. Slide your Galaxy S8 into the top, attach a monitor and keyboard, and you end up in a Chromebook-like environment, where your Galaxy/Android apps are just a click away.

    The phone’s in the middle of it all. Unplug your phone, and all of your apps are where you left them.

    IF it ends up working this way – that’s a big if – Samsung and Google have just out-Scroogled Microsoft. If Dex will run the Android version of Office, Chrome, and all of my Google Apps, I’ll be first in line to buy one.

    Google built the Android operating system “up” – adding tablet support and bringing along all the Google Apps. Microsoft’s trying to build Windows “down” – trying to tack Universal Windows Platform apps onto an old operating system.

    Right now we have maybe two dozen UWP apps — perhaps a half dozen of them worth running. The Google Play Store? Pshaw. In the early running, one of the approaches is winning, and the other remains vapor.

    Take a look. With your Windows-centric glasses on, tell me what you think.

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