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the idea of plugging a smartphone into a dock and turning it into a PC isn't a new one but previous attempts have failed because the phones weren't powerful enough or there's limited app support well Samsung's new deck stock takes another stamp of the idea but it has two big advantages first it's designed for the incredibly powerful galaxy s 8 and second it can access specially optimized versions of some Android apps in order to give you a full screen experience that's surprisingly PC like the decks looks like a hockey puck enclosed but it flips open to reveal a USB C port plugging in your phone there's an HDMI output to connect to an external display and you connect a keyboard and mouse via bluetooth a handful of Android apps are already optimized for this desktop view including the default internet browser and Microsoft Office that means you can run multiple apps at once and grab the corner of each window to resize just like on a PC apps that are not decks optimized will open in a phone shaped window it's not quite the full PC experience but there's an interesting security play here current smartphones are considered very secure as they're both encrypted and biometrically locked so the Dex gives you the option of packing all your sense of data on the phone using it as a desktop PC then putting the entire thing in your pocket and walking away