Gadgetory

so if you own a Galaxy s8 or you're looking to pick one up hands down one of its coolest features is the fact it can essentially transform from a smartphone into a fully fledged desktop and it's now I turn my galaxy of state from this into this so long side the galaxy okay the other important pieces of puzzle that you need to absolutely make it work is the Samsung dec this is a sphere like hockey puck shaped gadget then transforms into a dock that houses the Galaxy S eight outputs video and also allows you to connect things like a mouse and keyboard now if you want to get that sweet desktop experience you're going to need to drop some cash index itself is not cheap by any means it's around 150 bucks then on top of that you need to buy a monitor keyboard and mouse now of course there is the argument of what if you already own a display keyboard and mouse if that's the case I'm willing to bet that you more than likely have a computer to go along with it and lots of some twenty two-year-old Dell from 1995 that is barely stayin alive with that sweet 256 Meg's of RAM then more than likely your computer is going to be a better full fledged desktop experience than the galaxy s 8 & DEC's combined now as far as the display goes from my side up and with a 23 inch monitor from Lenovo the name and product number is ridiculous and dumb so if you're interested I'll drop a link down below for the keyboard always the logitech k310 Drowned of bright beautiful orange that kind of complements the screensaver perfectly for the mouse I won't be Logitech ultrathin Mouse which is a super clean minimal touch mouse that isn't the cheapest around 50 bucks but it works great it looks awesome and also perfectly complements the Harman Kardon Bluetooth speakers that I went with for audio so the Dex there definitely are some pros and cons for starters even though the Box advertised that will output 4k right now only 1080p will work on one side that actually may be a good thing based solely on the fact that if you were spending four to six hundred dollars on a 4k display just for your phone that might be a little crazy yes I also understand that it might be a little bit weird used in a display with less pixels in your phone but honestly I've really enjoyed this set up so far now beyond the HDMI out on the decks you're also getting two USB ports and sadly these are USB 2.0 not 3.0 so you might have to deal with some painfully slow transfer speed lastly you also get a gig Ethernet port for those of you who are all about that hard wired life converts to the one disappointing factor with the decks is the fact that there is no headphone jack or audio out on the in theory he could have technically used the Galaxy s8 if the headphone jack were up top but since on the bottom and it is then docked you're out of luck so with that as far as a workaround goes you pretty much have two options you're going to be the monitor supports audio pass-through over HDMI or in my case what I did was set up through a Bluetooth speaker now surprisingly using a Bluetooth speaker what the setup works really really well so as far as audio control goes I really like how everything is laid out in the interface you have independent control over your ringtone the Bluetooth speaker notifications and then the overall system volume which is awesome so that we're past audio as far as the actual user experience with decks goes it actually works surprisingly well now regardless of how great the experience is and trust me I give Samsung all the credit in the world for executing this well I think the biggest downfall right now is the lack of app support there is a dedicated app section that is optimized for decks but that list is really really small right now the other confusing part is that there are apps that aren't on the optimized list that still works so it's almost like you get a play this weird guessing game for some strange reason Spotify does not work with Dex play music of course does in a big beautiful full-screen mode it will make me scratch my head as well Spotify isn't supported for some weird unknown reason alpha music works on Dex now in third cases some apps don't work well because you do need a touch screen to actually take most advantage of those it's really hard to talk and not get eaten by ghosts right now so I'm gonna try and does these guys Oh No yeah now jump some games and be on things like Word docs and note-taking apps one thing I was genuinely curious about was video and photo editing much to my disappointment video editing is not really a thing on Dex Adobe clips from what I can tell is one of the better options out there but it was not a great experience at all photo editing on the other hand was actually really cool for starters Photoshop Express and Lightroom mobile both are fully supported on deck so you can get a pretty fantastic fullscreen experience as most of you I'm sure are aware the Galaxy S 8 has a fantastic camera so being able to edit those photos on a bigger screen and then have them directly on the phone after you're done is kind of awesome now as far as after work well actually really like the YouTube LED especially in full-screen mode we have nice big window forget it here on the left shut up to your savage consumer on the right you have a nice layout of all the videos and a little tip just in case you own this instinctively you want to scroll down here to leave that first comment but actually you got to scroll down all the way right here we've jet a little love drop a comment I usually say what's up within the first hour so let me know how your day is going also from that giving you quick demo how well the Bluetooth functionality works you can actually control volume from the keyboard if you want to encounter a bad product that you can't actually feature in also strangely enough Instagram work index you can also access the camera so if we wanted to send out a picture Evans want to take a selfie with me so filming through deck oh that's yeah that's decks it you're really close man not to me not the screen oh I'm clicking my mouse right now to take the picture you could get Friday yeah here we go there you go that's what I get I'm asking the mouse is like a stylus has workers me other really cool points with deck setup as well your Galaxy f8 is docket is also charging simultaneously on top of that it does support fast charging honestly I think where this makes most sense for those who don't already own a computer and can pick up a display mouse and keyboard for cheap is the Dex a full-fledged desktop replacement absolutely not but it is definitely a step in the right direction the only thing I got to say they hope Samsung sticks with this continues to make improvements and does not abandon this it is a crazy cool concept and a smart phones get faster and more powerful I don't think it's insane that they will eventually turn into our computers put sweats postin hey Lex but 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