The best Samsung is one of our favorite features on the phone, which allows you to plug your smartphone in a monitor and uses it as a desktop. Now cook its version of Google, offering a glimpse in Google’s new Android desktop mode with the latest beta build of Android 16 that works in the same way.
Rumors have been revolving since last March that Google has been working on a system to allow users to run chromos from a pixel smartphone and run on external monitor, but now we have the first glimpse of what will look. Android authority The Google Pixel was able to manually enable desktop mode under the developer options on Pixel 8 Pro, running the latest Android 16 beta.
Once hooks for a compatible monitor via USB-C, it displays a PC-like interface similar to Samsung’s dex, as you can see in the video below.
Depending on the video, Google’s desktop mode seems to be the best interaction facility with Android Tablet, the kind of Windows PCs like Windows PC are used on PC.
When docked on a monitor, the pixel phone is pinned and shows Android taskbar at the bottom with recent apps. There is also a place on the taskbar where you will find an app drawer in the same vein in the form of Windows Start menu, with Android’s original navigation button.
You can launch several apps in floating windows simultaneously and at the same time you can launch drag and drop windows in the same way that you will be able to do on the desktop. Best of all, you can continue using the phone when the desktop window is active.
All this looks forward to converting your phone into a multitasking machine. Like dex, it can be closest to which we get to be a computer that fits our pockets because how it repeats desktop PC experience.
There is no word yet when this feature will roll out. The Android Authority said that it is suspected that we will see the desktop mode with the launch of Android 16. Later in this spring. As soon as possible, we are likely to see that Android 17 goes live for some time next year.
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