Landing with the March Pixel Drop, your Google Pixel phone can now become a mini PC thanks to Android's Desktop Mode.

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.

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Thats nonsense, there are plenty of phones and tablets with usbc video output. Its been a feature for like a decade. Other companies have had working desktop modes for a long time and google just abandoned their work on it until they decided they could use it as a marketing feature. They probably just didnt want the pixel to cut into the chromebook marketshare.

    • cole@lemdro.idEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      this has been well covered by now. just cause it works in product x, doesn’t mean it was implemented correctly in product y