[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Accessories] SmilerOnline:
**BIG NEWS IMO**

Samsung Newsroom previously stated the following:

That comment suggesting that it'll come to other devices makes me wonder if this is talking about ALL of Samsungs Nougat+ devices, or their future flagships (i.e. Galaxy Note 8).

But the fact that they have confirmed that this will be coming to more devices suggests to me that they are really taking this serious and its not just considered to be a "gimmick" as some have suggested! :)

I am so pleased about this, as I can feel confident that this will continuosly evolve, and the 'Unified Computing' experience will have full support from a major (smartphone) powerhouse like Samsung.

Yes other 'technology powerhouses' like 'Microsoft' have tried this before, but when you look at their overall mobile experience, I wouldn't consider them to be a 'Smartphone powerhouse' like Samsung or Apple, Windows Mobile was barely a 'Meh' product, and in a smartphone, the smartphone experience is considered first, and the desktop second, and even then, MS made the continuum desktop look unappealing.

Motorola just don't seem to be on par with Samsung with their marketing or their overall software development skills and often have failed to implement anything that is their own on top of stock Android... Aside from that, the Atrix tried to deliver this before the hardware was really capable of bringing a fully productive multi-window experience to Android desktop.

Though hats off to Motorola and Microsoft for trying.

Don't even mention 'Ubuntu phone', practically no 'average joe' has even heard of 'Ubuntu' let alone the 'Ubuntu phone' experience.

Android is the only OS that really is capable of bringing a brilliant mobile experience, yet is scalable enough that it can provide a full desktop experience too.

Windows desktop still has some advantage that it offers support for legacy Win32 generation apps, but their mobile OS doesn't support them, so it makes that pretty much useless, and most Win32 apps were never really built with scalability/multi-DPI in mind, their UWP generation apps try to solve this problem, but the portfolio of UWP generation apps is nothing on par with the Android/iOS' app portfolios. Android has a much larger database of the 'modern scalable' kind of apps, and that will only further increase now that we have the hardware, to make those apps or new apps, more desktop friendly.

Some of the tools I use still require me to use Windows 10 for the Win32 legacy app support such as advanced graphics editing apps, and more advanced software development tools, but this is something that only hasn't come to Android yet as their wasn't a large enough number of people using Android with a keyboard and mouse as their default input devices, and generally, these more 'advanced' tools will start to show up now, its just going to take a little time to get the ball rolling.

A fully optimised experience isn't going to be available for everyone immediately, but we have seen the first (usable) big step in this direction with the Samsung DeX experience. Now we will begin to see things adapting to the 'Unified experience'.

The next big question I guess is, will this put enough pressure on Apple that they will feel that they will have to provide an experience like this to compete? Of course Apple makes most of their money from selling the hardware, but use their own software as their USP, so they generally benefit from the old solution that everyone is used to (and many old fashioned people want to stick to) which is having several devices for different experiences.

The phone, tablet, laptop, desktop and TV are all sold by Apple in a way which requires you to buy each of them individual devices to get the perfect digital experience in all environments, but that is not cost effective for the user (Especially not at Apples prices), yes DeX is currently not the cheapest of products, but the idea that you only need 1 device means that the overall cost of our individual digital lives will come down dramatically in the long term.

Just to prove a point, the S8 & DeX could effectively provide us with the following:

A phone (of course),

An internet connected TV experience,

More effective portability than both a tablet and a laptop, and still with the ability to connect a KB&M for increased productivity.

A full scale desktop experience, on most screen sizes, again doing away with the need for a laptop/tablet.

Storage isn't a problem as some suggest, as I currently have 320GB in my S8+, and a recent report suggested that the Note 8 will come with the option of 256GB integrated with support for expandable storage, enabling capacities over 512GB.

*Edit*

Also if you think that DeX is too expensive, check out 'Android Andromeda' rumoured to be a merge of Chrome OS and Android, which could lead to a universal DeX mode from all hardware vendors.