[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Accessories] SC07 TP2:
Thanks for sharing your experience with Wine 3.0.

Meleor shared an Indiegogo secret perk link to obtain a Mirabook for $199 on 18-10-17 and the offer seems to be still available. See the original post at

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=74221865&postcount=1056 for the link. Mind there is shipping costs and local import duty to be paid on top of $199.

I've got a NexDock from a previous Indiegogo campaign (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nexdock-the-world-s-most-affordable-laptop-tablet-smartphone) which is basically a 14" battery powered HDMI display device with Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad. Admittedly this was a low quality product (plastic bodied, 1376 x 768 TFT screen) and isn't able to supply internal power to the DeX dock but I've used it out and about with my previous Sony Xperia phone (mirror display), used a Miracast dongle with the Xperia and Note8 as well as connecting directly to the Dex dock with an HDMI cable.

Depending on the apps that you use on a regular basis, the experience hasn't been too great for me. The DeX interface (task bar, system fonts, widgets, screen furniture [close button, etc]) is very small on the 14" display (I know, I know 1080 --> 768 vertical pixels doesn't help, producing lots of jaggies) and the option to decrease the DPI to make the screen text and furniture bigger (found within the Developer Options section of the Settings panel) is greyed out. It remains at 411 dpi.

System settings, BlueMail's and Messages on-screen text is tiny and while I can scale up the text within individual app settings to be readable in 14" DeX mode, it then becomes jumbo text when I disconnect from DeX and use the phone's display (and of course when using it on my 27" display at home). A number of apps are like that. I think it would greatly help if we could modify DeX's default 411 dpi system resolution which is great for large format displays but not small ones.

When I use the NexDock out and about, I prefer to mirror the Note8's display in landscape mode and use the apps full-screen with mouse control. I use NovaLauncher which allows a landscape home screen mode unlike TouchWiz (which is portrait only) and force all apps into landscape mode using Rotation Control app.

When connecting via Miracast and mirroring the screen, the Note8 software will allow you to change aspect ratio to 16:9 to match the screen you are casting to. Screen mirroring mode when Dex is connected to the 16:9 display via HDMI doesn't give you this option which results in the Note8's 18.5:9 picture being shown on the 16:9 screen with black bars above and below the image, further worsening the vertical resolution.

Long story short, DeX isn't great on small screens (mixture of DeX and Android app 'poor' behaviour) and HDMI screen mirroring (while improved) isn't great either. Linux on DeX will change everything as, like TeamViewer or RDP sessions, at least the GUI dpi setting is consistent (big or small depending on how good your eyesight is) across OS desktop and program windows, not a mixed bag like with DeX and Android apps at the moment.

Sorry for the long post but I've given this a lot of thought; I want Mirateam/Mirabook to succeed and replace my cheap NexDock. Mirabook looks like a quality product but the DeX/Andriod app environment isn't quite there to truly showcase convergence (universal) computing just yet. :crying:

I'd be interested in hearing what the real experience is like with Mirabook and DeX from anyone who attended CES this year.