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And are there apps for normal desktop office work?
I'm surely not gonna use Google docs or Microsoft's cloud clobber.
Any apps that are available on Android can be used with desktop mode, including Collabora and OnlyOffice. I assume there will be variable levels of optimization though since this is still so new.
Edit: Forgot to mention that you should also be able to run linux apps https://www.androidauthority.com/run-desktop-linux-apps-on-android-how-to-3586539/
So new, as in, it has been available forever, just not on google phones. But every other manufacturer has done it at one point or another in the last ten years if not more.
For some reason, I thought this was already possible and it was something I was jealous of as an iPhone user.
it was, just in an early state under the developer settings
I've been waiting for this for a while. Is it really "stable" though? There's very limited info on this but what little there is seems to suggest it's not ready.
I love this! Wish iPhone would have this feature.
If so, I could do all my work with just my iPhone.
I have a 15, and will hold out on a new iPhone for at least 4-5 years. I may go longer if there is not a desktop mode by then though.
It didn't already do this? Why did I have phones and tablets that could do this already?
And a monitor that supports usb-c, I assume.
DisplayLink. The Dell box I use to hotdesk my office laptop by day also works as a KVM on my pixel 9a. I get power, monitor, keyboard, mouse and ethernet on one cable.
It's good for watching movies.
Do you mean DisplayPort?
No, that's different. Displaylink is basically KVM over USB-C.
As far as i know, display link requires software not available on the pixel, so you must be using display port and confusing both. Display port supports all the things you said
No. DisplayLink is video out over a regular USB protocol/connection, not "alt mode". It's for when you don't have true video out. It's compressed to hell and stupid.
I think you mean DP Alt Mode.
