I turned my Galaxy S8 into a Desk Setup #Helpful Post

so if you own a Galaxy s8 or you're

looking to pick one up hands down one of

its coolest features is the fact it can

essentially transform from a smartphone

into a fully fledged

desktop and it's now I turn my galaxy of

state from this into this so long side

the galaxy okay the other important

pieces of puzzle that you need to

absolutely make it work is the Samsung

dec this is a sphere like hockey puck

shaped gadget then transforms into a

dock that houses the Galaxy S eight

outputs video and also allows you to

connect things like a mouse and keyboard

now if you want to get that sweet

desktop experience you're going to need

to drop some cash index itself is not

cheap by any means it's around 150 bucks

then on top of that you need to buy a

monitor keyboard and mouse now of course

there is the argument of what if you

already own a display keyboard and mouse

if that's the case I'm willing to bet

that you more than likely have a

computer to go along with it and lots of

some twenty two-year-old Dell from 1995

that is barely stayin alive with that

sweet 256 Meg's of RAM then more than

likely your computer is going to be a

better full fledged desktop experience

than the galaxy s 8 & DEC's combined now

as far as the display goes from my side

up and with a 23 inch monitor from

Lenovo the name and product number is

ridiculous and dumb so if you're

interested I'll drop a link down below

for the keyboard always the logitech

k310 Drowned of bright beautiful orange

that kind of complements the screensaver

perfectly for the mouse I won't be

Logitech ultrathin Mouse which is a

super clean minimal touch mouse that

isn't the cheapest around 50 bucks but

it works great it looks awesome and also

perfectly complements the Harman Kardon

Bluetooth speakers that I went with for

audio so the Dex there definitely are

some pros and cons for starters even

though the Box advertised that will

output 4k right now only 1080p will work

on one side that actually may be a good

thing based solely on the fact that if

you were spending four to six hundred

dollars on a 4k display just for your

phone that might be a little crazy yes I

also understand that it might be a

little bit weird used in a display with

less pixels in your phone but honestly

I've really enjoyed this set up so far

now beyond the HDMI out on the decks

you're also getting two USB ports and

sadly these are USB 2.0 not 3.0 so you

might have to deal with some painfully

slow transfer speed lastly you also get

a gig Ethernet port for those of you who

are all about that hard wired life

converts to the one disappointing factor

with the decks is the fact that there is

no headphone jack or audio out on the

in theory he could have technically used

the Galaxy s8 if the headphone jack were

up top but since on the bottom and it is

then docked you're out of luck

so with that as far as a workaround goes

you pretty much have two options you're

going to be the monitor supports audio

pass-through over HDMI or in my case

what I did was set up through a

Bluetooth speaker now surprisingly using

a Bluetooth speaker what the setup works

really really well so as far as audio

control goes I really like how

everything is laid out in the interface

you have independent control over your

ringtone the Bluetooth speaker

notifications and then the overall

system volume which is awesome so that

we're past audio as far as the actual

user experience with decks goes it

actually works surprisingly well

now regardless of how great the

experience is and trust me I give

Samsung all the credit in the world for

executing this well I think the biggest

downfall right now is the lack of app

support there is a dedicated app section

that is optimized for decks but that

list is really really small right now

the other confusing part is that there

are apps that aren't on the optimized

list that still works so it's almost

like you get a play this weird guessing

game for some strange reason Spotify

does not work with Dex play music of

course does in a big beautiful

full-screen mode it will make me scratch

my head as well Spotify isn't supported

for some weird unknown reason alpha

music works on Dex now in third cases

some apps don't work well because you do

need a touch screen to actually take

most advantage of those it's really hard

to talk and not get eaten by ghosts

right now so I'm gonna try and does

these guys Oh No yeah now jump some

games and be on things like Word docs

and note-taking apps one thing I was

genuinely curious about was video and

photo editing much to my disappointment

video editing is not really a thing on

Dex Adobe clips from what I can tell is

one of the better options out there but

it was not a great experience at all

photo editing on the other hand was

actually really cool

for starters Photoshop Express and

Lightroom mobile both are fully

supported on deck so you can get a

pretty fantastic fullscreen experience

as most of you I'm sure are aware the

Galaxy S 8 has a fantastic camera so

being able to edit those photos on a

bigger screen and then have them

directly on the phone after you're done

is kind of awesome now as far as after

work well actually really like the

YouTube LED especially in full-screen

mode we have

nice big window forget it here on the

left shut up to your savage consumer on

the right you have a nice layout of all

the videos and a little tip just in case

you own this instinctively you want to

scroll down here to leave that first

comment but actually you got to scroll

down all the way right here we've jet a

little love drop a comment I usually say

what's up within the first hour so let

me know how your day is going also from

that giving you quick demo how well the

Bluetooth functionality works you can

actually control volume from the

keyboard if you want to encounter a bad

product that you can't actually feature

in also strangely enough Instagram work

index you can also access the camera so

if we wanted to send out a picture Evans

want to take a selfie with me

so filming through deck oh that's yeah

that's decks it you're really close man

not to me not the screen oh I'm clicking

my mouse right now to take the picture

you could get Friday yeah here we go

there you go that's what I get

I'm asking the mouse is like a stylus

has workers me other really cool points

with deck setup as well your Galaxy f8

is docket is also charging

simultaneously on top of that it does

support fast charging honestly I think

where this makes most sense for those

who don't already own a computer and can

pick up a display mouse and keyboard for

cheap is the Dex a full-fledged desktop

replacement absolutely not but it is

definitely a step in the right direction

the only thing I got to say they hope

Samsung sticks with this continues to

make improvements and does not abandon

this it is a crazy cool concept and a

smart phones get faster and more

powerful I don't think it's insane that

they will eventually turn into our

computers put sweats postin hey Lex

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