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Comment by adrian_b

6 hours ago

Motorola was already in my top position in the list of possible upgrades for my old (ASUS) phone, for providing at moderate prices USB 3 connectivity and DisplayPort 1.4 that allows the connection of an external monitor, for a desktop mode.

With this announcement, Motorola has consolidated its top position, making it unlikely for me to choose something else.

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strcat  5 hours ago

Bear in mind it will solely be future devices which are supported. They're being developed and aren't launched yet.

sourcecodeplz  6 hours ago

What do you mean desktop mode? I though only Samsung Android phones had that, called Samsung DeX.

  • strcat  4 hours ago

    GrapheneOS has hardware-based virtualization on the Pixel 6 and later along with DisplayPort alternate mode on the Pixel 8 and later. It has the standard Android 16 QPR2 desktop mode and Terminal VM management app capable of running GUI applications for other operating systems. We could even add Windows support, but we have much higher priorities for the foreseeable future.

  • trashb  5 hours ago

    Motorolla has had a similar desktop experience for a while. For example my Moto G100 has this feature since 2021. It actually works quite good, I really liked that your touchscreen turns into a mousepad in these modes.

    I believe it is called "Motorolla Ready For" the marketing is not great (a bit confusing name if you ask me).

  • hocuspocus  4 hours ago

    Most mid to high-end ranges from Android OEMs have a DisplayPort video output and basic keyboard plus mouse support. Pixels were late to the party, but it's been there for a long time otherwise.

    The functionality used to be really barebones outside of Samsung DeX. Now it's a bit better since it's officially supported by Google.