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Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by Ninjazzon@infosec.pub to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] ouch@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Cool. Now let me legally record my phone calls without rooting my phone.

[–] dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io 1 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Built-in to GrapheneOS for a while now.

[–] seekpie@lemmy.seekpie.nohost.me 1 points 11 months ago

CalyxOS also has it (though they block it where it's illegal).

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago (19 children)

Except it's not automatic

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[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (6 children)

For users with a Samsung Flagship phone, if you have the "One UI 7" update, they just recently added this feature.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You used be able to run Linux apps too, but they pulled it all back because they are only good at creating bloatware.

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[–] mooncake@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

OneUI 7.0.

[–] DemandtheOxfordComma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And one UI 6.0 and one UI 5.0. My Samsung phones have done this for as long as I can remember

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[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nowadays you don't even need to root your phone; certains custom roms do that by default

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (5 children)

And to install a custom ROM you need to unlock your boot loader and root it anyways. Do custom roms even come with a non-root option? I haven't done it in years.

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[–] thfi@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 11 months ago

Microsoft tried the same idea about 10 years ago with Continuum, even including a hardware dongle: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Continuum https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/continuum-phone

Canonical had something similar, too, back in the days with their Ubuntu Touch and named it Convergence: https://www.linux.com/news/first-ubuntu-touch-tablet-brings-convergence-last/

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

If you want deskktop version of Firefox or Chromium on your phone, you can get them using Termux. But yeah they will be slow.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I swear they've been writing the same article for a year.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 11 months ago

Much longer than that. But that's probably because Google keeps picking it up and then dropping it again.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Cool. Samsung did this a decade ago though.

Everyone is abandoning Android with a passion thanks to Google's bullshit.

[–] lemmy_acct_id_8647@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

But yeah. Fuck Google

[–] ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

The Motorola Atrix 4G had a Desktop Mode (Webtop was its name and it was Ubuntu based) in 2011 before Samsung. They even released a cradle dock, that you could connect to a tv or monitor, and a laptop dock for it and the source code on Sourceforge (my guess is to be GPL compliant).

I got that phone specifically for the desktop mode. It had a full blown Firefox browser installed and you could run your apps along side it.

I was blown away and thought, "This is the future for computers" but I was incredibly wrong. After the short honeymoon period i found it to be sluggish and clunky when using an android app. The hardware although phenomenal for a phone couldn't provide an optimal experience for a desktop.

[–] vegetvs@kbin.earth 0 points 11 months ago

Everyone is abandoning Android

What do you mean?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago

Ubuntu did this a decade ago too

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Samsung did this a decade ago though.

Cool. But then you have to buy and deal with a Samsung.

[–] 46_and_2@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

And it's only on their premium phones.

[–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Didn’t canonical try this years ago?

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago

Hopefully this means I can have a GraphineOS laptop (whenever google makes a new Pixel Laptop)

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I used to think the idea of a phone that is also my desktop would be really cool. But then I got to thinking just how locked down iOS and to a lesser extent Android are compared to Linux/Windows/MacOS, and decided I wouldn't use my Pixel as a replacement for my desktop or laptop even if the feature was there.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And they chose to highlight as a feature making it like a pC, “you also get Windows PC–like abilities such as snapping windows to the left and right of the screen.”

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Reminds me of just a few months ago when they sold the Samsung Galaxy S20-something using all the features that come with either Google Gemini 1.5-2.0 or Android 15. All features that my phone has. Nothing unique but the homegrown app store nobody likes

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