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This USB-C dock connects your Galaxy S8 to a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
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Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" (Hachette/PublicAffairs), a non-fiction gaming and business history book that has earned rave reviews from the New York Times, Fortune, LA Review of Books, and many other publications.
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Samsung's new DeX dock wants to turn your Galaxy S8 phone into a desktop. It can access specially optimized versions of select Android apps in order to give you a full-screen experience that's surprisingly PC-like.
A handful of Android apps are already optimized for this desktop DeX view, including the default internet browser and Microsoft Office. That means you can run multiple apps at once and grab the corner of each window to resize, just like on a PC. Apps that are not DeX optimized will open in a phone-shaped window.
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