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Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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This has been hidden in developer options for a while now, but they're now releasing it officially. Limited to Pixel 8 and newer devices and no 4k yet.

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[–] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Video out is frustratingly uncommon. Samsung, some Sony's, and only very recently Pixels. Google was vocally against video out for a long time. And SD cards (gotta pay for drive). You were expected to roll the dice with whether Chromecast works with a random TV and wifi combination.

Pixels were popular for two reasons: the camera and "basic black rectangle" device (RIP Nexus).

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Yeah, Chromecast has been kind of a disaster for Google imho, in that it never got widespread adoption in TVs. If they'd pushed an open standard they might've been able to get that over the finish-line and get buy-in from 3rd parties. But instead every smart TV and smart phone has its own video streaming approach, it seems.

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