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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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[–] 20 points 8 months ago (6 children)

What is an android PC? Is that like a boat car?

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    All phones are PCs, this is just connecting external displays.

    The shock is that it couldn't already.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Mobile devices tend to be much less versatile than PCs, mind you, and on purpose, due to one of Steve Jobs' most misguided apprehensions, that it'd be a good idea to hide the filesystem from the user. (Cue someone somehow claiming that's Good Actually in three, two, one...)

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It's more than just that, it's too slow a desktop OS like environment that's more suited for mouse and keyboard too. It's not just your phone screen on a bigger screen.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I guess the point is that phone hardware has been powerful enough to do it for a while. It's surprising that no big companies other than Samsung really put any effort into making it work software wise.

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