The Samsung Galaxy S8 will be released a week later on August 29, and various official accessories will be exposed one after another. In addition to the newly exposed official AKG headphones and mobile power supply, there is also a docking station/docking station called Dex Station. Put Galaxy S8/S8+connected to Expansion dock On the base, the latter is linked to the monitor, mouse and keyboard, which can be similar to the Microsoft Lumia mobile phone In the Continuum mode, the mobile phone is used as a "PC".

Interface: Expansion dock It provides two USB-A interfaces (the most common USB interface), one Type-C interface, and HDMI (maximum support 4K@30fps Output) and RJ45 network cable interface. The expansion dock also supports PD and Samsung's own AFC fast charging protocol. In addition, this docking station has its own cooling fan. The price is 149 euros, equivalent to 1115 yuan.

Desktop expansion of moto ME860 (pictures from the network)

Using mobile phones as computers is a long cherished wish of the IT industry many years ago. The most famous scheme of "modern times" originates from moto, the ME860 model of moto and other models supporting the expansion dock. The machine is loaded with both Ubuntu and Android systems. After accessing the expansion dock, you can run Ubuntu and let Android run in the window. After Ubuntu had its own mobile phone system, it also had a similar mobile phone PC solution.

Then comes the "Continuum" function of Windows 10 Mobile, which also supports external keyboard, mouse and display through the docking station, and also provides PC based interface adaptation. At the beginning of this year, Intel also gave its own demonstration machine, the prototype of SoFIA platform, which uses Atom x3 processor+2GB memory+16GB storage. After connecting the keyboard and mouse, it can run Linux system. The craziest thing is that a foreign manufacturer put the real X86 Win10 into a mobile phone.

But unfortunately, even in the generation of Lumia950/950XL, even the already powerful SoC like Snapdragon 810, when running the PC desktop, there is still a noticeable jam, and the use experience is indeed very different from the current PC.

In addition, the biggest factor preventing mobile phone from being PC based is software. Although the kernel of Windows 10 Mobile is the same as that of the desktop version of Windows 10, the most frequently used and most productive exe programs cannot be run on mobile phones. The problem of program compatibility is enough to kill any future system. The Surface RT and Windows 8 RT supporting ARM processors disappeared for this reason.

I wonder what kind of plan Samsung can offer this time?

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