Become a PC

Like Motorola and Microsoft, Samsung is also trying to turn its mobile phone into a fully functional computer for use. The recently released Galaxy S8 has a bunch of new accessories for its use, DeX is one of them. The combination of DeX and DeX can form a light office environment. The DeX base looks like a candlestick, which can output images through HDMI interface. In addition, there are two USB interfaces, which can connect keyboard and mouse. The expansion performance is very good. There is also a cooling fan in the DeX base, which can help heat the S8 when outputting images. The power supply of the base is also through the USB-C interface.

After connecting DeX, Galaxy S8 and the keyboard and mouse of the display, an application menu will appear on the side of the screen. In this mode, notification message reading and resizable App interfaces are supported. The entire interface looks very similar to Chrome OS, but does not support desktop browsers. In fact, there are many limitations in this desktop mode. The usability of an app depends entirely on how well developers optimize the large screen. At present, most apps in Google Play Store are not optimized specifically for this purpose. Samsung's own browser, Microsoft's Office applications and Adobe's mobile applications can be perfectly adapted to the DeX base mode, But some other apps are just simple and rude amplification.

When the base is connected, the S8 iris scanner can also be used to unlock the desktop mode. This product is also specially designed for some specific people, such as business people who always need light work, but it cannot be used to replace laptops.

Make a wonderful shot

The new Gear 360 looks like a mushroom. Compared with the previous generation of products, it has a fixed handle. This new 360 ° panoramic camera seems to be born for taking selfies. At the bottom of the fuselage, a fixed interface can still be found, and a ring of rubber material is wrapped around it to make it more secure.

This new Gear 360 can shoot true 4K video with a resolution of 4096 x 2160, and can also carry out live streaming media with a resolution of 2K. The previous generation's shooting level does not reach 4K and does not support live streaming media.

The better

Motion sensing handles are usually seen on high-end VR devices, but rarely on mobile VR headsets, because without a camera, it is difficult to do a good job of motion tracking. However, Google is a pioneer. Daydream last year was equipped with a handle, and now Samsung and Oculus have developed a handle for Gear VR, It will also be released together with S8 on April 21. It will be sold together with Gear VR for 129 dollars, or 39 dollars if purchased separately. Oculus said that there will be 20 games that will be adapted to it when the controller is released.

The external design of this handle is very similar to that on Daystream. It has a tracking sensor built in, a round touchpad on the top, menu keys and volume keys on the bottom, and a trigger button on the handle. It should be fun for some gunfight games.

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