I'm a big fan of Dex on my Fold 4. I have a little USB C hub and use my Fold instead of a desktop quite often. Adds another form factor to the equation. The hub allows me to charge at the same time so bonus. As others have said, some apps don't function well but that's only a few in my case. Not an issue all things considered. Don't let perfection get in the way of good enough. Dex is certainly good enough to use.
I had a monitor with a USB-C already set up and had the thought "hmmmm...I wonder if I can stream a football game from my phone to the monitor." I plugged it in and got the desktop experience immediately. Completely blew my mind, I didn't know this was a feature. Don't know why it's not advertised more, it's amazing.
I use dex with my s22 ultra because im living at two places at once, having to haul my pc around is tough, i got a little dex station going that costed me a little over $120 CAD and it works well for daily productivity. Great feature makes me not miss my iphone 13 pm
I've been using my fold 3 with just the large screen as my monitor as my main "pc" replacement for months now. Working out just great! Increasingly becoming less relevant to own an actual computer these days. I can do just about the same everything from the fold 3 as I was able to do on my pc.
works really good on fold 5 i use it at least 8 hours a day and the phone never goes above 34 degrees, i can have 6 apps running at same time and it works really good even games also it runs really well obviously not the same as windows but its pretty cool
It is insane that we are coming into an era where literally our computers are pocket sized. You could argue that smartphones were already there, but not like this. This is the bridge to it. And that 1.8g price tag is proof of it.
They probably won't because it's been getting updates every 3 or so months now and every other company including Apple are now trying to add DEX like features to their stuff but Samsung is years ahead of them. So it'll probably be here to stay.
if dex goes away, so will me and my household. i started with Note10 then fold2, then tab S8+. then got my wife S21 now S23. gonna get Fold5 next. all because I'm sticking with Dex.
Dex is such a great utility application it would be foolish of Samsung to remove it ever. While a proper desktop or laptop still has a greater processing power, dex, and consequently the Z Fold series, are giving these types of devices a run for its money. Apple has their thing, but... Ehhhh
Thank you for this. I use this on my Tab S7+ more often than the default view as well. It's very useful, and is faster than me pulling my laptop out. I find it even more useful than a Chromebook and an iPad. Credits to you and Thao for showing the masses how to use this.
@@nileshmundkar1120 If you wanna keep your mouse and keyboard connected with cable you will need a dongle, like the one shown in the video. Those dongles usually includes an USB A for peripherals, an HDMI port and a USB C for charging
I successfully completed a week of work on an S22 and S20, using VPN, remote desktop, i was able to access specific applications that were installed on a work PC or server as well as network share drives. and for game streaming it works quite well with xCloud or Moonlight or GeForceNOW. I've had really hit and miss adapter/dongles to support higher than 1080p resolution. I found an older Samsung Dex Dock & Dex Pad, and both work really well and have Gigabit ethernet and 2 USB ports and HDMI out. no super ultrawide support sadly, so no 32:9 or 32:10, just stretches a 21:9 or 16:9 resolution. *one thing I'd like to see/try is on Lenovo professional monitors, they have a DisplayPort daisy chaining, where 1 input can be used for 2 displays. one DP to the device, and the monitors have an out and input to daisy chain, I'm super curious to see if that could work.
While it couldn’t REPLACE my laptop, as I actually need to run macOS for certain tasks with my work, I’d be more than willing to run Windows and Linux Virtual Machines if necessary and use this as my laptop otherwise, especially with a device like the Nexdock or a companion laptop for typing.
Hello, can dex still be use if the fold 4 is folded? I'm planing to buy a second hand fold 4 cheap because only the front screen is working and not the unfolded screen.
hanced upon this channel while browsing on the Fold 4 productivity use cases. Was looking at maximising this new awesome device I recently bought! Already it could handle the updating of documents, emailing and also slide deck well! Am gonna try to see how often i would not take the laptop out of my bag. That day of leaving home without my laptop and just me and my Fold 4 would hopefully will come true very soon!!!
so quick to discount dex on a laptop. you may not use it and that's fine. But telling people its useless just means you aren't trying because there are good use cases for it
Ikr. I know people who use DeX on PC all the time. The reality is that most people use Windows as primary OS and DeX for PC allows the flexibility to use Android in a Windows laptop without the need of using software emulators that can take a significant chunck of your laptop performance.
Nice. I had a note 9 and tried Dex and liked it. Where is the link to the USB C adapter you referenced in the video? And how are you propping up the phone? Looks like the older Dex phone holder?
Sorry, I just added the link to the description. I’m using the Samsung wireless charger to prop up the phone. It will charge the phone and hold it up while using DEX
I use Dex with laptop and desktops very often. The reason is that it offers me continuity when i unplug and plug into each machine. I can borrow a laptop from a friend and it gives me peace when I unplug and know I leave nothing on his device. I also use Dex with my own laptop and desktop and never leave the important files outside my phone (except when I back up to my Hdd)
@@MrGatya2 No you can't, you have to install Dex on windows, that's sthe drawback. However, if you connect directly to Monitor, it doesn't need additional softwware
Will it activate 4k with this usb hub "without power" ? I used to try dex 2 years ago and i remember that at that time 4k needed a hub with PD to activate 4k on a TV.
Don't use your bigger screen for dex, it's an expensive little oled screen which will get oled burns with time. I'd use it with screen off or maybe the front screen.
I'd gladly switch DEX for a SIMPLE WAY of transferring photos between Samsung & PC. Integrated, without quality loss and without 10 steps each time. Is that so impossible to do !?
Yeah, it essentially works the same. The hub connects your device to a monitor and holds the phone in place. It’s nice that the hub has usb ports but you could still do most with just the cable
It's my computer for work (regular office work) and leisure since 2019. The best approach is to see it as a Chromebook. The benefits of comvergence are amazing. Your work, your files, are always with you, even in the streets. In your pocket. Plugin a monitor, keyboard and mouse and your workstation is on. Great even for security reazons. With OneUI 5 / Android13 the experience ia better, more polished and a much better (and "desktopier") taskbar.
I don't own a Z Fold4, but I've been using DeX from my Note8. I'll be totally honest here: it doesn't completely replace my Windows machine at all. There's so many limitations for Android as a desktop OS. Even Microsoft Office for Andorid have limited features compared to the Windows equivalent. Of course there are cloud virtualization options exist, but they all required monthly or yearly subscription and fast stable internet in the first place. By the time you spend your money for one or two years of cloud virtualization softwares, you have more than enough money to buy a new Windows laptop with at least Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 CPU. If there's one area I definitely value DeX a lot, it's when I'm travelling light without my Windows machine. I just bring a portable monitor or a lapdock, and I have a makeshift tablet. It couldn't have been better to have such a useful flexibility
There are several free apps that do everything Microsoft office does. Samsung even made their own back in the day that where free on their play store. When saving the document you just make it a compatible format for Office, then you can move the documents back and forth. At least that's what I did the few times I had to work on documents at work and home. Don't pay Microsoft a subscription fee. It's theft.
It can't replace your computer. It's just a screen mirroring app that fits to the bigger screen. I was fooled by videos like this into buying the best flagship but I was very disappointed after I found that this is just a screen mirroring app and nothing else.
NO! Because there is no clipboard. Because scrolling-up refreshes the page, and you lose all your edits. Because it does not recognize the "num pad" on a full-size keyboard.
I have everything you miss on my S10 DEX. I use External Keyboard Helper for my keyboard, and I press NumLock for the numpad numbers. And you can use CTRL+C in every DEX.
I use DeX with my Note 8, and it never replace my existing Windows PC. For all the capability of DeX, it's still Android at heart and you can't even run GNU Linux desktop softwares at all. You have to use something like Andronix for it.
No, it won’t replace your computer. If you can afford a fold you should already have a laptop. Dex is a gimmick just like the spen. No one really uses either.
That is a good point, but I do know a lot of people that don’t use a laptop or computer and really their only device is a smartphone. I think DEX could be useful for some that want to be able to do more on a larger screen
Replaced my laptop last year and I have the shadow PC app on my phone so I can run PC games and pc programs through dex or on the go I run shadow in landscape on my fold 4 and have a folding keyboard, folding phone stand ,and slim mouse all in a sling bag .
I use my fold3 as my only computer. I'm a math professor. It's a absolutly great.
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I'm a big fan of Dex on my Fold 4. I have a little USB C hub and use my Fold instead of a desktop quite often. Adds another form factor to the equation. The hub allows me to charge at the same time so bonus. As others have said, some apps don't function well but that's only a few in my case. Not an issue all things considered. Don't let perfection get in the way of good enough. Dex is certainly good enough to use.
I had a monitor with a USB-C already set up and had the thought "hmmmm...I wonder if I can stream a football game from my phone to the monitor." I plugged it in and got the desktop experience immediately. Completely blew my mind, I didn't know this was a feature. Don't know why it's not advertised more, it's amazing.
I use dex with my s22 ultra because im living at two places at once, having to haul my pc around is tough, i got a little dex station going that costed me a little over $120 CAD and it works well for daily productivity. Great feature makes me not miss my iphone 13 pm
I've been using my fold 3 with just the large screen as my monitor as my main "pc" replacement for months now. Working out just great! Increasingly becoming less relevant to own an actual computer these days. I can do just about the same everything from the fold 3 as I was able to do on my pc.
Yeah I feel like that may be the case for many
During work, I hook up my Fold 3 to my montior. Dex is very underatted. PSA VMWare works natively with Dex, for virtual machine users.
works really good on fold 5 i use it at least 8 hours a day and the phone never goes above 34 degrees, i can have 6 apps running at same time and it works really good even games also it runs really well obviously not the same as windows but its pretty cool
It is insane that we are coming into an era where literally our computers are pocket sized. You could argue that smartphones were already there, but not like this. This is the bridge to it. And that 1.8g price tag is proof of it.
I've been using DEX for 3 months now. I don't even use my laptop anymore. It's wild.
I use dex all the times & I hope samsung don't take this away
They probably won't because it's been getting updates every 3 or so months now and every other company including Apple are now trying to add DEX like features to their stuff but Samsung is years ahead of them. So it'll probably be here to stay.
if dex goes away, so will me and my household.
i started with Note10 then fold2, then tab S8+. then got my wife S21 now S23. gonna get Fold5 next. all because I'm sticking with Dex.
Dex is such a great utility application it would be foolish of Samsung to remove it ever. While a proper desktop or laptop still has a greater processing power, dex, and consequently the Z Fold series, are giving these types of devices a run for its money. Apple has their thing, but... Ehhhh
This is the dream. A tablet the becomes a phone that becomes a desktop.
I've been using this to play Marvel Snap on the big screen....so productive lol
Thank you for this. I use this on my Tab S7+ more often than the default view as well. It's very useful, and is faster than me pulling my laptop out. I find it even more useful than a Chromebook and an iPad.
Credits to you and Thao for showing the masses how to use this.
Hello, i also have a Samsung S7+ and one monitor.can you please guide me to connect them?
@@nileshmundkar1120 Sure. Do you have a USB-C to HDMI cable? You have to use that to connect your tab.
@@diwaalejandrogalvez796 no. i dont have this cable.also the only usb-c prot of tablet is occupied by keyboard +Mouse.what will i need in this case?
@@nileshmundkar1120 If you wanna keep your mouse and keyboard connected with cable you will need a dongle, like the one shown in the video. Those dongles usually includes an USB A for peripherals, an HDMI port and a USB C for charging
I successfully completed a week of work on an S22 and S20, using VPN, remote desktop, i was able to access specific applications that were installed on a work PC or server as well as network share drives.
and for game streaming it works quite well with xCloud or Moonlight or GeForceNOW.
I've had really hit and miss adapter/dongles to support higher than 1080p resolution. I found an older Samsung Dex Dock & Dex Pad, and both work really well and have Gigabit ethernet and 2 USB ports and HDMI out.
no super ultrawide support sadly, so no 32:9 or 32:10, just stretches a 21:9 or 16:9 resolution.
*one thing I'd like to see/try is on Lenovo professional monitors, they have a DisplayPort daisy chaining, where 1 input can be used for 2 displays. one DP to the device, and the monitors have an out and input to daisy chain, I'm super curious to see if that could work.
While it couldn’t REPLACE my laptop, as I actually need to run macOS for certain tasks with my work, I’d be more than willing to run Windows and Linux Virtual Machines if necessary and use this as my laptop otherwise, especially with a device like the Nexdock or a companion laptop for typing.
Hello, can dex still be use if the fold 4 is folded? I'm planing to buy a second hand fold 4 cheap because only the front screen is working and not the unfolded screen.
hanced upon this channel while browsing on the Fold 4 productivity use cases. Was looking at maximising this new awesome device I recently bought! Already it could handle the updating of documents, emailing and also slide deck well! Am gonna try to see how often i would not take the laptop out of my bag. That day of leaving home without my laptop and just me and my Fold 4 would hopefully will come true very soon!!!
You can actually use Dex wirelessly so you can charge your phone while using it as a desktop with your mouse and kb
Get you some Xreal AR glasses, ....game changer... Thank me later
so quick to discount dex on a laptop. you may not use it and that's fine. But telling people its useless just means you aren't trying because there are good use cases for it
Ikr. I know people who use DeX on PC all the time. The reality is that most people use Windows as primary OS and DeX for PC allows the flexibility to use Android in a Windows laptop without the need of using software emulators that can take a significant chunck of your laptop performance.
Nice. I had a note 9 and tried Dex and liked it. Where is the link to the USB C adapter you referenced in the video? And how are you propping up the phone? Looks like the older Dex phone holder?
Sorry, I just added the link to the description. I’m using the Samsung wireless charger to prop up the phone. It will charge the phone and hold it up while using DEX
So underrated but awesome and useful feature
I use Dex with laptop and desktops very often. The reason is that it offers me continuity when i unplug and plug into each machine. I can borrow a laptop from a friend and it gives me peace when I unplug and know I leave nothing on his device. I also use Dex with my own laptop and desktop and never leave the important files outside my phone (except when I back up to my Hdd)
Can you screen dex to the laptop without installing an app on the laptop?
@@MrGatya2 No you can't, you have to install Dex on windows, that's sthe drawback. However, if you connect directly to Monitor, it doesn't need additional softwware
I want the wallpaper pls
Cool features. Definitely underated. To have a full flex screen mode into a monitor is actually a high technology
Fold 4 must be have tablet features like Dex, why not Samsung give tablet like Dex features in Z fold 4?
If you have an issue with not finding PC apps you can always download Shadow PC I game on there
Hi, can you shut down your phone directly in Dex without touching the phone?
i mean what could my celeron 4gb systeme do better? i think switching to samsung dex would be a better idea
I can wireless Samsung Dex and it's smooth as well.
Multi audio output😡like on Windows 11, dex is kinda lame
Will it activate 4k with this usb hub "without power" ?
I used to try dex 2 years ago and i remember that at that time 4k needed a hub with PD to activate 4k on a TV.
Exactly 😊☺️ I was saying to my self wtf is going on ..yeah
So how to use microsoft office specially Excel.
what is the latest keyboard and mouse you guys used and hub
Computer kis liyeah use hota hai nahi pata..? Zfold replace your coomputer... sense nahi hai kya ? tech channel khol ta hai
install a linux on it and it feels much better
Samsung used to did it before with Linux on DeX. Unfortunately, Samsung scrapped it since Android 10.
@@FAT8893 there a new way of doing it now, not the same but close. Proot distro
Great video. Thank you.
I will definitely get the Fold 6 this year. I want to have a Phone, Tablet, and a computer in my pocket.
It will be good if the mouse point movement is set at the bottom.
Thank you a perfect and clear explanation. Well done!!!
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Thanks bro!
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Yes very helpful, I do use it as a computer.
having a issue when i connect my zfold to my monitor via HDMI it doesn't go full screen on my monitor
Could be the resolution setting on the DEX setting menu. You might need to just adjust it.
Nice if microsoft 365 was the full version not mobile version
There's always one
Don't use your bigger screen for dex, it's an expensive little oled screen which will get oled burns with time. I'd use it with screen off or maybe the front screen.
I'd gladly switch DEX for a SIMPLE WAY of transferring photos between Samsung & PC.
Integrated, without quality loss and without 10 steps each time. Is that so impossible to do !?
how many external monitors can i hook up? just 1 or 2?
One for now but the last update has some hints that they probably will have multi screen within the year.
can we add some extension chrome in samsung dex browser?
Kiwi Browser let's you add Chrome extensions to it.
You think I could achieve the same with just a usb-c to hdmi cable, instead of the hub?
Yeah, it essentially works the same. The hub connects your device to a monitor and holds the phone in place. It’s nice that the hub has usb ports but you could still do most with just the cable
This is nuts … I’m getting one bye bye iPhone 📱
and its on any S series device, not just the fold. so as old as the S8
What wallpaper is that?
looks like google os
Yes it can...
JW!! nice!
Can it charge, say on a wireless charger, at the same time as using Dex?
Yeah that’s what I did
Just be careful. My phone s9 used to get super hot running dex while charging
Does the phone have MHL support?
All Samsung phone that has DeX has MHL/HDMI ALT support.
@@FAT8893 technically not MHL, but DP alt mode from S8. S5 had MHL
It's my computer for work (regular office work) and leisure since 2019. The best approach is to see it as a Chromebook.
The benefits of comvergence are amazing. Your work, your files, are always with you, even in the streets. In your pocket. Plugin a monitor, keyboard and mouse and your workstation is on. Great even for security reazons.
With OneUI 5 / Android13 the experience ia better, more polished and a much better (and "desktopier") taskbar.
I don't own a Z Fold4, but I've been using DeX from my Note8. I'll be totally honest here: it doesn't completely replace my Windows machine at all. There's so many limitations for Android as a desktop OS. Even Microsoft Office for Andorid have limited features compared to the Windows equivalent. Of course there are cloud virtualization options exist, but they all required monthly or yearly subscription and fast stable internet in the first place. By the time you spend your money for one or two years of cloud virtualization softwares, you have more than enough money to buy a new Windows laptop with at least Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 CPU.
If there's one area I definitely value DeX a lot, it's when I'm travelling light without my Windows machine. I just bring a portable monitor or a lapdock, and I have a makeshift tablet. It couldn't have been better to have such a useful flexibility
There are several free apps that do everything Microsoft office does. Samsung even made their own back in the day that where free on their play store. When saving the document you just make it a compatible format for Office, then you can move the documents back and forth. At least that's what I did the few times I had to work on documents at work and home. Don't pay Microsoft a subscription fee. It's theft.
Unfortunately my fold 4 Dex doesn't work with Xbox Series X when my fold 3 could!🤷♂️ I did notice it was different versions. I hope they fix it!
It can't replace your computer. It's just a screen mirroring app that fits to the bigger screen. I was fooled by videos like this into buying the best flagship but I was very disappointed after I found that this is just a screen mirroring app and nothing else.
NO!
Because there is no clipboard.
Because scrolling-up refreshes the page, and you lose all your edits.
Because it does not recognize the "num pad" on a full-size keyboard.
I have everything you miss on my S10 DEX. I use External Keyboard Helper for my keyboard, and I press NumLock for the numpad numbers. And you can use CTRL+C in every DEX.
I still can't use every one of my apps on it so until I can it sucks lol
I use DeX with my Note 8, and it never replace my existing Windows PC. For all the capability of DeX, it's still Android at heart and you can't even run GNU Linux desktop softwares at all. You have to use something like Andronix for it.
Dex sucks. It only runs apps
I think you've missed the whole point 👈🏼
No, it won’t replace your computer. If you can afford a fold you should already have a laptop. Dex is a gimmick just like the spen. No one really uses either.
That is a good point, but I do know a lot of people that don’t use a laptop or computer and really their only device is a smartphone. I think DEX could be useful for some that want to be able to do more on a larger screen
Ha, you sound like a Apple fan boy who's hating. Dex is amazing and the S-Pen is no gimmick.
@@TheoFennel definitely sounds like the guy is trolling lol.
Replaced my laptop last year and I have the shadow PC app on my phone so I can run PC games and pc programs through dex or on the go I run shadow in landscape on my fold 4 and have a folding keyboard, folding phone stand ,and slim mouse all in a sling bag .
Apple fan boy LOL
It looks a lot like Ubuntu desktop.