The UPerfect UDock X 15.6 Pro is a crazy-looking accessory that successfully turns your Dex-enabled Samsung phone into a large, 15.6″ laptop.
Samsung’s Dex desktop interface has been a unique selling point of high-end Galaxy phones for a number of years now, and while its beginnings were humble, it’s now very much become a full-featured experience. Even Google has taken note and is about to officially add a similar Desktop Mode to Android as standard.
For the uninitiated, Dex is a “desktop-style” interface, sort of like Windows or MacOS, which appears on screen when you connect certain Galaxy phones to an external monitor. This isn’t just a more appropriate way to show applications on a larger screen – Dex, or Android’s upcoming Desktop Mode, practically make your phone’s OS behave more like that of a PC.
For example, you can open more applications at once, and they all appear in windows that you can move around, minimize, maximize and resize freely. You can switch between windows/apps with alt+tab, just like on a desktop OS. Many apps, which support dual- or triple-pane interfaces, use them by default. Opening the desktop versions of websites in the browser looks and feels just like on a PC. In short, Samsung’s Dex means that your phone can easily transform into a full-blown desktop computer that can skyrocket your productivity.
And thanks to Samsung’s success in the mobile tech market, it’s even managed to spawn a bit of an ecosystem around Dex.
Sorry, we haven’t defined “lapdock” yet, have we?
In the common use case, you’d connect your Galaxy phone to an external monitor, keyboard and mouse, and while that’s all great, some very smart fellow out there decided that it might be even cooler if they put all three together. Turns out, the resulting device resembles a laptop, only without the smarts like a motherboard, CPU, GPU and so on. This is what a lapdock is: a laptop without the smarts – making it considerably cheaper.
