This is Android 16’s desktop mode – a little broken, but the start of something good [Gallery]

https://9to5google.com/2025/06/10/android-16-desktop-mode-first-look/

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Ilandar@lemm.ee · 27 pts · 1y
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Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y

They are going to play around with it for a bit, but they will abandon the system once it does get 12 quadrillion MAUs in the first quarter of release.

ikidd@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y

This will be dead in 18 months. Don't bother even thinking about it.

SplashJackson@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

So this is a chromebook, right?

DemBoSain@midwest.social · 2 pts · 1y

I use this to mirror my android screen to Windows right now. It works well. You can mirror the screen, specify a specific app to run... Very versatile.

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I remember DEX and it lasted a couple months before being killed. I even remember Motorolas Atrix. Wonder how many months this will last.

Avg@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I'm pretty sure DEX lasted multiple phone generations.

ArchEngel@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Yeah, I can confirm, my S21 and I were doing some web dev on vacation just a few months ago.

Welp_im_damned@lemdro.id · 6 pts · 1y

Dex is still a thing, and one UI 8 version of dex is being built upon this version of android desktop.

baduhai@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y

Dex is still around, and still getting updates too.

cosmicrookie@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

You spelled "bad" wrong

rimu@piefed.social · -2 pts · 1y (8 replies)

It'll be interesting to see how many phones have the GPU necessary to push that many pixels around. I'm guessing not many.

Beacon@fedia.io · 24 pts · 1y

Most phone screens have the same or more pixels than most computer monitors

Ilandar@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y (3 replies)
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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I vaguely recall a desktop mode phone around 2012. Not sure if it was DeX, may have been.

Welp_im_damned@lemdro.id · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

You're thinking of Motorola Atrix.

Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 1y

Ah, thank you.

moody@lemmings.world · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)

My Pixel 6a has a resolution of 2400x1080. On its own, that's more than the 1080p that most people use these days. And it's not a particularly high resolution for a phone.

piccolo@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

Mine has the same resolution, but also 120hz refresh rate /shrug

Renohren@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y

Pixel 10 are set get quite powerful GPUs with raytracing etc