Samsung DeX PC app available ahead of schedule, we take it for a spin

Last updated: Baronial 21st, 2019 at 16:05 UTC+01:00

When Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 10 series before this month, the company also revealed a major update to the DeX platform, among other features. With the new DeX PC app, Samsung will allow Note x users to connect their phones to a Windows PC or Mac via a USB cable and gain admission to the multitasking platform without requiring a video connection. The new DeX PC app is supposed to launch after the Galaxy Annotation 10 series, simply as discovered past XDA-Developers, the application is at present available for download from Samsung's website via a straight download link (for Windows) ahead of the scheduled release.

The fine print on the official Samsung DeX folio continues to suggest that the PC app is non yet available for download. However, it seems like customers can now get a caput beginning past grabbing the app through the aforementioned direct download link, then if you wish to gear up your computer for DeX before you'll pick up the Galaxy Note 10 or Notation x+ later this week, you can.

The DeX PC app is uniform merely with the Milky way Note 10 series. Information technology won't work with the Galaxy Notation 9 or Milky way S10 lineup (we've tried), merely the Galaxy S9 series and newer models could get this functionality with the Android Q and One UI ii.0 update. Having said that, right now you won't get much out of the new DeX app unless y'all have the latest Southward Pen flagship in your possession.

Nosotros've tried DeX with our Milky way Note 10+ review unit and Windows

Once y'all do get the Annotation x hooked upwards to your estimator via DeX, you'll be able to start transferring files, bank check text messages, accept phone calls, and more. There is a caveat, in that we were merely able to transfer files from the PC to the phone via DeX, but non the other fashion effectually. In other words, you can't simply drag a photo from your Notation x gallery and drop it onto your figurer's desktop. It simply won't work.

We've also tried a couple of mobile games, and it does seem like performance takes a visible hit sometimes. Not just the games themselves, just DeX as a whole seems to exist less responsive when running a demanding 3D app. We've tried Cobblestone ix and the animations were a bit jittery but the game was all the same very playable. Also worth noting is that Asphalt ix worked with a mouse and keyboard via DeX only didn't detect our Xbox controller. This doesn't look like a game-specific issue, but rather DeX doesn't seem to be capable of detecting controllers hooked upwardly to the computer. Nevertheless, you might gain a competitive edge in mobile games, equally long equally they work ameliorate with a mouse and keyboard.

It is worth reminding that the app is not notwithstanding quite officially launched, so compatibility with input devices and even functioning may change in the near time to come. Are yous excited virtually the new DeX PC application? Will you integrate information technology into your daily routine? Let usa know in the annotate section.