Revamped Samsung DeX Pad Leaks as Galaxy S9 Unveiling Draws Near

Samsung's Galaxy S9 and S9+ both are scheduled to exist announced on Feb 25 at MWC 2018. Just similar every year, these flagships are expected to arrive with a agglomeration of new accessories including an updated DeX Pad. While we take been speculating about this upgraded accompaniment for quite some time at present, today we got our start look at it.

The printing renders accept surfaced for Samsung's DeX Pad accompaniment, and it looks nothing last year'southward DeX station. Earlier nosotros talk almost this new accessory, if you don't know what DeX station is, it lets you dock your Milky way phone and connect it to an external monitor and other peripherals. So substantially, it uses your smartphone to run a desktop-like environment.

The new DeX Pad will replace the DeX Station that was launched alongside the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus last twelvemonth, and it volition work a little scrap differently. Unlike last year's version, the new one will allow the phone to lay flat on its back instead of sitting upright. The reason for this is so that the telephone'south display tin be used every bit a touchpad or mouse when the Pad is in employ. Aye, the idea is more or less similar what Razer did with the Projection Linda laptop dock.

Revamped Samsung DeX Pad Leaks as Galaxy S9 Unveiling Draws Near

Digging deep into the printing renders, you can also run across the ports on the DeX Pad. At that place are two USB Type-A ports, also as i USB Type-C port, and 1 HDMI out port. The USB A ports can be used to plug-in either the mouse or keyboard, whereas the HDMI port can be used to connect a monitor. The USB C port looks to be for plugging the DeX Pad into a power source.

Every bit you see, the telephone volition connect to USB Type-C port. Although it is not entirely clear, it looks like the DeX Pad also has air vents for heat dissipation and cheers to the rubber piece that sits along the elevation edge, the telephone will be slightly raised from the surface.

That beingness said, the new DeX Pad looks a lot more interesting than what we saw last year. It is also expected that the new DeX Pad volition piece of work with the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus, and Galaxy Annotation 8 as well, since all of them employ a USB Type-C port for charging and data transfer. Still, information technology is still very early to judge the capabilities of this device since information technology hasn't officially released nevertheless.