Having been embracing an iPad / iPhone only setup for a while now, things are going great. But in the never ending pursuit for minimalism and simplicity, I keep thinking, is there a better combo? Samsung DeX on the new Note / Galaxy phones is really tempting to me.. but why?
Having a single device, say the Note 10, with all your apps, accounts, internet history, passwords, wallet, your original photos, contacts and everything in between including pen support, making calls etc. Now, the iPhone and iPad have all this, and it's kept in sync very well with iCloud. So what I have now technically does the job. But, I need to maintain, charge, look after and periodically replace two devices.
This single phone can be used anywhere, anytime as a smartphone can be and is always connected. When I go home, rather than switching to the iPad or using iPad / iPhone at work instead of my work PC, I can simply run my phone and all of it's data in a virtual desktop, alongside my work-day tasks. Work life and personal life, both at full force, side by side in a way that doesn't involve messy, slow and data / power intensive syncing.
The benefits I can see are always having the ideal form factor, be it a comfortable desktop ergonomically sound space at work on the Windows PC with DeX connected, at home for doing serious tasks sitting down at my home monitor and in between, out and about as a 'phone', but lets face it 'phablet' due to the big, but pocketable size of the Note 10.
The drawbacks I can see are that it puts a lot of dependency on one device, what if it breaks? Samsung in the UK don't have stores or quite as wide reparability the same day as Apple stuff. I'm not sure if Android is stable enough or if DeX is stable and developed enough to be used as a single, core personal device, but as someone who is using iOS only atm, I think this is fine unless there are major drawbacks I'm over looking with DeX. Also, perhaps Android on these devices won't be supported very long, or Samsung will drop DeX any week unexpectedly.
Has anybody else had this notion or tried it, if so, what are your thoughts - would you ever do it?
Having a single device, say the Note 10, with all your apps, accounts, internet history, passwords, wallet, your original photos, contacts and everything in between including pen support, making calls etc. Now, the iPhone and iPad have all this, and it's kept in sync very well with iCloud. So what I have now technically does the job. But, I need to maintain, charge, look after and periodically replace two devices.
This single phone can be used anywhere, anytime as a smartphone can be and is always connected. When I go home, rather than switching to the iPad or using iPad / iPhone at work instead of my work PC, I can simply run my phone and all of it's data in a virtual desktop, alongside my work-day tasks. Work life and personal life, both at full force, side by side in a way that doesn't involve messy, slow and data / power intensive syncing.
The benefits I can see are always having the ideal form factor, be it a comfortable desktop ergonomically sound space at work on the Windows PC with DeX connected, at home for doing serious tasks sitting down at my home monitor and in between, out and about as a 'phone', but lets face it 'phablet' due to the big, but pocketable size of the Note 10.
The drawbacks I can see are that it puts a lot of dependency on one device, what if it breaks? Samsung in the UK don't have stores or quite as wide reparability the same day as Apple stuff. I'm not sure if Android is stable enough or if DeX is stable and developed enough to be used as a single, core personal device, but as someone who is using iOS only atm, I think this is fine unless there are major drawbacks I'm over looking with DeX. Also, perhaps Android on these devices won't be supported very long, or Samsung will drop DeX any week unexpectedly.
Has anybody else had this notion or tried it, if so, what are your thoughts - would you ever do it?
