One of our favorite features on the best Samsung phones is DeX, which lets you plug your smartphone into a monitor and use it like a desktop. Now Google's cooking up its own version, with the latest beta build of Android 16 offering a peek at Google's new Android Desktop mode that functions similarly.
Rumors have been swirling since last March that Google's been working on a system to let users run ChromeOS from a Pixel smartphone and onto an external monitor, but now we have a first glimpse at what that will look like. Android Authority was able to manually enable Desktop Mode under developer options on a Google Pixel 8 Pro running the latest Android 16 beta.
