Exciting moving forward, hopefully it leads to display port being standard on Android
That said, when I plug my Sony into a dock with display port, it does forward my display… so is this actually new or new pixel?
It is new to Pixel. Unfortunately only a few (mostly expensive) phones have display support on the USB C port. For example the more expensive Samsung phones have it.
I used to use this feature a lot on my Samsung S5. Was super handy to just carry the adapter cable in my suitcase when staying at a hotel. Easy way to watch streams in my hotel room. Almost any TV in hotels has a free HDMI port to connect to.
I’m curious, what do you use desktop mode for?
Pure speculation on my part, but this could be a big part to replacing a Phone + Chromebook for computing and connectivity with just a Phone. This is a concept I really like.
There have been a few early attempts at this in past. The Asus Phonepad comes to mind.
With a setup like this you don’t need any kind off mobile hotspot, because the thing providing the hotspot would be the thing where you’re doing your computing.