

However, sometimes I had trouble dragging files from DeX to drop on my Mac’s desktop. Likewise, it was easy to drag a photo, or several photos, from Samsung’s Gallery phone app in DeX to my Mac’s desktop, where I could edit them on the big screen.


I dragged a Microsoft Word document from my Mac onto the DeX window and, later, back onto my phone, and then opened the file with the Android version of Word. It works on laptops, too.ĭata flows easily between the two environments. From there, you can run any mobile app to do whatever you do on your phone, including texting, web browsing, and Instagramming-all while using your full-size keyboard and mouse or trackpad. It looks a lot like a PC desktop rather than just a stretched version of your phone’s screen. As soon as you plug the Note into a computer, the companion DeX program pops up on your PC’s screen.
