TL;DR
- A new dongle dubbed Auto Pro X permits Galaxy gadget house owners to make use of Dex mode on their car screens.
- This permits you to make use of apps that aren’t supported by way of Android Auto, or to make use of your car screen as a PC of types.
- The new gadget has already been absolutely funded on Kickstarter to the tune of $64,000, far surpassing its modest $5,000 purpose.
One of the promoting factors of Samsung telephones is the Dex mode, providing a PC-like interface when you join your cellphone to an exterior show. Now, a new gadget guarantees to carry this expertise to your car’s show.
Auto Pro X is a $199 dongle that enables house owners of Galaxy gadgets to wirelessly use Dex mode on their car screens (h/t: Auto Evolution). That means you can get a laptop-like expertise on your car’s show. Getting began appears simple, as you plug the dongle into your car’s USB port, faucet the “Dex” choice in your Galaxy gadget’s fast settings menu, and that’s it.
Auto Pro X producer Mayton explains that the primary benefit of this strategy over Android Auto is that much more apps can be utilized on your car show. So unsupported streaming apps and video games ought to work right here (together with wi-fi gamepads). However, the PC-like UI means you’ve bought a lot smaller icons right here. So this won’t be the best resolution when you’re truly driving and wish to make use of the screen.
The firm additionally factors to the productiveness benefits of this strategy, as you may use your automotive screen as a laptop computer when paired with a keyboard and mouse. I’m unsure that is going to be anybody’s first alternative for getting work carried out on the go, but it surely may very well be a good backup choice if you’re on the highway quite a bit.
The excellent news is that Auto Pro X has already been absolutely funded on Kickstarter, blowing previous its $5,000 purpose and at the moment sitting on over $64,000. The gadget has a daily value of $199 and an early fowl value of $140, with deliveries going down from June. This isn’t the corporate’s first automotive dongle, both, as the unique Auto Pro supplied wi-fi Android Auto help and apparently offered over 200,000 items. So this doesn’t appear to be a fly-by-night firm.