How to turn your Pixel phone into a PC - with the new Android Desktop Mode - ZDNET

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Tech > Services & Software > Operating Systems > Mobile OS > Android I test drove the new Android Desktop Mode with my Pixel, and it genuinely wowed me. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. More than a decade ago, Canonical was working on what it called “desktop convergence.” The idea was to combine a mobile device with a desktop device to create something far more useful. Back then, it was a quaint idea with amazing possibilities. Now, however, it has even more compelling implications. According to Pew Research, 98% of Americans own a smartphone. That same report concludes that at least 16% of Americans are “smartphone-only” users. In other words, one in six Americans owns neither a desktop nor a laptop computer and depends solely on their phone for online activity, productivity, and entertainment. Also: How to turn your old Android phone or iPhone into a security camera – in 4 easy steps That’s an important figure. And as someone who’s attempted — as an experiment — to do without a desktop computer, I find it the smartphone-only approach to be

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