TL;DR
- A brand new dongle dubbed Auto Professional X permits Galaxy machine house owners to make use of Dex mode on their automotive screens.
- This lets you use apps that aren’t supported by way of Android Auto, or to make use of your automotive display screen as a PC of types.
- The brand new gadget has already been totally funded on Kickstarter to the tune of $64,000, far surpassing its modest $5,000 purpose.
One of many promoting factors of Samsung telephones is the Dex mode, providing a PC-like interface once you join your cellphone to an exterior show. Now, a brand new gadget guarantees to convey this expertise to your automotive’s show.
Auto Professional X is a $199 dongle that permits house owners of Galaxy gadgets to wirelessly use Dex mode on their automotive screens (h/t: Auto Evolution). Meaning you will get a laptop-like expertise in your automotive’s show. Getting began appears simple, as you plug the dongle into your automobile’s USB port, faucet the “Dex” possibility in your Galaxy machine’s fast settings menu, and that’s it.
Auto Professional X producer Mayton explains that the primary benefit of this method over Android Auto is that way more apps can be utilized in your automotive show. So unsupported streaming apps and video games ought to work right here (together with wi-fi gamepads). Nonetheless, the PC-like UI means you’ve obtained a lot smaller icons right here. So this may not be the best answer once you’re truly driving and wish to make use of the display screen.
The corporate additionally factors to the productiveness benefits of this method, as you would use your automotive display screen as a laptop computer when paired with a keyboard and mouse. I’m unsure that is going to be anybody’s first selection for getting work completed on the go, nevertheless it may very well be an honest backup possibility when you’re on the street quite a bit.
The excellent news is that Auto Professional X has already been totally funded on Kickstarter, blowing previous its $5,000 purpose and at present sitting on over $64,000. The machine has a daily worth of $199 and an early fowl worth of $140, with deliveries going down from June. This isn’t the corporate’s first automotive dongle, both, as the unique Auto Professional 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.
