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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by sourcecodeplz on Monday March 02, 2026 @05:16AM (#47216004)
What do you mean desktop mode? I though only Samsung Android phones had that, called Samsung DeX.
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by noisem4ker on Monday March 02, 2026 @05:52AM (#47216300)
The first-party desktop mode that was introduced in Android 16 last year.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/06/developer-...

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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by esperent on Monday March 02, 2026 @10:05AM (#47218893)
A lot of phones, including latest flagships, don't support this, unfortunately.
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by strcat on Monday March 02, 2026 @07:31AM (#47217178)
GrapheneOS has hardware-based virtualization on the Pixel 6 and later along with DisplayPort alternate mode on the Pixel 8 and later. It has the standard Android 16 QPR2 desktop mode and Terminal VM management app capable of running GUI applications for other operating systems. We could even add Windows support, but we have much higher priorities for the foreseeable future.
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by hocuspocus on Monday March 02, 2026 @07:31AM (#47217183)
Most mid to high-end ranges from Android OEMs have a DisplayPort video output and basic keyboard plus mouse support. Pixels were late to the party, but it's been there for a long time otherwise.

The functionality used to be really barebones outside of Samsung DeX. Now it's a bit better since it's officially supported by Google.

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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by trashb on Monday March 02, 2026 @06:22AM (#47216544)
Motorolla has had a similar desktop experience for a while. For example my Moto G100 has this feature since 2021. It actually works quite good, I really liked that your touchscreen turns into a mousepad in these modes.

I believe it is called "Motorolla Ready For" the marketing is not great (a bit confusing name if you ask me).

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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by codethief on Monday March 02, 2026 @05:18AM (#47216017)
Android 16 introduced desktop mode.
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