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Your Snapdragon phone is finally ready to be your laptop, too

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Android phones now have more potential than ever before to fulfill the needs of someone who wants a phone and laptop in one device.

More devices now support display output over USB, plus desktop-style interfaces, plus serious leaps in performance.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite has advanced enough to match or even surpass those slowpokes.

Some device makers already have apps and platforms that allow their phones to shift their operating systems into “desktop mode” when docked.

Samsung DeX is one of the best examples, but it’s only available on its flagship and upper-tier devices.

For devices with these features, really the only thing to wait for is newer devices with the newer Snapdragon 8 Elite chips.