The Samsung DeX will turn the Galaxy S8 into a PC

Real-life photos of the Desktop Experience Station for the Samsung Galaxy S8 have leaked online via Winfuture.de, less than a week until the company’s latest flagship officially launches.

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The Desktop Experience Station, or DeX for short, is a dock that you put the Galaxy S8 or S8 Plus into, and for them to then act like a proper PC.

The dock doesn’t have wireless charging built-in unfortunately, but it does has a static USB Type-C port for you to insert into the phone. You’re then given two USB 2.0 ports, a 100 Mbps Ethernet port and an HDMI output that can power 4K monitors at up to 30 GPs.

As regular PCs have cooling fans, so too does the DeX dock, to make sure the Galaxy S8 doesn’t overheat. Samsung certainly doesn’t want a repeat of the Galaxy Note 7 debacle.

Winfuture.de has only obtained pictures of the dock itself, and not of it working with Galaxy S8 smartphone attached, so it’s still unclear exactly how the two will function together and how they will rival a traditional PC or laptop.

Considering the DeX station will cost €149.99, it could certainly prove to be a worthwhile accessory for the inbound flagship.

We’d expect Samsung to provide more details at the phone’s official launch next Wednesday the 29 March.