Bear in mind it will solely be future devices which are supported. They're being developed and aren't launched yet.
replyAny chance of having a finger print scanner on the back of the phone?
replyI personally really dislike the screen ones. They're slower, less reliable and the location is unnatural.
Mine (really cheap G05) has it on the power button, much better than the back where it used to be on older models. Motorola have been innovative with the UX. It lights up when I pick it up, shake twice to toggle flashlight (extremely useful when looking for dog poop) and so on. Only brand I've considered for about a decade.
replyUnfortunately many Motorola phones (even flagship) do NOT do video out.
replythe MOTOROLA ATRIX [1] paired with its Ubuntu lapdock [2] ... from 15 years ago (2011) would like to disagree!
replyCountering "most Motorola phones don't support video out" by going back a decade and a half to find a single example is not the argument-ending line you seem to think it is
replyChill dude, I think they were being a little glib
replyWhat do you mean desktop mode? I though only Samsung Android phones had that, called Samsung DeX.
replyGrapheneOS 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.
replyThe first-party desktop mode that was introduced in Android 16 last year.
replyhttps://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/06/developer-...
A lot of phones, including latest flagships, don't support this, unfortunately.
replyMotorolla 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.
replyI believe it is called "Motorolla Ready For" the marketing is not great (a bit confusing name if you ask me).
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.
replyThe functionality used to be really barebones outside of Samsung DeX. Now it's a bit better since it's officially supported by Google.
Android 16 introduced desktop mode.
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