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It's not hard to understand the failure of the 'lapdock' in the mainstream market - as the usual objection to fiddling around with Continuum or DeX at all is 'just take a laptop with you'. What about taking Continuum or DeX on the road? In other words, a way of amplifying your phone screen and capabilities easily, but in an all-in-one 'laptop shell'? That's a cool geek concept and worked fairly well (if with some bugs) with HP's dock back in 2016, but that ended up prohibitively expensive and other third party docks have yet to arrive on the market, despite numerous show teasers and one significant pre-order (see below). The takeway is that the more you can have set-up, for example as part of a home or remote office that you arrive at and just plug in, the better. Much better to have the dock in the way, powering the HDMI and accessories, and also charging the phone at the same time. plugging the phone straight into the TV with a Type C to HDMI adapter, though you've then got the phone powering everything and driven quite hard, so you'll be losing battery power fairly quickly. You can do without the dock too, if you must, i.e. The idea is that you plug in the Type C cable and you're done. Now, you can strip this list right back if you must, using Bluetooth mouse and Bluetooth keyboard, or even using the phone display as your trackpad and input device, but in my experience an all-wired solution is best, with nothing to pair or set-up or micro-manage. a 1080p (or better) TV or monitor - I've been experimenting with 720p TVs and there's just too much downscaling and 'jaggies'.I've been using Microsoft's 'Display Dock', with Type C input, Type C charging, twin USB-A ports and HDMI out, but Samsung's DeX dock is pretty similar and both can be used interchangeably, thanks to the compatibility built into USB Type C generally. a Lumia 950/XL or HP Elite x3 or Alcatel IDOL 4 Pro/4S handset running Windows 10 Mobile OR a Samsung Galaxy flagship with DeX support built-in.The short answer is Yes, but not necessarily because DeX is 'better' than Continuum per se - it's more to do with the hardware powering the phone.