I got a DeX Station for my S8, as the official ones are really cheap on eBay now. Plugged into my Dell monitor & bluetooth keyboard and mouse, it's a surprisin

I got a DeX Station for my S8, as the official ones are really cheap on eBay now. Plugged into my Dell monitor & bluetooth keyboard and mouse, it's a surprisingly good desktop experience. It feels like the direction Apple might be heading with Marzipan too - imagine if there was an iPhone dock that let you run iPhone apps just like desktop apps, like an alternative to a MacMini. The DeX Station has a built in USB port, and the big surprise for me was that you can plug in an external USB hard drive (and with the right software you can access Windows NTFS & Mac HFS drives), and it even works with my Focusrite 2i2 audio interface. Once I plug in the Focusrite, suddenly my phone can play music over my JBL studio monitors. (I haven't had a chance to test if I can record phantom powered microphones at 24-bit 96kHz with it, but I've seen blog posts suggesting that should be possible too.)