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hello everyone welcome to another of my samsung galaxy note 2 videos
in this video i'm going to show you how to use the galaxy note 2 as a computer on
your desk
and i think it should work
excellent because
it has the split screen multitasking feature
that you really need to achieve that true pc functionality
so let's begin
so the first thing you're going to need is obviously galaxy note 2
and you will also need a power adapter i'll show you why
the power adapter is a required on this
HDMI MHL HDTV adapter and that's a mouthful by comes in the small
box and it's about 45 dollars
just want to know this is a 11pin MHL adapter
and the one's for the galaxy S 2 and the original note you'll need a
five to eleven pin convertive to work
so make sure
you buy the eleven pin adapt straight or if you have a five pin
one already buy the
eleven pin converter
so the power adapter actually plugs into
this micro usb jack in the back
and unfortunately because it requires the power
you're not able to plug in anything like the usb ltg
connected there
another thing is you going to need
htmi cable does htmi cable the other end is
already connected to my monitor behind me
I have a
monitor behind us
so i'm going to connect the
htmi cable into the adapter
also you're going to need to power this adapter
let's plug that into the power
we have it all powered up
last step is to plug in the
galaxy note 2
and then you should see
there was a message that popped up saying that
hdtv adapter was connected
and then
the next steps
you're going to need a bluetooth mouse and a bluetooth keyboard
so
i have a video separately showing you how to pair the usb keyboard
and the usb mouse
so if you need help with that make sure you watch those other videos
so let's fire the signup
i finished pairing my usb keyboard and usb mouse
you could see I have it connected with the mhl adaper there so let me show
you what it looks like on the monitor
as you can see it's seen landscape mode but it hasn't filter the screen
cuz the home screen
does not support landscape mode but that's what it looks like on the computer
but once i click on one of these
one of these apps here that supports landscape mode you could see
goes right
into landscape let me adjust lighting
a little bit
i've adjusted the lighting in my room. Let's actually take a
step back I'm going to restart the device
let's do a restart
restarts
as you could see a little splash screen there
shutdown screen again when i shut down my phone
but what's interesting is even though that reminds of you a lot like how your
computer
by booting up for the first time
you don't see it what is booting up you only see it when it's shutting down
I think it's a nice touch but i wish it had it when there was booting up
but it's understandable
all those features that the text that htmi is there it's not
enabled
so anyway
it also does something cool when
your booting up or when it sees
the mhl cable not just when it is booting up but when it sees the mhl
cable
and your on the landscape mode
and
when you had a tv connected
so let's wake the devices up when i wake up the keyboard
and then i'm going to wake up the mouse I just hit the space bar on the
keyboard and move a mouse around a little bit
to make it establish a connection
so i'm just going to click and drag
okay i think we're fully booted now so let's start up the internet
browser
and let's try to do stuff that
you would do it in front of your computer
so i'm going to start up multi-tasking by holding on the right mouse button
there you go
and then I scroll throw this list
let me show you what doesn't work
imagine you wanted to play a video
and
say you want to start up one of these videos
the interesting thing is it plays in fullscreen even though it's not full
screen on the phone
and i rather work around saying you can't disable hardware overlays in
that developer options
but that does not seem to work so if you have the solution to fix
this 'cause I actually like watching videos
when i'm working
on the computer and you could definitely do that if you are using a LCD monitor but
if you are
and it kinda does get in the way
but maybe another interesting thing here's interesting work around
see that
see my mouse point it there you could see
squeeze that down
and then make that tap disappear squeeze that down so you get the full
screen under video on the back and you could still work with most of the
screen
on the other side
but let's quit this video for now because it does not work with what we're
trying to do here
so let's actually open up
you have an email
and you have
the web browser open
let's go back up
so we're multitasking here you could sized these down
depending on
what you wanna work with
let me make that typo away by holding the right mouse button
and then
you could actually switch places
needs a little transition
say you wanted to work on full screen one of these just click on
that
just click on
just full-screens that you
clicked on that last
I'm kinda curious what happens if I hit the back button
interesting
and i think we have a bug
so i hit the back button hoping that it would revert back to you
my internet browser
gmail
but it went back to the video i was playing
and
that is a bug
definitely not working the way it should
let's put the
gmail back on there
put the right down in the middle
and unfortunately my mouse does not have
resizing capabilities
so i'm going to have to pinch on the touchscreen
let's see
everything still working great
let's see what happens when youtube video plays i wonder if that
hardway overlay problem will happen when we play youtube videos
and no problem in playing youtube videos
so that's a good thing
do you notice cutting off the screen a little bit I'm wondering
I need to zoom out a little bit more
now it doesn't
that's interesting
kinda get in the way of the screen here I'm just pointing all these out
if you are really or you get a good impression of
what it's like
what it really is like
before you invest in all these components
because
although the bluetooth mouse and keyboard is cheap
I thought the cable it seemed like was a bit expensive
so let's see
see that works well
let's see what if you wanted to work on like a
word document
say you wanted to have email open
your gmail open but you want to work on the word document
let's see what happens
so you will notice that i have all the major office suites installed here
but they're not on this list
that means that we are going to have to
just use it full screen and multitaskig will work
let's use a king soft office
i was just typing gibberish
just
just on my keyword
so let's try
let's remove all this
so i did
I held shift and then i hit down on the keyboard and that seems all
work
I'm testing the Samsung galaxy note 2
as if it
was a PC
PC
seems to type just fine
here's a one killer feature
only exclusive to king soft office you could
select on text
select text s do a click and drag with the
mouse
it's different
than for example
cannot click and drag
on the smartphone watch on the galaxy note 2
say you want to do click and drag it's not like your do it here
but here's a great feature in king soft office
click and drag
just click and drag and then
you could type over the text
let's see control+z works
control+z worked but the options are there already maybe easier to do
that's cool
let's just play with this
a little bit more
let's insert
actually here's one really important fact you gotta know
when you're using the bluetooth keyboard
actually
you see how
the keyboard pops up every time you click and then i actually hit the
right mouse button to get rid of this keyboard
you cannot disabled that on the bluetooth keyboard i had a video
up earlier showing that you can disable that with
no keyboard
wifi keyboard was another option on to say believe that
but it might work for a little while
but the bluetooth and
the samsung keyboard is connected somehow
when it doesn't see that you have samsung keyboard connected
it'll actually
take down you're bluetooth you gotta
disable it and renable it again
there's a big pain
just letting you know
if you have the usb keyboard with the p_g_ connector definitely not a
problem to use with
the no keyboard so that you don't get this annoying
thing that blocks pretty much entire screen
and you don't have to hit the back button but with the bluetooth
keyboard
you have to go through this steps and
i think it is
it is like a
bug
maybe like a feature
but it needs to be changed
by samsung so that
you don't have this annoying keyboard problem when we have thebluetooth keyboard
and mouse connected
anyway i just want to format some of these
or
put together a regular document with a title
galaxy
note 2
review
let's select it
and then i wanna format it
formatting options
these are formatting options
on center
wanna make this larger
to bold first
interesting
that is the center of the screen
let me see if i could zoom out on this
word document there
that's a lot better
okay and i wanna increase the size
looks good
hit the back button to get rid of that annoying keyboard
hit it again
it is great
except
that annoying
I'm going to make typing mistake on purpose
keyboard that
pops up
tooo
bad
i believe I saw some
spell check
samsung
too
you could double click on the word just like a computer
to highlight that word
double clicks
double clicks
interesting
let's close spellcheck
done
by
Michael Ma
interesting
I'm getting
it's weird I'm trying to do a scroll up and down with the scroll
actually it does not support it
kinda surprised
you could click and drag that's not really a problem
let's see what reader button does
puts in a full-screen mode
let's get out of full screen mode and let's save
save
wants me to choose where to save the file
this is my internal storage even though it's called SD card
it's my internal storage and this is my external storage
save it in the internal storage
just going to save it on the route that the internal storage
so
could give it a name
let's put
galaxy note 2
review
as a pc
you could encrypt but not gonna do that
see if you could choose docx
definitely you can
and it's saved
as a word processor
definitely take some getting used to and i think you could definitely nock out
couple of documents
but it does have that one annoying bug
with the keyboard and
it's not something you can't work around but
pretty annoying
I just want to go back on a little bit of something i said
remember i said
when you view
youtube videos it does not take up the entire screen
I was viewing a youtube video through the flash player
on the youtube web page
actually
you will have a problem with the youtube app
doing multi screen
let's launch the youtube app
say that you want to have
your email open
let's see on the bottom
as you can see i have the email app on the left
and the youtube app open on the right
well
that's not happening up here
grabbing this video stream and help putting three to
the monitor
remember we had a little work around we can just
size this down to really small
you can use most of your screen for
your other act and then
have the video play in the back
maybe i would actually want
that the other way around but does not work like that for example
if i chose that swap
does absolutely nothing
other than swapping
on the screen let's swap again
let's exit out of youtube app
so
let's go back to home screen
what else we might be able to do let's put facebook
get facebook started
gmail
or google maps
I think my
GPS off
turn it back on
so if you want to use mapping for some reason you could definitely
use
look something above while you're surfing on the map or while you're using facebook
so there you go i think it definitely
I'll make this conclusion
it definitely
isn't
a computer replacement
but if you're a light computer user and you use a computer for the
internet
facebook, youtube
it's actually better because it has the phone features as well right it has all
the information that you would have on the
galaxy note 2
it's limited in that
it will not run full version of
like adobe creative suite
or visual studio or even microsoft
office
it gets a lot of those features done
you could definitely
uses
to accomplish a lot of tasks
more tasks than
traditional smartphone or even like a
big size tablet
just because of the
multi-screen
features
and
i hope there's some work around once again if you guys can chime in
on what i can do with the video
only been speed on the monitor
some other problems we found out with the
keyboard
somebody can find a solution
which doesn't kill the bluetooth keyboard and mouse
once we
what's we enable something like no keyboard
okay so i just wanted to cover a couple of more things
so where this whole setup really shines is
when you're using the web browser and
to be honest i think it is the most important part of this experience
because
the web browser is pretty much where i personally spend most of my time
when I'm on the computer
whether it be
work or entertainment
everything's done throw the web now
it is important that this experience
works perfect and they pretty much nail down on the head
even flash work so i really can't ask more of it
if you wanted to do split screen multi web browsing
even that's possible because chrome
chrome is also supported on here
you could be running the stock browser and chrome also
but actually i prefer
i prefer the web browser than the stock browser
use that
for right now
that's enough good things about the web browsing experience pretty much a full
experience
let's see what else
I forgot to mention
i'm kind of string off the topic here
how on your phone you have this menu buttons here
here's one thing
in my current setup with the bluetooth mouse and the bluetooth keyboard that i have
have no way to access the menu button if there might be some mouses
or mice
that's being so that to have these
buttons backed but unfortunately that is not the case with the most in the blue
tooth keyboard that I have
even if you don't have it
I don't think it's really that big of a deal I don't really
navigate to that that often
I have my other hand free
I could always hit that menu button
on the phone
and things like setting you could access settings from here
right so
it's not a deal breaker
but it is kind of a bummer it's like a one missing link it
seems
so anyway the browsing is perfect and one last thing i want to
mention
is that
the brightness on here
the brightness on here
you should
turn that all the way down I know i had it up
just for this video
you should turn that all the way down because
that way your
device even though it's
technically trying to be charged
you will see
continue draining if you have it at hundred-percent
because this mhl cable
definitely uses a lot of power
you might also notice your phone getting pretty warm as well so just
keep that in mind
when we started we were at about 88% and you can see
it's 83% now
but I've done this
at the lowest bright setting
and it will hover around the same percentage so it won't
drain your battery
while you're doing
tvl or hdtvl
and if you
lock the screen
it's not going to
it's not going to
keep the screen on
if you turn off the screen
so just keep that in mind
i think
they definitely
try to make this future work
it still has a lot of room for improvement
it is still very useful and it's current form
so once again thank you for watching my videos
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people can get the most out of
their galaxy note 2
thank you for watching