Maybe once a word to my problem. I am traveling a lot and have really always my phone there, but no desire to lug the heavy laptop. So what I wanted is an option to my Galaxy S3 on TV to use as a PC. Clearly, I need a way to view the image from S3 to bring on the TV and a USB host port on S3 so I etc Game Controller, Keyboard / Mouse, USB flash drives can connect to the phone. There is also the docking station can all wired connection. Unfortunately, my S3 neither then (Otterbox Commuter Case) fit today (Zero Lemon 7000mAh battery) in this, since it is intended for unprotected phones without Case.
Now there are from Samsung but also a microUSB to HDMI adapter cable (for image to TV) and a USB OTG cable (USB host port). Sorry but you can connect only one of them to the S3.
So I opted for the USB OTG cable in combination with the AllShare Cast Dongle because I etc so my USB hub with keyboard via OTG cable can connect directly to the S3 and then just to the image by radio via the dongle the TV projeziere if that does not work together wired.
Target were 3 things:
1) Surf by mouse / keyboard as usual on the PC
Watch 2) videos on a large screen
3. abusing) phone via emulators and game pads as game console
Really happy you will but with none of the 3 things.
As written here many times one has the FullHD TV with the S3 no FullHD. It has 1-to-1 the image on the TV, what you have on the small mobile screen. The emphasis is on the "1-to-1". If your 4x4 icons on the homescreen you on the phone display 12cm, giving a good size, then you have on the TV and 4x4 icons just hold on 120cm diagonal and each icon size of a beer mat.
That's how I find very strange and eerie wasted space. So when I connect my laptop to the TV, then I've got 16x10 icons and not 4x4. So is surfing not very exhilarating because everything is somehow quite cramped, although the works amazingly well with the keyboard and mouse operation, for the Android has been designed exclusively for touch screens. I do not know who has everything multiple monitors on Windows of you on the PC, but the AllShare Cast Dongle I would have rather "extend desktop" setting instead a "Destop cloning" desired. A working environment that is designed for tiny displays, they ought not really something on large displays, even if the resolution is the same.
Watching movies on the S3 I found not so great. FullHD I need for video yes garnicht because I would always look hardly anything that is stored in FullHD. But nerves do the artifacts, which occur when the image is compressed from S3 before sending to the TV. Has someone a DivX video seen where the compression was set too high and everywhere have formed square artifacts where the image had to change quickly? The same one has ever when dongle. Photos can watch it right, because you have a static image, but woe to scroll once through the homescreens. Then the whole picture is one large artifact and is again only half a second after stopping sharp. The turbid then very fun, especially in action movies with lots of frantic camera movements. Gelegendlich can sometimes the connection between dongle and S3 demolish what really goes on his nerves, because you totally is then made the film out, until the compound has re-initialized.
As a game console, the phone with the dongle is not usable. Although Android is reflected back model, since even run the Noname gamepads Plug & Play, but thanks to the image compression from the dongle you have a permanent slight delay. When watching videos, this does not matter, but if you want to second daddeln a few arcade games, then so is a permamenter was right on my nerves, where a significant time passes before doing something on the TV after the game pad has pressed a button. You have to practically react with the gamepad on something before it took place on the TV.
Conclusion:
It has the same image from your phone display, faded and somehow inappropriately scaled properly only with lags and artifacts.
I feel like a portable wireless HDD + Bluetooth Mouse / Keyboard / Gamepad + USB to HDMI adapter cable would have been a better idea, as long as the image is not compressed there.
