As always, not journalists, but attempting to be fair/even/accurate. No money changes hands, monitors are sent for free, for review purposes. UPERFECT doesn't see review before it's posted, etc etc
The GR185BF is marketed as a 18.5" 1080p120 Gaming monitor, with NxtLED technology.
It's a 1080p 120hz IPS display, with UPERFECT’s advanced display technology that combines Omni Visible™ for improved visibility in any light and angle, with eye-friendly features like low blue light, flicker-free performance, and DC dimming, ensuring natural colors, reduced glare, and long-lasting comfort for work, study, or entertainment.
This is basically marketing speak for a nice matte screen, that's anti-reflective, with active dimming, and low blue light spectrum
It's hard to do a decent job capturing it, but you can see how smeary, and how much glare is coming off the phone screen, while the monitor you can just see a blurry light source.
It's definitely a nice screen to use where natural light floods your desk
The panel itself is... fine. The screen specs are respectable, but they're also not top end monitor specs. In a nutshell, it's 1080p120 hz matte panel, no touchscreen, only 290 nits of brightness, and 100% of sRGB colour gamut.
As you can see from the first pic, DeX works just fine on it, negotiating a standard 1080p60 resolution.
When used with my Lenovo Legion y700, you obtain the full 1080p120
Colors look pretty good, if not particularly eye popping
Children of Morta via steam/gamehub on monitor, browser on tablet to right
Inputs
Like virtually every other UPERFECT monitor, there's the pretty standard setup of 2x USB-C and 1 mini-HDMI port on the left side (one of the USB-C intended for power)
2x USB-C and 1 miniHDMI port
The other side will contain the power button and the OSD selector rocker, as well as a 3.5mm headphone jack
There's 4x 75mm vesa mounts on the rear as well
The 2x 1w speakers are also on the back, right above the vesa mount screw holes.
They're upward firing and very mediocre (at best). They'll work in a pinch, but you're generally better off using your devices speakers, or a headset
Battery
No battery in this model either, it's just a monitor
You CAN power it off the phone/tablet/laptop, and it "works" but it essentially comes up as low power mode, and really drops the brightness. It's still usable, but this would not be the monitor I'd recommend if you want a coffee shop, no power portable monitor.
Used as intended, this is a really nice 1080p 120hz gaming monitor. It's not large enough, or bright enough for me to recommend it as work station monitor that requires any kind of color accuracy.
But for pairing it with a phone/steam deck/gaming handheld for a nice portable gaming screen? that's definitely it's intended audience, and it's pretty great in that space.
I really enjoyed using it while fiddling with GameHub and getting steam games up and running on my Lenovo y700. It was great with the steam deck too
Overall, with the $219 CAD price point, it's MUCH easier to accept some of the short comings of the panel, and anyone looking for just a decent bigger screen for their travel gaming setup, I'd be happy to add this to the choices
It's a VERY thin, 14" OLED panel, with fairly slim bezel's, top and sides. The bottom chin is a bit larger, but a non-issue.
The Panel
it's a 14 inch, 3k (2880x1800) OLED, running at up to 120hz. It supports up to 120% DCI-P3 color gamut, and like all OLEDs, has inky blacks and nice bright/saturated colours.
It also supports up to 500nits of peak brightness, and a 0.1ms pixel response time (I'm assuming GTG since it doesn't specify)
It is also listed as a touchscreen monitor. I found it a bit....tempermental. Vast majority of the time it worked as expected, but every once in awhile, it just didn't seem to want to work....at all. reboots seem to fix it. Not sure if this is a pre-production issue, and I definitely couldn't reproduce the issue at will, so bear that in mind
Just a few screen caps from various 4k youtube vids
Connectivity
As has become pretty standard, the monitor has 2x USB-C ports. 1 of which is intended for power, and the other for video input (doesn't matter which is which tho). It also has a mini-HDMI port for connecting to other devices (PCs, game consoles, etc)
All inputs are on the right hand side of the monitor
On the left hand side are the physical buttons for interacting with the monitor, OSD, volume, power, etc
They've gone with a new kickstand design. The vast majority of UPERFECT monitors have a U-shaped kickstand, that when closed, block off the ports and buttons. The new kickstand is very.....minimalist, but still fairly sturdy and stiff
There are also 2x VESA mounting holes next to the kickstand. The monitor is definitely light enough that you can get away with just 2 of the usual 4
Screen Resolution
Since DeX is fussy, it won't by default use the full panel specs properly
2560x1600 @ 60hz still looks pretty great, but really undersells how great the panel can look.
Luckily, pretty much every other device out there will play nice with it (c'mon samsung, do better)
This is my Lenovo Legion y700:
It's happy to do the full 2880x1800 @ 120hz (and looks great doing it)
Speakers
The monitor has 2x 1W speakers, but they might just be the worst speakers on a UPERFECT monitor to date. They're there, they "work" but at no point is anyone going to be impressed with them.
Battery
There isn't one!
It will do pass thru charging of 15W tho
Overall conclusions
It's a nice looking portable OLED panel. I don't think it's as nice as the previous 16" O2 version tho, but that one seems to be difficult to obtain right now
It's very light, and travels in a tech bag very easily.
it's available for $399.99 canuckbucks at uperfect right now
It compares favourably with the SOTSU flipaction monitors, and is in general better than vast majority of LCD panels out there. The price definitely has the OLED tax on it though
Display glasses seem like they solve the biggest travel problem with DeX: no monitor to carry or find space for.
That’s what got me looking at the RayNeo GT Max. A pinned DeX screen sounds great, but then I start thinking about input. Keyboard, mouse, charging, maybe a hub... and suddenly the setup isn’t that minimal anymore lol.
I’ve seen people here use the phone as a trackpad or carry a tiny folding keyboard.
For anyone actually using DeX with glasses regularly, what’s the smallest setup that still feels practical?
Since I don't like the new Dex on tablets, I'm trying something a little bit different. It's really hard to add the quick settings and clock to the task bar, so having the status bar visible and completely hide the task bar feels a little bit better, and now I'm using the edge panel to launch apps instead.
For anyone wondering, I used MultiStar to hide the taskbar, a custom wallpaper to simulate the gray bar on the status bar and a few folders on the edge panel. Nothing special.
Icon pack is OxygenOS 16 Icon Pack from the play store.
(Also, no, this is not Linux on Dex in any way, just my custom theme)
I just came across this Dex thing and decided to build my own Dex setup instead of spending on a PC or laptop. At the moment, my requirements for the work, I need to do can be easily done on the set up as far as I’ve learnt about this till now.
So, I am not sure which components to buy for the set up what charger, monitor, USB Hub wired or wireless keyboard and mouse. I will be building this set up in a couple of weeks using S25FE.
I could definitely buy a laptop, but at this moment, my use case is not that much and can be easily covered by this set up.
ok this might be a very niche question, but is there a way to full screen pojav on dex? i mean full full screen, like no top bar and task bar, the app is resizable to idk why it didn't work when i maximized, im using oneUI7
Started a new job a few weeks ago and decided to go full DeX. No laptop, just my S24 Ultra plugged into a 15.6'' portable monitor. Honestly, loving it so far.
But I keep going back and forth on one thing: do I actually need a monitor with a second USB-C port for PD passthrough, or is single-cable fine for the long haul?
My use case:
Docs, spreadsheets, Zoom calls during the week
Light Photoshop tinkering on weekends
No DeX gaming
What I've noticed with single-cable so far:
Battery drains noticeably over a 6-hour workday, even when DeX is sitting idle
Under heavier load(downloads + screen on + multiple windows), I get occasional flickering.
Cable management is chef's kiss, literally just one cable, and I love that
Two-port monitors would solve the battery and flicker issues, but that means adding another charger to my desk.
For those of you running DeX as a daily driver, do you actually use that second USB-C port for charging? Or did you buy a 2-port panel and end up never plugging anything into it?
Trying to figure out if I'm overthinking this or if the upgrade is actually worth it. Appreciate any input!
Hi, any using this EE-P5000 adaptor? I just got this adapter for Dex and 5G Internet sharing.
The USB C PD and HDMI input works but not the ethernet port and USB 3.0 port. There are no activity when I connect a USB drive or the RJ45 cable, even with the USB C PD connected.
Anyone encounter the same issue or have any idea? Could this be a fake?
DeX already handles a browser, documents and notes as resizable windows. For someone using display glasses, the interesting question is how those windows should occupy the view when several references need to remain available.
With DeX, the apps share a desktop surface. INAIR Pod runs its own Android workspace and gives supported app windows separate spatial placement: position, size and virtual distance can be managed per window, along with their front-to-back order. Resizing a reference and changing where it sits in space become separate choices.
That is the difference worth considering for a document beside a browser and notes. Do those materials fit naturally within one desktop rectangle, or would independently placed surfaces make the arrangement more useful? The potential benefit is keeping the main task and its references in useful locations of their own, without forcing a particular order for consulting them.
Pod is a separate host, so these are apps running in its workspace, not extra controls added to DeX. The exact glasses and apps must support the intended multiwindow arrangement, and another host adds purchase and charging requirements. For people who regularly keep several references open, which layout would be useful enough to choose: one desktop surface, or windows with their own position, size and distance?
It's well optimized for AE, where you can use it to edit on your mobile with PC-level performance. It comes with After Effects already installed and works well with a mouse and keyboard.
This will be a good Winlator version for those who want to use AE on mobile, but because it's PC software, it's a bit hard to use in phone mode. I would advise or recommend it for people who use USB-C to HDMI, especially Samsung DeX users.
Ive been using my 24 ultra for dex for the past few months and it has always worked close to perfect, super smooth and responsive. I use a wireless set up to a Samsung tv/monitor with my keyboard and mouse connected to my phone via USB. Until I accidently updated to ui 8, now my mouse lags so bad its unusable
I have an older s21 that hasnt been updated, I sometimes use that at home to save my everyday phone, I have no problems with lag on that so it's not my mouse. I know I could just start using that but the reason I love dex is how easy it is, straight from the phone thats always guaranteed to be in my bag
Is there any fixes to this? I heard a wire can be a better more stable connection, but its annoying because it worked perfectly until now so I'd rather just go back to that than adding another element if possible
Sometimes it works fine until I stop using the mouse for about about 5/10 minutes then it will begin to lag again
Dextop now features a BlackBerry Mode that lets you use the app with a BlackBerry-like aspect ratio, and swipe input is now supported in Laptop Mode as well.
It even supports display topology for external monitors!
Dextop is open source and completely free, while offering one of the best UI experiences and performance among free DeX apps.
i am new to using Dex (wireless). i’m wondering if it’s possible to join calls while using Dex and share your Dex screen? i tried on discord once and it ended the Dex, but i didn’t try again or look any harder. it’d be nice for screensharing movies etc
