KiDiGi HDMI MHL Galaxy S4 & S3 Dock allows you to use your Smartphone as a Desktop PC with ease.

Turning your Android Smartphone into a PC of sorts is really easy and a fun weekend project, combined with a Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse or a Joystick and you can extend the power of your Smartphone in new ways.

With the Galaxy S4 you have more than enough power to play the best Android games and 60 fps on a big TV.

Use an MHL Dock with your Galaxy S4 or S3

Using a Smartphone like the Galaxy S4 as a PC is easy all you need to do is plug in the KiDiGi  MHL Dock to your TV or Monitor using an HDMI cable and then plug-in the Micro-usb adapter so it has power.

The benefit of this is the dock will also charge your Galaxy S4 while it’s sending a picture to your TV or Monitor.

One you have the dock wired up to your display device plug-in the galaxy S4 or S3 by placing it into the dock.

Check out this video that shows the process in action on our YouTube Channel

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You may need to push it down firmly but try not to move it too much as you do this as it can cause the Micro-usb adapter in the dock to flex.

Due to the way Samsung’s Auto-rotate option works you will be stuck in Portrait on your Display to solve this download an application called Rotation Locker it’s free and it will allow you to force Landscape for your output.

Once you have that done you can hook up a Bluetooth Keyboard and mouse or a Joystick via Bluetooth.

Android makes for a great Gaming system when hooked up to a large TV or monitor and if you want to get some work done using an app like Multi-window allows you to have a desktop like experience.

You may want to avoid running your Galaxy S4 display all the time as it lowers it’s life span so either turn the brightness right down to save the back-light or use an app that shuts down the display until you want to power it back on.

Alternative to MHL Docks

You can also use a simple cable like an MHL Adapter that will allow you to do all of the above but with a more cable management, in my opinion using an MHL dock with your Android device is so much easier and not a lot more expensive.

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