I bought my Xtend Touch last year primarily to use with my Huawei P20 Pro phone, using their EMUI desktop mode, with a bluetooth keyboard. It resulted in a very pleasant and useful user experience. But last month I bought a new mobile, Google's Pixel 4A 5G and in all respects but one, am pleased with my choice. Unfortunately I didn't do enough research before purchase and didn't learn I can't use it with My Xtend Touch with resorting to the clunky Chromecast route. Is there an effective alternative solution other than using Chromecast?
I did some more research; it seems it does have the capability, but Google have deliberately disabled it, according to Androidpolice; "The Nexus 5 was the last of Google's phones to support video output over a wired connection (remember SlimPort?), but some have continued to hold out hope for the feature. While it doesn't come as much of a surprise that the Pixel 4 still doesn't support wired video output, one interesting fact about it has been discovered: it seems to be disabled in software. A commit has been found in the Android source code that disables DisplayPort over the USB Type-C port in the Pixel 4. The commit message simply reads, "Disable DP function."". Presumably a Google ploy to push sales of Chromecast!
To users, it's still not capable of output, no matter it is a hardware or software limitation. Just like their Chromecast with Google TV dongle that can't read NTFS/exFAT files, which is obviously a software limitation that they are not willing to fix. SAD.
