A flexible USB Type-C monitor with plenty of ports, the Philips 258B6QUEB is a great all-rounder for home and office users
With more and more laptops and smartphones opting for reversible USB Type-C connections, you’d think there would be more monitors catering for this type of port. After all, aside from its superfast data-transfer speeds, USB Type-C is also capable of outputting video, making it ripe for extending your new laptop’s display to a second screen, or displaying media from your smartphone.
It also gives you the option of attaching a USB Type-C dock and adding even more connections to your monitor without having dozens of cables strewn across your desk.
The Philips 258B6QUEB, however, is first USB Type-C monitor to arrive in the Expert Reviews offices, and it might just be the most flexible monitor I’ve ever seen. In addition to that all-important USB Type-C port, it can turn its hand to just about anything.
It comes with your standard HDMI, DisplayPort, dual-link DVI and VGA inputs as well as a trio of standard USB 3 ports. One of the latter happens to support “fast charging”, although it’s only 1W, so don’t expect smartphone charge times to rival a dedicated wall adapter. There’s also a headphone jack and 3.5mm audio input, plus a pair of 2W integrated speakers to round everything out. The only thing missing is a second USB Type-C port to enable ongoing daisy-chaining of other USB Type-C peripherals.
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