Subj : Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
To   : Nightfox
From : Tracker1
Date : Fri Sep 03 2021 06:58 pm

On 7/20/2021 7:52 PM, Nightfox wrote:
>> Windows 11 has that too (works with Android, dunno about iOS). Of
>> course, I've been using Google Voice, since it was Grand Central
>> before Google bought them, so using my phone and desktop is pretty
>> much been it... though I've also experienced every pain of Google's
>> schizophrenic approach to chat applications.
>
> That's cool.  I heard Windows 11 is supposed to be able to run Android
> apps.

Yeah, apparently the feature will be post-release (October 5th) though.
 I haven't seen/tried it on insiders though.

> I had a Samsung phone not too long ago, and they had some software for
> Windows PCs that would let you control your phone from your PC.  It
> would show the phone's screen on your PC and you could interact with
> it using that software.  I thought it was interesting.

Some Samsung (and other) phones actually have a hub/desktop mode where
you can use a usb3 dock and get a desktop experience, that seems kind of
cool too.  Hadn't seen the mirroring.

The win11 integration, I haven't used much and it's a little annoying to me.
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