Subj : Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
To   : Nightfox
From : Tracker1
Date : Fri Sep 03 2021 18:58:59

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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