Dell Mobile Connect Brings Your Android and iOS Calls, Messages and Notifications to PCs

All-24-hour interval connectivity is fast-turning indispensable, and PC-makers are taking annotation.

After the wave of 'Always-on' PCs that were appear at the CES 2018 over the past few days, Dell has now come with a new software that promises to allow users to view incoming notifications and respond to calls and texts right from their Windows reckoner.

Called "Mobile Connect", the app allows you to pair a Dell or Alienware Windows PC with iOS and Android devices.

Dell Mobile Connect Brings Your Android and iOS Calls, Messages and Notifications to PCs

The feature sounds like to Apple'southward Handoff feature that connects Macbooks and iPhones, but it will be interesting to come across whether it will be equally seamless equally the Apple software. Dell says Mobile Connect will exist included on near of its new PCs this twelvemonth, including the next-gen XPS, Inspiron and Vostro lineups. Fifty-fifty the gaming-axial Alienware devices are expected to get the feature going forward, although, there are split up apps for the brand.

Some of the features of Mobile Connect are already built into Windows 10 with 'Continue on PC', but Dell is attempting to make the whole procedure a chip easier for the non-too-tech-savvy. The technology will use a mixture of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for the transfer of data from smartphones to PCs using screen mirroring. While it will work perfectly with Android devices, the functionality on iPhones could exist a scrap limited because of the inherent restrictions Apple imposes on Bluetooth usage.

While Dell claims that telephony features volition work fine with iPhones and iPads in spite of all the arbitrary iOS restrictions, it's third-party app back up that volition be defective. Which means, unlike Android users, iPhone users won't exist getting notifications from WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook and Uber etc.