Through an upcoming update to Link to Windows, Samsung Galaxy smartphones will be able to lend their cameras to laptops and desktops in place of a traditional webcam.
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Laptops and tablets can do a lot of the same things, but ultimately they each have their own strengths. With its new ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid, though, Lenovo is putting together the best of both worlds by creating a machine that’s half Windows laptop and half an Android tablet.
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Acer is rolling out new laptops based on Intel Core Ultra including the Acer Swift X 14, a powerhouse PC with Intel Core Ultra, RTX 4070, a 120Hz OLED display, and more.
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Dell announced the next generation of XPS laptops for 2024, built with high-end materials and powered by high-end Intel Core Ultra chips made for AI.
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Microsoft is all-in on AI, and that’s now spearheaded by Copilot. Starting this year, Microsoft is adding a new key to Windows keyboards, with a dedicated key for launching Copilot.
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A new Samsung Phone app is available on the Windows Microsoft Store. This comes right before Samsung is set to release the Galaxy Book 4, a Windows PC series that has a reputation for playing best with the rest of Samsung’s ecosystem.
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Intel has today debuted its latest generation of mobile CPUs for Windows laptops and Chromebooks, with the Meteor Lake architecture arriving in new “Core Ultra” processors. Here’s what’s been improved, and the first machines arriving with the new chips.
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Microsoft has been building out its Phone Link tool for connecting Windows and Android together, and it seems it may soon support a new feature in streaming your phone’s camera to your computer.
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Link to Windows has been a useful tool for certain Android users that enables them to connect PCs and Windows laptops to their mobile Android devices. Now, Link to Windows is expanding to OnePlus, Oppo, and Realme phones.
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Microsoft is launching the “Windows app,” a new service that will stream the company’s full desktop OS to other devices from the cloud, including Chromebooks. However, regular users cannot try it out yet.
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What Microsoft was working on with Bing Chat has evolved into something much more – Windows Copilot. Copilot is an AI-powered virtual assistant, much like Google Assistant on the Pixel, except with LLM knowledge.
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Google’s Emoji Kitchen has recently expanded, allowing users on just about any device – iPhone, Android, Windows, macOS, and other devices or computers – access weird and unnatural emoji combinations that invoke pure joy.
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Several years ago voice assistants were the next big thing on our smartphones and other devices, and it led to four big options – Google Assistant, Apple’s Siri, Samsung’s Bixby, and Microsoft Cortana. Now, as generative AI takes the focus, Microsoft Cortana has come to an end.
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Following its launch earlier this year, Google is widely expanding the availability of Nearby Share for Windows PCs to nearly all countries around the globe.
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The Windows Subsystem for Android has been established as a strong foundation for developers to bring Android apps to the desktop OS. With the latest change, those apps are now able to bring Android’s picture-in-picture mode to Windows 11.
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One of the tools that I’ve always been a little envious of from Apple’s ecosystem has been AirDrop. While it’s not something I want to use constantly, being able to throw a file from my phone to my computer or vice versa is compelling. Now, that’s finally possible on Android and Windows, as Google has released Nearby Share for the Microsoft-owned platform, and it’s wonderful.
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Samsung has been pushing the idea of the Galaxy ecosystem over the past few years, building out features and new devices to let you get things done across every form factor. But where Apple has macOS to offer its customers a full experience on desktop and laptops, Samsung doesn’t have a full desktop OS of its own – DeX doesn’t count. With a suite of software on top of Windows 11, the Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 is a killer way to round out an ecosystem of Galaxy devices, and it also happens to be an excellent laptop on its own.
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Samsung is introducing a new batch of Windows-powered laptops alongside the Galaxy S23 series in its Galaxy Book 3 Pro and Galaxy Book 3 Ultra.
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The past couple of years have brought the arrival of some much-needed features on Android in the launch and fast expansion of Fast Pair and Nearby Share, but despite Google’s promise over a year ago, neither has arrived on Windows PCs, the company’s own Google TV platform, or even ChromeOS.
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If you’re still on an older Windows PC running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, Google might be giving you a big reason to finally upgrade. Starting in early 2023, Google Chrome will strip support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
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When it comes to an all-around solution to texting and sharing files between your phone and Windows computer, there isn’t one. Intel is aiming to fix that with a new Windows app called Unison that will be capable of sending texts and sharing files to and from your Android device or iPhone.
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Windows made a big move last year in onboarding the Amazon Appstore – a place to download Android apps onto your Windows machine. Since the release, Windows has expanded Amazon Appstore availability to over 20 regions and countries.
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Windows 11 brings support for Android apps to be natively installed on PCs, and with a new update, that feature is picking up some performance improvements and more.
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Windows 11 famously made it an exhaustive chore to change your default browser, but it has since eased up quite a lot. Now, Google Chrome is rolling out the ability to become your default browser on Windows with a single click.
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