I saw this App:
There is new functionality in android 2.2 (Froyo) that allows for Chrome to send links directly to the handset wirelessly, via the phone’s data plan care of your Google account, and automatically launch the links in the appropriate application. This is accomplished by installing the Chrome to Phone plugin for Chrome, and installing the Chrome to Phone app on your android 2.2 handset. What you end up with is a little icon next to your address bar in Chrome, once you click it, it sends the link to your phone and your phone launches the appropriate app. Currently Google Maps, YouTube and internet pages are supported.
Here is the QR Code to download the app directly to your phone.
Could we take it even further?
What if we had a way to share our Desktop, Laptop and Handset screens simultaneously? I think we can write an app for the phone that syncs the device with other machines in real time, via a user’s google account. We could have a ‘tray’ on each of our machines that we can drag things into, that automatically sends them over to the handset. It is similar to google’s new functionality in Gmail where you can drag attachments from your desktop into chrome and drop them into emails. You can also drag attachments out of emails and drop them onto your desktop.
This all requires the Chrome browser be installed… but what if we had a program on our windows machine that acts similar to Chrome and puts hotspots (the tray mentioned earlier) on the screen for us? You install the program and the app and configure both with security credentials so they recognize eachother. It would all be seamless, it wouldn’t ask you for confirmation or anything unless you tried to drag a file that was too big for your phone’s storage capacity or some other problem that may occur.
I am aware that this is an extension of my first blog post.
Can you give some examples of the benefit of sending links to the phone? Is it just that it’s faster to browse to a link on a desktop than it is on the phone?
I find myself sitting at my desktop computer, googling a good place to go eat, and pulling up the directions, then emailing them to myself to pull up on my phone. Instead i click ‘link’ and it produces a pastable link in my browser bar, instead of pasting it, i just click ‘send to phone’ and it instantly pops up in my Navigation, barking at me to turn right in 900 feet.
I have to admit that this is prettymuch my only use (although it is a biggie for me) for the app as it currently exists… but I really like the idea of extending the functionality to where I can begin to treat all of my daily-use electronics as a single platform (PC gets used for non-wow stuff about 5 hours each day, Laptop gets 8 hours of use, and the phone is prettymuch attached to everything in between)