In 2018, Dell launched its Mobile Connect App. With this app, you get the functionality of connecting your iPhone to your Windows laptop. Not only just connecting you can access and manage all your messages, emails, notification, and receive calls directly on your laptop. Recently Dell has announced that they are going to push a new update to the application in spring which adds the swipe transfer over wireless and screen mirroring functionality to the app. Earlier these two features were only available to android devices. But you will soon enjoy this functionality on your Apple device as well.
What Features will come with the Upcoming Update?
Talking as of now there are some limitations that this app has with respect to the iPhone devices. Like apart from managing iMessage on PC, notifications, and calls you really can’t do much. When compared to android it lacks major features. But the new update will bring all those features to the iPhone as well. Let’s talk briefly about them.
- Screen Mirroring Feature –
With the Screen mirroring feature you can mirror your iPhone screen to the laptop. This feature gives the same experience as you are using a phone-in hand. With easy navigation and interaction with all the apps, it provides great user experience and productivity. You can easily navigate through apps with keyboard and mouse. If you are having a touch display it will surely be cherry on the cake. It really comes in handy and looks great on a bigger screen when making notes, watching videos and going through photos.
- Wireless Drag & Drop –
With this feature, you can easily transfer your data from iPhone to laptop and vice versa. However, this feature is only limited to photos and videos only. You can wirelessly transfer these two things between the devices. As we are very well aware of the complication we have to go through if we don’t have a mac laptop. This feature will surely reduce the efforts and time in transferring our data faster and easier.
What makes it superior to IOS?
With all of the new implementation and features which dell is bringing to the mobile connect app is really appreciative. When you compare it with apples own implementation of device connecting it really fails to keep up. For starters, there is no notifications preview on MAC even when you are connected, no screen mirroring feature, no app interaction.
And it is really astonishing that a non-apple software is doing a far better job. Furthermore talking about the transferring of data. It becomes quite complicated when you try to exchange data between iPhone and Windows laptops. But dell mobile connect is really trying to reduce this gap and has got somewhat successful too. Talking about connectivity dell mobile connect supports Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi Bluetooth, LTE, & BLE.
Final Verdict:
Really it amazes when we see functionality that has only been seen on android devices. Watching it really feels like the impossible has been made possible by Dell. As an iPhone user who has a Windows laptop, it gives a break free feeling. We all are very well aware of Apple’s ecosystem. How they try to limit everything to their own devices. You can’t transfer and share files that easy. But with the Dell mobile connect it is really a breath of peace.
We hope this article is helpful. With this being the end of the article on Dell will Soon Let you interact with your iPhone Apps from your PC. We conclude that you should really try out the dell mobile connect app if you are an iPhone user as it the only app that is providing this much functionality.