Smartphones can take on the roles of many other gadgets—cameras, calculators, e-readers, dictaphones, and all the rest—and they can also do double duty as webcams. In fact, this functionality is now built into both Android and iOS, so it’s easier than ever to use a phone as a webcam when it’s connected to your computer. …
Smartphones could soon be webcams on Windows too (symbolic image, image: Apple) Attention Windows users: your own smartphone could soon be used as a webcam on a PC, which in most cases is likely to be a very strong webcam. A corresponding function is to be rolled out soon. With Microsoft Phone Link, Microsoft provides …
Screenshot: Microsoft Android users might soon be able to turn their smartphones into a webcam for their PCs via Microsoft’s Link to Windows app, according to Android Authority. “Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI Unlocked Some background for folks who need it. Microsoft Phone Link, formerly Your Phone, is Microsoft’s phone emulator, …
Microsoft’s Phone Link software may take a page from Apple’s playbook and let people use their Android smartphone as a webcam for their PC. Android Authority performed a teardown on Phone Link’s Android companion app, ‘Link to Windows.’ App teardowns like this glean insight into upcoming features by studying snippets of code within the app. However, …
Oppo smartphones will soon work better with PCs and laptops running on Microsoft’s Windows 11 and Windows 10 operating systems, thanks to the addition of support for Phone Link and Link to Windows. At the recently concluded 2023 Oppo Developers Conference, both companies announced that support for the two apps was coming to Oppo, OnePlus, …