2013年10月9日星期三

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Which isn’t even a software company, but the largest smartphone manufacturer — is increasingly differentiating itself in both hardware and software, and not just with Android anymore. The latest ATIV Book 9 line of laptops includes some very interesting software that makes connecting to an Android smartphone particularly fun and useful, and in ways that none of the software giants are attempting. And the best part is: no cables required.

There are two kinds of people: those who plug their buy cell phones cheap into their computers, and the other 79.5% of smartphone owners (read: Android users). Apple — and heck, even Microsoft — originally built their smartphones to connect and sync with computers via iTunes and Zune (nowWindows Phone). Although updates eventually untethered them, they still carry the legacy of PC syncing.
And then there’s Google, the dominant mobile OS provider that does everything through the cloud. They know that most people never plug their phones into anything except to charge them, so all syncing and storing should be automatic and wireless.The real secret sauce (and perhaps the $200 price premium) of the ATIV Book 9 Lite is it’s SideSync software, an application that enables Samsung Galaxy smartphone owners (Galaxy S II and up and Galaxy Note II and up) to connect their phones and laptops “seamlessly.” Let’s be clear, there’s nothing seamless about it.

The ATIV ships with the software but has to download another three or four pieces to be fully functional, and the buy cell phones cheap all require three apps too. The installation process on both the phone and laptop sides is slow, frustrating, and all too easy to mess up. And if you are one of the unlucky souls who owns an unlocked Galaxy phone without Samsung’s app store built in, then you can’t get any of the cool functions offered.

SideSync is a two-pronged app on both the laptop and smartphone (I used a Galaxy Note II) that lets users command the buy cell phones cheap via computer, specifically with the mouse and keyboard. That may not sound like much, but we’re using our smartphones more and more, even in front of a computer. If you’ve got the laptop and smartphone side by side, there’s no need to take your hands off the keyboard to respond to an SMS or switch out of your laptop application to check who used your favorite hashtag on Twitter. It makes the two devices work together, and it does a damn good job of it.

Of course, how useful this feature is will depend on how you use the buy cell phones cheap. I typically sit with my laptop front and center, smartphone docked on the right. Notifications come into the phone all With SideSync, and thanks to Android’s usability, you can do just about anything on the phone via your computer's mouse and keyboard (notable exceptions include selecting physical buttons and swipe gestures). It’s not only remarkably useful, but hard to stop using. Just like switching from two monitors to one makes you feel handicapped, losing a direct connection from your laptop to smartphone feels… hollow, like there’s now something missing.bf2DSs2d

The other half of SideSync is to show the smartphone screen right on the laptop, live. It’s probably kitschy and useless to most people, but I’ll be damned if it isn’t totally impressive to show a smartphone right from your laptop, on the slightly bigger screen. Macs can do this with a paid app (Reflector) and an iPhone, but that still requires you do everything from the phone. Show the phone in landscape or portrait, show any app, and control the whole thing with your mouse and keyboard with a mock phone straight from your screen. For smartphone developers it’s a godsend, for everyone else it’s just really cool.

Samsung’s other piece of software that only works on the company’s own i9300 mtk6577 smartphones and laptops is HomeSync, a partial syncing competitor to iTunes or Microsoft’s Windows Phone. Available as both a native app and via the web, it syncs all of your media between the phone and laptop and can do so wirelessly.Just look at Samsung's new Galaxy Note 3. The device is the latest in a line that brought big back into style -- and now, plus-sized phones are a category all their own. Lucky for Samsung, size isn't the only thing that sets the Note 3 apart.

The phone's S Pen stylus opens the door to some interesting and innovative ways of interacting with a smartphone -- and this latest model offers some meaningful improvements over its predecessors in both form and functionality. While the phone has plenty of attractive qualities, though, it also has some noteworthy downsides. So all considered, is it a buy cell phones cheap worth buying?

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