Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “This Laptop’s Best Feature Is From 2011 (And It’s Awesome)”.
Get this. I wanted to take a break from phones for just a second to talk about a laptop, the one I’m using to record this intro.. But wouldn’t you know it? My favorite part about this laptop turned out to be how well it talks to phones. (, smooth electronic music ) Okay.
So this is the Huawei MateBook X, Pro 2019, and if you stuck with me through that name, you are not only a good sport, but you probably noticed that it sounds familiar. You’re right. It’S just a refresh of last year’s MateBook X, Pro from the small bezels to the hideaway webcam.. While there are material improvements to things like the processor options and the Thunderbolt port, the epicenter of my excitement is this little sticker.. No, not that one. This one. Sharing files directly between devices might seem like an antiquated or quant concept in our cloud-connected world..
Every time I talk about an OTG thumb drive that works with phones, or I complain about how hard it is to move files from an Android phone to an Apple computer. The comments section rises up to tell me that I should just be using the cloud for that. And, if you’re tempted, to say that right now, Let me tell you something: don’t. [, Michael ]. Look, I love the cloud.. I use it all the time., But sometimes there’s no substitute for just moving files, directly. Like when you’re on a train out of cellular range or on an airplane with the slowest WiFi imaginable, and you don’t want to get up to get your USB cable out of The overhead bin., You Apple users, already know how awesome direct sharing is. Apple’s AirDrop is one of the company’s best innovations ever..
It lets you move files from Mac to Mac and iPhone to Mac wirelessly with almost no setup. Now Huawei Share, which has been around for a couple generations, is basically a clone of that and the new MateBook takes it a step further with a service called OneHop.. Here’S how it works If you want to move a photo or a video from your phone to the MateBook, you bring up the file on your screen, tap the phone to the PC and that’s it., You’re done.. It instantly appears on your computer, so you can. Edit drop it into a presentation whatever.. If you want to move a photo in the other direction, you just reverse the process. Open it up on the computer, tap the phone boom.. If you don’t hae a photo open on either device, the tap will take a screenshot on the PC and then sent it to the phone., It’s kind of an edge case, but I could see it coming in handy once or twice.. Maybe the craziest part of this to me is: I first saw this kind of tap-to-share-feature promised eight years ago when HP announced its WebOS-powered TouchPad tablet and Pre 3 smartphone.
RIP., And to be fair, we’ve seen versions of this since for sharing between phones. Samsung Bump and Android Beam et cetera., But, as is often the case, the execution is what seals it. Huawei’s implementation is so smooth so fast with just the right about of chrome to the interface that it genuinely delights.
Me., That’s not something I get to say often about Huawei software.. I want this on every laptop., There’s more than just OneHop included in Huawei Share 3.0. When the phone is connected to the machine using PC Manager. You get this persistent notification on the phone and it lets you do things like remotely record your PC’s screen. If you want., You can also do a few things without tapping like remotely turn on your phone’s HotSpot or browse the gallery.
You’re, also supposed to be able to share clipboard contents between phone and PC, though that feature didn’t seen enabled. Yet in the software I was running., So what’s the catch Well. For me, it’s not the much publicized security flaw found in Huawei’s PC Manager..
That was patched back in January.. Rather it’s the exclusivity Huawei has built into the service. Right now. It only works between the MateBook X Pro which you can buy in the USA and a Huawei smartphone running EMUI, 9 or above which you can’t buy in the USA..
You need to import it.. If you tap another phone to the tag, it’ll just dump you to Huawei’s website., Look. It makes all the sense in the world for Huawei to want to build its own ecosystem similar to Apple’s.. Just take one look at the MateBook’s industrial design to see that the Chinese company has no problem taking inspiration from the Cupertino one., But we’ve recently seen companies like Microsoft, pushing a lot harder for PC to Android phone integration.. So to me, the next logical step is to start putting NFC SharePoints on all Windows PCs and make them compatible with most Android phones. Turnabout being fair play and all it’s about time. Other companies started taking pages from Huawei’s book, especially when the features are this good.. Folks, if you do own a Matebook X Pro or almost any modern smartphone, you can change the look of either with the help of today’s sponsor.
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All the way down to the nitty gritty of PCIE lanes. Find that at Windows, Central also linked below., Please subscribe to theMrMobile. If you’d like to see more videos like this and as usual, Huawei was not granted copy approval.. They saw this the same time you did, but I did take the opportunity to ask if they were ever gon na bring OneHop to other non-Huawei branded smartphones.. The company had no comment. Until next time, thanks for watching and stay mobile, my friends .
