Motorola has already presented the new generation of its most premium mobile phones, the Edge 50 Ultra, the Edge 50 Pro and the Edge 50 Fusion. There are hardware differences between them, but they share a very important feature that seems to have gone unnoticed.
This is Motorola Smart Connect, a new Motorola solution for integrate your mobile phones with computers, in principle, with Lenovo models, but the company will also bring this platform to more Windows computers. Its operation is not only interesting, but it also offers a more fluid way of using your mobile and PC simultaneously.
From mobile to PC, and from PC to mobile effortlessly
Motorola It is not the first manufacturer to tell us about an ecosystem of devices connected. Apple has had enviable integration between the iPhone and macOS for many years, especially when it comes to sharing files between mobile and laptop, and something as simple (but useful) as copying text on one device and having it available on the other Immediately. Samsung also has its own solution, available between Samsung Galaxy devices and computers of the same brand.
Now, Motorola wants to offer us a new way to use its mobile phones in conjunction with Lenovo computers, something that promises to be very useful for those people who use their devices more intensively. Having greater integration between your mobile and PC can help you be more productiveespecially if we also use the smartphone as a work tool.
According to Motorola, Smart Connect offers a unified and barrier-free experience between multiple devices, to make calls, respond to text messages and, of course, sending files between mobile phones, tablets and computers from Motorola and Lenovo, something that can be very useful since sending files between Android and PC can be a bit cumbersome. Apps can also be used between devices. For example, it is possible to view the mobile phone screen directly on the computer screen, or move gaming or entertainment applications from the mobile phone to the laptop.
Smart Connect also allows use the same mouse (or trackpad) as your computer to control a mobile phone or a tablet fluidly, moving the cursor from one screen to another immediately.
The application also offers support for a smart clipboard, which means that we can copy a text on the computer and have the same text available on the mobile without having to send us that text or link through a message on WhatsApp, or something similar. . Smart Connect is also expected to allow use your cell phone as a webcam on Lenovo computers, something the company mentioned in ad of this platform.
The Motorola Atrix.
Of course, this It is not Motorola’s first effort to bring the experience of using the mobile phone closer to the PC.. In recent years, the company has included the Ready For platform in many of its devices, which allows you to connect a smartphone to a screen to “convert” it into a computer, among other things.
and how to forget that mythical Motorola Atrix, a smartphone that could be inserted into a laptop-shaped dock to turn it into a computer. The dock was expensive, and the idea was not successful, but it was undoubtedly an interesting proposal, and it is a smartphone that I will never forget.
The idea of being able to integrate my smartphone into my workflow in a more fluid and barrier-free way is something that has always interested me, especially because, like many people, I use my phone as a work tool to take notes, conduct research, and more. . Being able to continue using it directly from my computer as if it were part of it It’s too tempting, and precisely what Motorola proposes. I’m just wondering if the experience is as seamless as it seems.
The company introduced Smart Connect during MWC 2024and on that occasion he demonstrated its operation using a Motorola Edge 40 Pro, which suggests that there is a possibility that this function reach more smartphones from the company, or at least to the previous generation of Moto Edge.
As for computers, Motorola confirmed during MWC, in statements to PCMag, which although in principle Smart Connect will be available for Lenovo computers, in the future the application can be used on any computer with Windows 10 and Windows 11, since it will be available through the Microsoft Store app store. We just have to wait.