Get Your Favorite Windows 10 Features on Your Android or Apple Device
Many of you have a smartphone. And most likely if you have a smartphone, you running Android or Apple (iOS) operating systems. And many of you have iPads or Android tablets. And a lot of you are now running Windows 10 on your PC. So, why not do some syncing (no EB, not SINKING)?
Open your start menu, type Phone Companion and click it when it comes up in search results. What’s that EB? Where do you type it in the Start Menu? Don’t worry about it. Just open your start menu and start typing, Windows knows what you are doing. Really! If you really need a form or blank area to type in, use the search on your taskbar and type Phone Companion. Either way you end up with Phone Companion open. As you can see from the image above, to sync your Android or Apple (iOS) device with your Windows 10 computer, just click the appropriate button. See? Android if you have an Android device and iPhone or iPad if you have an Apple device.
Let’s click on Android.
As you can see above – you can sync a lot of things between your Windows 10 PC and your Android device: Cortana, photos, music, to-do-lists (OneNote), Skype, MS Office, and Outlook Email. Now you may not have or want to sync all those things, we just wanted to be aware that your Window 10 PC and your Android device can play nice together. And if you have an iPhone or iPad, you have the same choices…see?
So now you know that Windows 10 will play nice with your Apple iPhone or Android smartphone, and your iPad as well as any Android tablet.
Who ever thought Microsoft would play nice with Android devices or iPhones and iPads?
We’ve come a long way, baby!
I can’t click through on this e-mail.
I haven’t heard anyone else having any problems with the links and we are not etiher. It sounds like a browser problem to me.
Doe not work on Kindle Fire, which runs on Android. When I pull up Windows 10 Phone Companion I get a message that it does not work on this device.
Sue,
Kindle runs on an Amazon-customized version of Android which is very different from the standard Android OS which you’ll find on Android-powered phones and tablets. In fact, Amazon no longer refers to “Android”; they’re calling the current operating system for Kindle “Fire OS”.
For your reference…
Hope this explains the difference between the current version of Android (Android Marshmallow) and Fire OS on Kindle Fire tablets.
Thanks,
TC