Next year a vast amount of laptops will now sell without a webcam. Laptop manufacturers are creaming their pants at the thought of saving themselves money and profiting more.
I’m so glad this feature is coming. My only concern is that I use my phone while I’m using my webcam.
I suppose that’s why things like Phone Link on Windows is a thing. You can continue to use parts of your phone while it’s being used as a webcam.
I want to believe this will make laptops slightly cheaper. However, they’ll probably just charge the same and have webcam installation as an option for like $50-100.
Phone Link can be used for that? When I set it up all it gave me was texts and notifications that only worked half the time. I found it quite disappointing.
Well by “parts of your phone”, I mean calling/texting, and seeing notifications. The things I can’t really do without my phone. Most other things I can do via a web browser.
If you have certain Microsoft Duo, Samsung, and HONOR phones, you can access apps, but then again that’s a moot point since this is about using your phone as a webcam in Android 14, which is currently only a Pixel thing.
I haven’t tried Phone Link since it launched, so I am unsure how good it is, but I am going to be optimistic lol.
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Next year a vast amount of laptops will now sell without a webcam. Laptop manufacturers are creaming their pants at the thought of saving themselves money and profiting more.
I’m so glad this feature is coming. My only concern is that I use my phone while I’m using my webcam.
I suppose that’s why things like Phone Link on Windows is a thing. You can continue to use parts of your phone while it’s being used as a webcam.
Nah it’ll take at least 5 years for that to happen. They have to wait until most people have Android 14 to use the feature.
Computer manufacturers don’t care, though lol
I want to believe this will make laptops slightly cheaper. However, they’ll probably just charge the same and have webcam installation as an option for like $50-100.
Phone Link can be used for that? When I set it up all it gave me was texts and notifications that only worked half the time. I found it quite disappointing.
Well by “parts of your phone”, I mean calling/texting, and seeing notifications. The things I can’t really do without my phone. Most other things I can do via a web browser.
If you have certain Microsoft Duo, Samsung, and HONOR phones, you can access apps, but then again that’s a moot point since this is about using your phone as a webcam in Android 14, which is currently only a Pixel thing.
I haven’t tried Phone Link since it launched, so I am unsure how good it is, but I am going to be optimistic lol.
Phone link works quite well for me, works just like you describe. Shares your phones screen when using apps.
The solution is to have two phones! One for web cam, one for memes.