One of the things that I cannot believe doesn’t exist yet, or at least I haven’t found it, is the ability to completely control my PPC-6700 (or any smart phone for that matter) from my laptop’s keyboard and mouse.
If I’m docked in my USB cradle and the cradle is attached to my laptop, why in the world can’t I pop open an application window that mirrors that “desktop” of my phone and work with the phone in that mode?
Here’s a couple of the things that I’d think I should be able to do without any problems:
- Send a text message via my phone. I know I can do it through Outlook Connector, but it’s not the same and the recipient can’t just “Reply” to my text and get it back to me.
- Dial the phone. If I’ve got headphones with a mic plugged in, it would be great to be able to use my cell phone and make a phone call to someone through my computer. I’d think the Mobile OS would just need to pump the audio through the USB to the audio headphone and mic outputs of the laptop.
- Install software. Why can’t I completely work through the install process through my laptop keyboard and mouse?
Really the list could go on, but I should be able to completely control my phone through my laptop or desktop, whatever computer it’s plugged into. It doesn’t seem like it should be that hard.
The stretch would be to achieve the vice-versa task of completely controlling my laptop through my phone.
Photo Credit: The picture above is the Sprint Mogul currently available from Sprint. It’s the newest release of the PPC-6700 version phone. Sure would like to upgrade my device, that’s for sure!