It is no coincidence that last year, Intel acquired Screenovate for $150 million, a newly created Israeli company that had devised software for connecting and exchanging information between different platforms that was also very easy to use. It is enough to transfer the screen of the mobile to that of a PC, car or television, the screen mirroring of a lifetime, and begin to interact.
Not a year has passed for Intel to present at the Intel Innovation Unison conference, which is precisely the integration in the revision of the platform for Intel Evo laptops and that it works with a 12th or 13th generation Core processor of a version more sophisticated than the one bought from the company in Israel.
What Intel proposes from Unison is that we can connect our smartphone to the work laptop and exchange information between both in a simple and intuitive way. The good thing about this platform is that it allows you to work with both Android and iOS and, among its advantages, transfer photos between both devices very quickly, edit them or send messages from an app but using the PC keyboard, which is much larger and more comfortable than the mobile one.
The difference from Microsoft Mobile Link
Microsoft’s Mobile Link app does most of these things already, but Intel says its solution will not only have better performance thanks to Wi-Fi Direct and the use of specific drivers, which will also work on iPhones. In addition, it ensures that the software will have a great optimization in terms of energy consumption, which is one of the main drawbacks of Mobile Link.
An alternative that helps us improve communication in real time of various heterogeneous platforms and use three operating systems as different as Windows, iOS and Android. And that allows us to combine the interaction of our smartphone and the work laptop on the screen of the latter.
Another of the advantages proposed by Unison is make and receive voice calls from the laptop, as well as receive and manage smartphone notifications from the PC. In short, a platform -and not just an application- that allows us to connect our phone, PC and tablet at the same time, and that promises to become essential for any developer to make the most of it.
unison too doubles the capabilities of what the popular Windows Your Phone app can achieve. And it is that, Unison can be connected to iPhones, something that Windows has given up to focus on the integration of Android.
There is also a date for its release: Unison will be released at the end of the year on key members of the premium Evo platform, with PCs from HP, Lenovo and Acer. Although according to the manager of Intel’s mobile vision, Josh Newman, it is expected to incorporate other PC manufacturers in 2023. In addition to launching a software development (SDK) that could reach the market early next year and that allows any developer of software to create applications that will connect the three platforms with each other.
From Intel, the technical director of connected experiences at Intel, has commented that device manufacturers, including cameras and smart watches, have had to navigate multiple wireless connection technologies and multiple operating systems to interconnect and communicate with each other. Yes.
