Re: It's a wonder, Whatsapp.
From
micky@21:1/5 to
All on Sat Jun 14 20:06:30 2025
XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-11
It's a wonder, Whatsapp.
Those who are bored by a historical novel can skip to the end, with the asterisks****.
I've been trying to use my Android phone from my PC, which has a large keyboard.
First I used MyPhoneExplorer. Great program, and good, among many other things, for sending texts while using a full-size keyboard, but you had
to have the phone on and connected to the PC at the time. I usually
have my cell phone off.
Then I learned how to send texts from the PC, by using the phone number
with the right domain, a different one for each cellular company. This
worked very well, but in the past 6 months 3 of the major cellular
companies have disabled it. Why I don't know, since I can't see how this
costs the cellular company any money (especially once the code has been written.) The one I used most was disabled 2 weeks ago! :-(
Then I learned about Phone Link and Whatsapp for the PC.
Phone Link is free and very good but it also requires the cell phone to
be on, and I suppose, connected.
****And I assumed Whatsapp did too. Tonight my brother called from Peru
and it rang on the PC, EVEN THOUGH THE PHONE WAS OFF!!!! I would have
missed him if whatsapp were not so clever (and he's 85 and he's been
sick and I don't like it when I miss his calls. We talked for over an
hour with no static, blips, or interference.) I think whatsapp on the
PC might have been closed too, ????, but I will test that later. Could
it have been closed. If I have to keep it open all the time, that's
better than having to keep the phone on all the time, esp. now that I
have 32gigs of RAM. Whatsapp is a wonder.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)