locked to a single provider of your services or your using a service the doesn’t fit perfekt and you look for an alternative, here is the solution
alternative.me provide nothing but alternatives – simply add the current app/service/business application your using and check what possible alternatives are around, e.g. switch from chrome to brave browser
they also check the appeal in categorys women, men, kids, luggage, hobbies & sports
finally they analyze emotions and sentiments with a schema to generate the fear & greed index for crypto currencies
with over 2 billions of android device world wide running android but with a large version fragmentation, google is acting with project treble to push faster updates, for enterprise recommended devices has to push security update within 90 days – attached current version spread of android versions
firstclass support for it’s iOS devices, good choise in regarding return of invest – my 5 years old test device iPhone 6s already updated to the current iOS13
.. and even new releases got a great adoption rate for apple devices, already half of all iOS devices running the latest release
kaiOS quietly gained to one of the most used mobile operating system, it bridges the gap between feature phones and smartphones
let’s check how to use display content at a second screen to raise productivity, there are several options to enlarge your screen, the power of your mobile device is most of the time enough to serve multi screen
windows
project, duplicate, extend are availabe options when hit windows key + p to open up charms bar with available options todisplay wired connected to hdmi or wireless adapter via miracast
macos
to add an unwired further screen like an ipad, android, windows or even another mac – use airdisplayor interesting as a hardware solution lunadisplay
since macos catalina the sidecar extend screen natively with iPad
huawei
got it’s own desktop mode when connected via hmdi to a tv, attach keyboard, show presentation direct from your mobile or mirror your mobile screen wireless to miracast or chromecast
windows phone
continuum is/was a clever system, but HP Elite X3 was the latest device to support it, microsoft finally quite the phone project
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samsung
offers wir dexa hadware adapter to connect you samsung mobile to your monitor, keyboard, etc. – looks like combinded version of huawei and continuun, intersting to access from mobile device via dex dock to virtual desktop
blackberry
blendseamlessly brings messaging and content that’s on your blackberry smartphone to your desktop and tablet
anycast
if the is no build in solution, this is problalby the best way that support airplay, miracast, dlna up and up to 4k in a single device
dualscreen
this trend driven further since microsoft shortly announced the android powered surface duo and surface neo both with a buildin second screen – samsung already released a dualscreen device with it’s fold, huawei will maybe following
more often noticed and actually effected by myself – google calenar display per default new invites from inbox, usually displayed in calendar for easy scheduleing or to block the timeslot – so attacker can target your gmail account to push notification directly to your mobile device when the fake calendar entry occurs
to get rid of this spam, it’s not enough to delete each calendar entry, because a new invite immediately popup’s in your calendar – your have to disable the feature “automatically add invitations” in google calendar event settings
further … a vulnerability in WIB sim-browser can let attackers globally take control of hundreds of millions of the victim mobile phones worldwide to make a phone call, send SMS to any phone numbers, send victim’s location, launch WAP browser, etc. – read more
… if you want to test or troubleshoot your mobile webpage or browser app it’s quite tricky from desktop – mobile webapplication deliver content based on the browsers user agent – there are severals browser plugins to switch the agent – but all major browser offer a build in feature to change the behaviour
google chrome
in settings > more tools > developer tools (Crtl + Shift + I) below network conditions your able to switch user agent – e.g. search at google to display
microsoft edge and internet explorer
F12 developer tools (press F12) > Emulation opens an onboard user agent switcher
mozilla firefox
webpage is loaded in same way an iPad would do – type about:config in addressbar, search for useragent and create a new entry
string: general.useragent.override
value: Mozilla/5.0(iPad; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26(KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5355d Safari/8536.25
macOS safari
enable in settings > advanced the option show develop menu in menu bar
iOSdevices
since iOS13 / iPadOS – safari browser of the apple tablet can switch between mobile and desktop presentation of a webpage, as shown in the video below
android devices
install e.g. Rocket Browser to test the behavoir of other user agents, in Settings > General Settings is it possible to change the user agent – developed android webapps can define an own user agent with java code webview.getSettings().setUserAgentString(MyString);
test your Browser features here and see what’s your browser capable of
is the technology to get to your data, data needs to be transfered and could directly viewed while transfering, other that simply copy and paste between to places
casting
the content from internet (netflix) goes direct to your tv, optional initiat the connection from your smartphone, you could leave the network without interrupting the stream
mirroring
to display the exact same content at another display, in fact if you leave the wifi the transmissing is broken
miracast
despite from it’s name, miracast is also a screen-mirroring protocol @wikipedia, miracast is vendor independant, integrated in tv or seperate hdmi stick, even windows10 device could mirrored
airplay
is a streaming protocol between apple devices, your able to stream music but also mirror your device screen to an apple tv, other remote controller could “learned” to control apple tv, offer access to apple’s appstore
update: simulate airplay to stream from ios devices to android tv with airreceiver app
chromecast
google offers a lot streaming devices with this name, integrated in every android device, it’s the largest framework, more smart with integration of speakers, similar setup with amazon’s alexa possible, integrated in many apps to watch live tv, stream from you synology nas and for sure in every google app, example in medialibary below
amazon offer it’s own devices (fire tv stick) to display it’s own contect (amazon music, prime video), but current device doesn’t support miracast anymore, amazon’s fling as chromecast pendant discontinued, see some fire tv app screens attached below, but with android apps quite powerful to customize
dlna alliance founded by ease sharing digtal media, handling often not that userfriendly, local app render content to be displayed at a supported dlna device (tv) e.g. allcast app, not mirroring supported
mirrorshare huawei’s native feature to mirror your device to a connected tv, but mirrorshare support miracast, for chromecast you need to install dedicated google home app
samsung
also samsung got it’s own sharing option – allshare, now called smartview to easily share between samsung camera, samsung laptop, samsung phones, samsung tabs, samsung …
smartcast
vizio updated it’s tv’s with smartcast 3.0, able to stream from any mobile device, native ios support with airplay 2.0, no additional device or dongle needed @blog.vizio
business …
…even more got the challange to guarantee the usability and functionallity
clickshare
is an enterprise solution, stable and expensive, needs to be connected to the device, multiple device can mirror to a tv
chromecast
do not support wpn2 enterprise, no device management possiblities, perfect for private use – no enterprise grade
appletv
enrolled with apple’s device enrol lment program, managed with an emm system, connected to 802.1x wifi networks and restricted with buildin policies, perfect for enterprise with apple devices