ISSUE 73 • ANDROID ADVISOR 75Calls allows you to use your laptop’s speaker and
mic to talk to callers, which of course is anything but
discreet. On the other hand, if you’re working in a
private office, you don’t need to unearth your phone
to answer or place a call.
Assuming you’ve never used Skype before, it can
be rather fun to place and respond to a call from your
PC. I did notice a bit of an echo or ‘tunnel’ effect when
responding to callers, though that may be patched out
over time.
So is Your Phone ultimately useful? It can be, in the
sense that an Android watch or Apple Watch allows
you to surreptitiously glance at your wrist – or in
this case, your screen – to see what your phone is
reporting. A wearable does much more – but that’s
an additional device and an additional cost.A bare-bones dialler
app dominates the Calls
section of Your Phone