For Android (on smartphone) and Windows (on PC) users, Phone Link is one of the most convenient utilities released by Microsoft in a long, long time. When we remember it, we will remember it A few years ago, Microsoft’s stance on Android was somewhat combative (an echo, of course, of his attempt to bring Windows into the smartphone ecosystem), during that time he made it clear that this was one of Steve Ballmer’s big mistakes when he was at the helm of the company.

The arrival of Satya Nadella as CEO represented a huge paradigm shift for Microsoft, which in a short period of time made a 180-degree turn in many aspects, including the “relationship” of Windows with other operating systems. Since then, we’ve seen the operating system add WSA (Windows Subsystem for Android) and WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), the ability to use Android apps directly in Windows, and also, important advances to facilitate collaboration between Windows and Android mobile devices.

So currently Enlace Móvil, introduced in April 2022 and which taken from your phone (which was the successor to Phone Companion), allows us to access from Windows notifications, messages, call list, make and receive calls, access the image gallery… the list is quite long. , from what we could imagine and now confirm, Microsoft will not stop at this point. On the contrary, we can expect the arrival of new functions that will allow us to use this link between the two devices even more.

So as we can read in Android Authority, code analysis The Mobile Link app for Android shows clear signs that we can use the smartphone camera as a PC webcam. There are several elements related to this feature, from its functions to error messages for certain events. This feature is not yet available, and indeed has not been officially confirmed, but its appearance in the APK makes us think that its launch, initially in beta of course, should not be too far away.

So with this move Microsoft could be ahead of Android’s long-awaited Continuity feature, which in turn is Google’s answer to Apple’s continuity features for its ecosystem of devices and operating systems. At the beginning of the year, there were rumors that this feature would arrive with Android 14, although it ended up not being the case. We can only hope that it won’t be delayed much longer, but if it is, the arrival of the same feature to Enlace Móvil could be great news for many.