App Profile: Dell Mobile Connect

Johnny 2 Brews

Rating: 4/5

Wanted something that would mirror phone to pc, which it does, but it doesn’t even mirror in full screen. Why does it have to be so tiny? I’d give it a lower rating but it has other features I guess, hopefully those work better. Seriously, no way to stretch or at least zoom in the capture? Dell’s better than this even though it’s clearly not showing. Honestly feels like some bootleg 3rd party app when you’d expect better from a well established company

FreddyGotHumoured

Rating: 2/5

Love the app’s potential and promise, but it’s riddled with issues and bugs that prevent me from giving it five stars. Could use of couple of more features here and there like being able to send and receive group texts but that’s not the end of the world. When the App is working as designed and expected, it’s fantastic. Yes, the mirroring isn’t perfect and it’s not going to allow you to seamlessly manage and use the phone with your laptop, but I wouldn’t expect Apple to allow for that type of tight knit integration. The main problem with this App is the fact that it just doesn’t stay connected for more than a couple of days. I’ve tried pretty much everything that comes to mind, restarting the phone and laptop multiple times. Killing the Bluetooth adapters on both and restarting. I have even deleted the programs from each device and reinstalled. But nothing seems to fix the connectivity issues permanently or even for very long. After a few days, the two devices can’t talk to each other anymore and you will inevitably have to disconnect the phone from the App on the computer and set it up again. And again. And again. I keep doing it because I love it when it works, but man what I would give for a long lasting solution to keep this program working. Perhaps I’m one of the few with this problem and if so, I’m glad others get to use it to its full hassle free potential.

Jet's Beeper

Rating: 2/5

The feature set is really nice, and being able to text with my iPhone from a Windows machine is such a unique capability compared with most other Windows machines. The major problem is running it on a laptop, however. I have one of the top-of-the line, latest and greatest models that Dell makes. But starting up this program causes an absurd amount of CPU usage on its own. It runs an entire processing core at max load, meaning the laptop is constantly generating a lot of heat and the fans are spinning at near max. It makes the machine hot and noisy, and drains the battery very quickly. Because of this, I’m gonna be uninstalling the program and not using it. I’ll be checking back every few months to see if they’ve improved this, but until they do it’s unfortunately unusable.