In one of my blogs, I had
mentioned about the features of Airdroid. That Airdroid users can wirelessly
access manage and control almost all aspects of their smartphones and tablets
from their favorite web browser. Airdroid is the best and had almost all the
features, so that one can easily use all the applications of their smartphones
and tablets through web browser. A few days ago, the developers announced an
invite-only beta of the latest version of Airdroid i.e. Airdroid 2.
This Airdroid 2 comes with
the ‘Remote Connection Mode’ that allows users to access their devices contents
and features over the internet from anywhere in the world in addition to the
existing Wi-Fi connection mode. So this Airdroid 2 eliminates the limitation of
Airdroid that computer and mobile device should be on the same Wi-Fi network.
Along with this, one more feature is added that it also brings remote camera
access and a ‘Find Phone’ anti-theft feature.
The biggest feature i.e. the Remote Connection Mode grants the users to access all the Airdroid features from two different Wi-Fi networks. Like you are somewhere else connected to that particular Wi-Fi network and your device at home connected to your home Wi-Fi network and still you can access it through your Airdroid 2.
To use this Remote
Connection mode, you will need a valid account to pair with the web and mobile
clients together. As of, still now The Remote Connection mode allows
transferring of data up to 20 MB in size, but it will allot 1GB of total data
usage. Now to navigate through this the user has to log in to the app through a
new domain http://v2.airdroid.com/ instead
of web.airdroid.com or you may enter the Ip addresses on the Airdroid mobile
app into your browsers URL bar. If you have the device with you, you can simply
scan the QR code shown on the website to log in. You also can sign up for a new
account using your Facebook, twitter, Google account. And once you are
connected all is yours, you can perform the whole bunch supported tasks, that
all remotely over the internet. You can stream your music and videos, view your
gallery photos, manage all your phone logs, view contacts and messages, install
apps etc.
Airdroid also now supports a new camera tool that can be used to remotely snapshots from your device’s camera. Once you click on the camera icon tool in your browser, the camera on your device will automatically get started and you are ready to capture live images with all the other options of zoom, pause, rotate. The images captured will be stored to Downloads files of your computer system.
One more feature is Find
Phone which helps you to instantly track your Android device location on the
map if you find tough looking after your mobile phone. Even if the device loses
the internet access or get powers off, still you can see its last registered
location. It has also some more features such as sounding the alarm, sending
the text messages and remotely locking and wiping the device itself.
As the latest version is
currently in beta, you can expect some features to be non-functional at this
moment. But soon this will get completely functional with its final version.
Airdroid soon will become the best remote device management tool for Android.
