Google is allegedly engaged on an Android device-linking characteristic

Google is reportedly planning to introduce a brand new Android characteristic that may let customers hyperlink their varied Android gadgets collectively, much like Continuity options throughout the Apple ecosystem. Android knowledgeable Mishaal Rahman tweeted concerning the potential characteristic, noting that it might permit Android gadgets which might be signed into the identical Google account to speak with one another. 

This might allow options like “Name Switching,” which permits customers to leap between related gadgets throughout calls, and “Web Sharing,” which Android Authority speculates may very well be a better technique to shortly arrange a private hotspot throughout the linked gadgets. Apple has an analogous call-switching characteristic known as “iPhone Cellular Calls” that permits customers to make and obtain calls from Apple gadgets like Macs and iPads signed into the identical Apple ID, offering they’re on the identical community because the person’s iPhone.

Android Authority additionally notes, nevertheless, that Apple’s “iPhone Cellular Calls” characteristic doesn’t permit customers to obtain calls from one other iPhone. The wording for Google’s “Name Switching” characteristic (as seen within the screenshot offered by Rahman) means that it may very well be used to modify between completely different Android gadgets, together with telephones. So that you would possibly be capable to choose up a name on a telephone and switch it to a different linked telephone or one thing just like the Pixel Pill. We received’t know for positive till Google formally declares this, but when it’s real then this may very well be helpful for folk who want to hold a couple of telephone. 

Rahman claims that the “Hyperlink Your Units” menu will seem beneath Settings > Google > Units & Sharing within the system settings as soon as the characteristic is formally launched. Google has but to announce the Android system linking characteristic, not to mention a launch date. We now have reached out for remark from Google and can replace this story ought to we hear again.