Android 2.2 has introduced a new protocole to send/push information from your PC to your Mobile. John Gruber from Daring Fireball notices it as one of the main (and most interesting) new features
The most interesting upcoming Android feature that Google demoed at I/O is a “cloud-to-device” messaging API. Examples of how they’re going to use it:
- Buy an app (or song, or anything) from the Android Marketplace using a PC web browser, select one of your Android devices, and the item you just purchased will be pushed directly to that device over the air.
- Take the current URL from your PC web browser and push it to your device, over the air. If it’s a web page, it’ll open in the Android web browser; if it’s a Google Maps URL, it’ll open in the Android Maps app
The typical case is that you see a URL or an information your want to send from your Computer to your Mobile (a map, a Youtube, an app) and you want it on your mobile instantly
We created a few months ago the same thing for the iPhone called Pastefire. See the demo below in video
So if you are jealous of android because of that feature, now you don't have to. Just go to pastefire, download the app and (my recommendation) install our bookmarklet or the desktop client
Personally i use it every single day, specially to dial phone numbers but also to install apps in the app store without having to search for them
Anyone who tried it felt it's "magic". And it's...Free