Have you ever wondered if you sometime had a remote to your laptop using which you could control the simple functionalities of your laptop like media player, volume control, power on/off etc? If yes then may be your very own Android (Andy) might be helpful, the Unified Remote App for Android platform allows you to access your desktop remotely in simple words that is to say that it converts your Android phone into a remote for your laptop. To find out more about the app read on…
Application Information:
- Price: Free
- Requires: ANDROID: 1.5 and up
- File size: 370kb
- Developer Website: Unifiedremote.com
- Android market download link: com.Relmtech.Remote
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Unified Remote – Android App Review
Pros & Cons:
Pros:
- Utility app in more ways than one.
- Easily the most feature filed Android-PC remote.
Cons:
- Support of all the different applications on your phone is not present.
- The manipulation of the remote desktop is difficult and requires superfast internet connection of smooth functioning
Features:
As far as features are concerned the app is full of it. The app allows you to control the task switcher, media player as well as the presentation control. The unified remote server even had commands for controlling the browser of the your PC and ehce you can start and stop the browsing on your PC using your phone whenever you want. However if your phone is not on a high speed internet connection all the functionalities would become quite slow and hence the app is almost left useless.
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Unified Remote – Android App Ratings
Navigation (rating out of 10)
The navigation of the app is excellent and the different menus lead to some easy to use pages, with very easy to use functionalities. For the excellent navigation of the app we give it a healthy 8 out of 10.
Usability(rating out of 10)
The usability of the app is however dependent on the speed of the internet connection that the user is using but as well as the functionality to usability ratio is concerned the app earns highly in that regard. We give the app a healthy 8 out of 10 in that respect as well.
Price
Both the app and the sever program are available for free and hence there are no issues there.
Final Verdict:
A must try out app for all Android lovers.
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