As a pan-science editor, I have always been keen to explore new electronic products and seek for software and hardware that can help improve my productivity, so that I can be more focused and efficient in text editing. In my daily work, news reports usually need high timeliness, and mobile phones are an extremely convenient shooting, recording and editing tool, so mobile phones will become one of the important productivity tools when I am on a business trip. But what bothers me is that the mutual transmission between mobile phones and laptops has been isolated for a long time in the past. The compatible packages introduced by mobile phone manufacturers only contain simple functions such as sending photos and files. The process of copying the materials and sorting them out separately is extremely inefficient, and it is even worse to use WeChat transmission function directly. When the network is bad or the data line can't be found temporarily, it is really urgent for others. Maybe it is the scolding of the leaders.

Huawei's recently launched "multi-screen collaboration" function is a good medicine for me. With the implementation of the concept of "full scene intelligence", Huawei has broken through the gap between laptop and mobile phone, and greatly improved the efficiency of content transmission by means of multi-screen intercommunication and hardware sharing. It can realize convenient functions such as dragging and dropping text/files across hardware, sharing clipboard, and even directly controlling mobile phone with laptop only by wireless means. Even if you are not a writer like me, you can clearly feel the convenience of connection it brings.

hardware support list of multi-screen collaboration function:

notebook computer: supports a variety of Huawei Matebook notebook products. Please refer to official website for specific models.

mobile phone products must meet the following conditions: 1. upgrade EMUI to 1. or above;

2. Built-in Kirin 98 and above chips;

3. The built-in wifi chip needs 113 or Broadcom 43611 or a chip higher than this specification.

note: the computer housekeeper application in the notebook computer needs to be upgraded to 1. or above.

Function and experience

Multi-screen collaboration is essentially an upgraded version of Huawei's one-touch transmission function, so it can take advantage of the features contained in backwards compatibility's previous one-touch transmission, such as the integration of two systems to display on the same screen, the dragging of files and other information across systems, and the operation of mobile phones with a mouse and a keyboard. It left a very good impression on me as soon as I touched it. It was easy to operate and the transmission speed was faster than AirDrop, and the multi-screen collaboration brought me more surprises than the former.

first of all, users need to connect their notebooks to their mobile phones. Huawei provides three connection methods, namely, touching (supporting NFC), code scanning and proximity connection (enabling Bluetooth). After the connection is completed, the interface of the mobile phone will be displayed as a window on the screen of the notebook. Users can use the mouse and keyboard to control and input text, which is equivalent to combining the mobile phone and the notebook, answering the phone and replying to WeChat with the computer, or even dragging the photos and text in the mobile phone gallery directly into the Word document or email of the notebook for editing.

It should be noted that when the notebook is connected with the mobile phone, the mobile phone needs to be always awake, and the screen cannot be locked. The system will automatically turn off the screen to save power consumption. The reason is that Huawei has not given the laptop the ability to unlock the mobile phone, so as not to threaten the data security of the mobile phone. In addition, when using multi-screen collaboration, you can't share files with others through Bluetooth or Huawei Share, because the transmission channel has been occupied by the notebook, so you can disconnect when necessary.

this time, I experienced the multi-screen collaboration function on MateBook X Pro, and its screen supports ten-point touch, which allows me to control the mobile phone window more conveniently, and I feel almost no delay when dragging the screen. The experience is like embedding my mobile phone in my notebook, which allows me to concentrate more on my notebook at work and improve work efficiency.

I believe many people, like me, often brush a circle of friends for a while in order to reply to a WeChat when they are busy with work, then click on an article, and then more than ten minutes pass ... It turns out that reading information on a different screen is less distracting than cutting a window on the same screen.

during the evaluation, I found that multi-screen collaboration greatly simplified my workflow. Normally, I will use my mobile phone to record some inspirations, outlines and excerpts from some essential paragraphs at any time. In addition, the photos transmitted from the camera will be kept in my mobile phone. Usually, when I write, I will throw all the relevant words and photos in my mobile phone into the file transfer assistant of WeChat, and then save them one by one in my notebook for use. Now, when I start writing, I just need to touch my mobile phone with my notebook. After the connection, what materials I need for writing can be directly dragged into the Word document from the file management, memos and galleries of my mobile phone, and the transmission process is very fast without relying on the cellular network, and even ctrl+C and ctrl+V can be used for quick operation.

use the notebook keyboard to input text into the mobile phone

In addition, multi-screen collaboration is also a convenient screen projection method. When holding a small meeting, the content on the mobile phone can be projected on the notebook to show others. When holding a team meeting, the notebook can also be connected to a larger display device through HDMI, which can also be controlled by the mobile phone. However, at present, the resolution projected on the computer is low, showing PPT content is enough, but it is not necessary to watch some long videos with it.

Summary

From my experience, multi-screen collaboration has been highly available at present. It has many characteristics such as simple connection, convenient operation, wireless interconnection, rapid response and so on, which can greatly help users to concentrate on their work and improve work efficiency. But even though the current experience of multi-screen collaboration has been excellent, there is still a broad imagination in the follow-up. Can more screen devices be added to notebooks and mobile phones in the future? For example, Huawei's smart screen, even the future electric car and so on.

Huawei is paving a fully intelligent scene at the speed that we can see with our naked eyes, and focusing on solving the problem of poor interconnection experience between different hardware. Maybe in the near future, we can see the real-time moving images of our family cars on the TV in the living room, and enjoy the TV theater-level sound system with the screen of our mobile phones. All this seems to be in front of us, which is expected.