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From the article: What can this do? Using Valent (and KDE Connect), you can: - receive Android phone notifications on your desktop and reply to messages - sy

From the article: What can this do? Using Valent (and KDE Connect), you can: - receive Android phone notifications on your desktop and reply to messages - sync the clipboard between your Android device and desktop - control music playing on your desktop from your Android phone - share files between your desktop and Android device, and browse your phone from the desktop - send SMS from your desktop - execute predefined commands from your Android phone to run on your desktop - control your desktop's mouse and keyboard from the Android device - browse your Android device filesystem from your desktop wirelessly - and more

skykooler 4y ago
There’s also an iOS client, though it doesn’t have all features implemented due to limitations in Apple’s APIs. However it’s still the most convenient way to transfer files between an iPhone and a Windows or Linux computer.
- JustSomeNobody 4y ago
  iOS app does also support Samba. I really with the Photos app did. I don't think a "Pro" phone is a Pro phone without that feature.
- harry8 4y ago
  Signal "note to self" is another way.
  - jeroenhd 4y ago
    It'll work but that will upload your files to the cloud. If you're on cable internet or even DSL, transferring video files that way will take significantly longer than just using the local connection KDE Connect provides. Of course, there are many local alternatives as well. I just can't see cloud upload features as an alternative to a local network transfer mechanism.
  - sneak 4y ago
    This ruins your images or videos via terrible recompression that you can't disable.
  - iudqnolq 4y ago
    If it's not private file.io gives you a handy qr code and supports <2gb
  - rickstanley 4y ago
    Telegram's "Saved messages" is another.
    - rouxz 4y ago
      Only if you trust telegram (you shouldn't)
      - eitland 4y ago
        Without context this is just noise. Also when you say: don't trust Telegram, while not saying anything about WhatsApp, you are, on average, pushing people from a solution that isn't proven to be trustworthy to a solution that is proven to be untrustworthy. Because unless you simultaneously point out that WhatsApp is worse, that is where people will go if they listen to you and avoid Telegram.
        sneak 4y ago
        Telegram is not e2ee.
        eitland 4y ago
        And? WhatsApp is e2ee-but-sends-your-data-brazenly-to-google-and-facebook-by-sidechannels. So far Telegram hasn't been caught once the last decade while WhatsApp has been caught at least twicem
        pmontra 4y ago
        Telegram has a Secret Chat. It's on the 3 dots menu in the screen for a contact. Secret chats are available only on one device, they don't sync to the other devices of the user.
        heinrich5991 4y ago
        I think in this context, WhatsApp is better than Telegram. In Telegram, you'd upload your files in a way that the server can see them. In WhatsApp, the server won't be able to see the contents. (Even in general, I think that Telegram is no clear win over WhatsApp, and in fact I'd consider it worse in terms of chat message security.)

skykooler 4y ago

There’s also an iOS client, though it doesn’t have all features implemented due to limitations in Apple’s APIs. However it’s still the most convenient way to transfer files between an iPhone and a Windows or Linux computer.

JustSomeNobody 4y ago
iOS app does also support Samba. I really with the Photos app did. I don't think a "Pro" phone is a Pro phone without that feature.
harry8 4y ago
Signal "note to self" is another way.
- jeroenhd 4y ago
  It'll work but that will upload your files to the cloud. If you're on cable internet or even DSL, transferring video files that way will take significantly longer than just using the local connection KDE Connect provides. Of course, there are many local alternatives as well. I just can't see cloud upload features as an alternative to a local network transfer mechanism.
- sneak 4y ago
  This ruins your images or videos via terrible recompression that you can't disable.
- iudqnolq 4y ago
  If it's not private file.io gives you a handy qr code and supports <2gb
- rickstanley 4y ago
  Telegram's "Saved messages" is another.
  - rouxz 4y ago
    Only if you trust telegram (you shouldn't)
    - eitland 4y ago
      Without context this is just noise. Also when you say: don't trust Telegram, while not saying anything about WhatsApp, you are, on average, pushing people from a solution that isn't proven to be trustworthy to a solution that is proven to be untrustworthy. Because unless you simultaneously point out that WhatsApp is worse, that is where people will go if they listen to you and avoid Telegram.
      - sneak 4y ago
        Telegram is not e2ee.
        eitland 4y ago
        And? WhatsApp is e2ee-but-sends-your-data-brazenly-to-google-and-facebook-by-sidechannels. So far Telegram hasn't been caught once the last decade while WhatsApp has been caught at least twicem
        pmontra 4y ago
        Telegram has a Secret Chat. It's on the 3 dots menu in the screen for a contact. Secret chats are available only on one device, they don't sync to the other devices of the user.
      - heinrich5991 4y ago
        I think in this context, WhatsApp is better than Telegram. In Telegram, you'd upload your files in a way that the server can see them. In WhatsApp, the server won't be able to see the contents. (Even in general, I think that Telegram is no clear win over WhatsApp, and in fact I'd consider it worse in terms of chat message security.)