Chrome To Phone: Anybody Using it?

[k9cop]

I cannot find the Chrometophone extension anywhere for my Laptop Chrome Browser. Has it been taken off?

 

[Frohoss]

i have the same computer issues.

"chrome to phone" installed on evo okay.

however,i can't find where to install the program on my computer. i use google chrome and unable to find "chrome to phone" on google chrome extensions page.

i search "chrome to phone" and search results start with Google Voice (by Google), Chrome to Notifo Extension, QR-Code Tag Extension, LinkPush, etc...

any other ideas?

 

[Srfcrzy]

Hey, thanks to everyone for this tip...I have installed "Send to Phone" as a Firefox add-on and downloaded to the apk to my phone ("successfully" according to my phone); however, when I try to 'send to phone' it says I need to install the apk on the phone...and on the phone, I get a "parse" error.

Any ideas about what to do next?

 

[brushrop03]

Yeah this app is pretty good. There are other apps like it but this is my favorite one

 

[brushrop03]

If you're looking for the Chrome extension or Android App you can find them here. The extension isn't in on Chrome's official site. I don't think the App is in the market either...

Downloads - chrometophone - Project Hosting on Google Code
(also in 1st post)

 

[TRiP]

It works great. I do a lot of traveling, and its great not having to type in addresses on the phone and hit navigate all the time. When im on the pc, just send the directions straight to my phone.

My concern is that I have to login with my gmail credentials to get this working...

 

[Jim_Phone]

I got both ChromeToPhone as well as Android2Cloud working on my Evo. Great technology & services. ChromeToPhone works from both Chrome & FF with the correct extensions to send to your Android 2.2 smartphone, while Android2Cloud going the other direction from the phone to the desktop only sends to Chrome right now. The security concerns of allowing access to my gmail account do bother me a little but I installed both to test them out and I am impressed. I think the Cloud To Mobile Device technology underpinning one or both of these services is very powerful and will soon have a lot of applications in the near future for multiple services.

 

[Brent Pierce]

In case some people don't know about this little gem. Send links and text straight to your EVO from your browser (Chrome & Firefox).

Chrome to Phone

Pretty nifty for copying text or opening a link on your phone, when your heading out the door or something. Idk, it's got alot of possibilities.

To copy text from browser to phone: hilight>right click>"send this text to android"

 

[music_pharoah]

Are you using Chrome? or FireFox?

Per Chrome: I'm not seeing an option in my right click window to "Send to Phone"

Edit: Turns out if you highlight text and then push the Google Chrom to Phone Extension button, it will send.

 

[laredo7mm]

http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g/139769-chrome-phone-anybody-using.htmlhttp://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g/139769-chrome-phone-anybody-using.html

 

[Caker]

I still don't understand it. How do you get it. I'm using Chrome, but do you need to download anything?

EDIT: Got it.

 

[jgalan14]

Yeah is the greatest thing and easy to use , i just wish the cloud service that froyo got developers use it for their apps Idk it seems the froyo is not develop right in some apps

 

[newone757]

its alright. only time i use it is when im browsing my desktop and the need to hit the bathroom comes over me, hit the button and off i go to continue reading on the porcelain

 

[kmoon89]

I actually use Flock as my default browser and surprisingly it worked. Although it could be because Flock is pretty much based off of Firefox and Chrome, but anyway, cool feature.

 

[newone757]

I actually use Flock as my default browser and surprisingly it worked. Although it could be because Flock is pretty much based off of Firefox and Chrome, but anyway, cool feature.

Yea if i remember correctly flock is just a modified firefox,literally

 

[AdamC]

There's another app that does the reverse and send links from Phone to Chrome, Android2Cloud.

Android2cloud Opens URLs from Your Phone in Chrome

Thanks a bunch. Heard about this one as well in the news a couple weeks back and couldn't remember the name. Silly me for thinking it would be called Phone to Chrome

 

[makisupa79]

Awesome feature. I use it for googlemaps and to preload this or other forums that I know I'll want to read while waiting in line or elsewhere when wasting time.

 

[stainlessray]

It would be cool if you could authorize certain people to send certain types of info. For example my buddy and I text back and forth about all kinds of things, very often involving certain web pages. It would be very convenient for me to authorize him to be able to send HTML links only. If the app allowed this an authorization of a particular individual could be removed as easily as it was added, preventing any potential disasters. Not sure if this would ever happen but it sounds potentially useful.

i was thinking the same thing.... why can't it be extended to send to anyone in your contacts list? seems like a obvious next step for this. would seriously increase the usability

 

[Raadius]

Just set this up on FireFox, easy, painless. Tested it, works perfect, sent the link to my phone in 3 secs!!!

 

[Frohoss]

Turns out if you highlight text and then push the Google Chrom to Phone Extension button, it will send.

i did this and it did send, however, the notification states "copied desktop clipboard"

so, now what? where can i view this? when i click on the "copied desktop clipboard" notifications it just goes away.

i don't know where to look for it now

 

[Deleted User]

Is there not a Google made extension/add-on for FireFox?

 

[Joppie]

Is there not a Google made extension/add-on for FireFox?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/161941/

 

[flyjbaker]

Biggest use for me so far is to load up bookmarks in the browser....much easier than typing on the phone...

 

[NicksGarage]

i did this and it did send, however, the notification states "copied desktop clipboard"

so, now what? where can i view this? when i click on the "copied desktop clipboard" notifications it just goes away.

i don't know where to look for it now

When it says that, it means that it put it on the clipboard on the phone so you can paste it into a text message, e-mail, note or wherever you can paste info from the clipboard. It's just a notification at that point.

It does this when it can't figure out that it's a phone number or a web address or map or other known data type.

 

[VGPOP]

I cannot find Chrome to phone anywhere in the extensions page.

Anyone can tell me where the heck is it?

EDIT: Never mind, I used the Firefox version of it.


It is instantaneously with Firefox (I am using Firefox 4 beta). I go to a website in my computer, click on the phone icon and my EVO receives it instantly. (no delays whatsoever)

Not only that, even if I am home it opens browser automatically and go the page right away.

This is really a good feature to have.