But being able to mouse directly your phone’s Gallery app, copy a photo, and then drag it into a PowerPoint presentation or design document offers an immediacy that other methods don’t. There are plenty of potential answers: emailing the photo or document to yourself, uploading it to the cloud, and more. Here, the advantage is that Multi Control replaces the good old fashioned sneakernet as a handy solution to the “I just took a photo with my phone, now what?” question. See the mouse arrow? It may seem like a stupid smartphone trick, but Samsung Multi Control is pretty useful in the right situations. You can also copy and paste data from your phone/tablet to your PC, and/or use your PC keyboard to type into your phone or tablet. (You’ll find it within the Samsung Settings app > Connected devices.) This is a bit different than Second Screen, since you can actually “mouse over” to your phone - yes, your mouse cursor appears on your phone screen, and you can interact with it, too.

The only drawback is that it turns the Tab into a “dumb” display, hiding its Android filesystem and interface.Ĭontrol your tablet and phone via your Galaxy Book: Samsung also offers a Windows app called Samsung Multi Control, which allows you to treat your tablet and phone(s) as screens that you can control with your PC. While video transmission doesn’t seem to be perfect (there were some dropped frames, even optimized) this is an excellent way to relax with a tablet on a plane or train and then use the Tab as an additional laptop monitor later that night. Samsung’s Second Screen app spans your notebook screen across the Galalxy Tab, turning it into a second display.

Samsung video editor app