It’s happened to all of us. You’ll be reading an interesting article on your laptop or looking at an image that you want to send to your device, but instead of hooking up your smartphone to your computer or setting up a Bluetooth connection you either send yourself an email or in most cases just forget about sharing that piece of content all together. Google solved this problem with their Android devices with a browser extension called “Chrome to Phone” that does exactly what it says on the tin. It sends images and links from Google Chrome straight to your Android device. Nokia has now done the same thing, but they’ve given it a fancy name. It’s called “Nokia Drop” and it’ll work on all Symbian^3 and a handful of Symbian^1 devices, including the N97 and N97 Mini. You install the app on your phone, then an extension in either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, and you can send images, links, and even remotely set your wallpaper up. Check out the video demo below done by Mark Guim from The Nokia Blog to get a better idea of what Nokia Drop is capable of.
There’s one platform where such functionality is sorely lacking and it’s sadly Apple’s iOS. You need iTunes installed to get anything done with your iPhone and worst of all it has to be connected via a USB cable. It’s bloody 2011 and Apple seemingly hasn’t heard of this thing called the internet. We’ll see how Apple will tackle this in 2 months at their Worldwide Developer Conference where they’ve promised to show off the future of both Mac OS X and iOS. Fancy new gestures are likely to be shown off, and that’s nice, but solving the connectivity issues, as well as throwing in a new notification system and way to multitask would be appreciated as well.