{"id":322612,"date":"2019-10-09T09:44:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=322612"},"modified":"2019-10-09T09:49:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:49:48","slug":"windows-10-now-lets-you-make-phone-calls-from-your-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/322612-windows-10-now-lets-you-make-phone-calls-from-your-pc.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 now lets you make phone calls from your PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsexperience\/2019\/10\/08\/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-18999\/\">update<\/a> <\/strong>for Windows 10 Preview that lets users answer and make phone calls on their Android device via their PC.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Calls&#8221; feature was originally announced at the Samsung Unpacked event in August, before being showcased at Microsoft&#8217;s Surface event last week.<\/p>\n<p>A pre-release version is now available to Fast Ring testers via the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview build and will be rolled out to Windows Insiders in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The Calls feature runs on Windows 10&#8217;s Your Phone application, which manages the pairing of your smartphone to your PC, and utilizes the computer&#8217;s speakers, microphone and screen to enable full phone call functionality.<\/p>\n<p>Users can use answer, decline and make phone calls via their PC, in addition to diverting calls to the voicemail inbox and viewing their call history.<\/p>\n<p>The feature requires a device running Android 7.0 Nougat or higher and a Windows 10 PC with Bluetooth.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said that as this is an early build of the feature, there are currently still some problems.<\/p>\n<p>These include rare instances of connectivity loss between the PC and phone that require the user to repeat the pairing process.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/322240-windows-10-is-killing-windows-7.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows 10 is killing Windows 7<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released an update for Windows 10 Preview that lets users answer and make phone calls on their Android device via their PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":322632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,3198,19103,26970],"class_list":["post-322612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-pc","tag-phone","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322644,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322612\/revisions\/322644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}