Yes, Phone Calling in Windows 10 is Coming to Non-Samsung Handsets

Credit: Ajith

One of the bigger surprises at Samsung’s Note 10 launch was that Microsoft’s Your Phone app would support phone calling on Samsung handsets. It was unclear at the time whether this feature would be exclusive to Samsung devices, but now it appears that we can confirm that it will not.

“Your Phone app with Calls & dialer support, I can confirm it is working,” an India-based Twitter user named Ajith tweeted yesterday. Accompanying his tweet are screenshots of the functionality, which is tied to a Realme 3 Pro handset.

Based on the shots, it appears that Microsoft will add a new Calls entry to the list of options in the Your Phone navigation bar. Other options include Photos, Photos (new) (which is itself interesting), Messages, Notifications, and Phone screen. That latter option is currently in preview, and it only works with select Android handsets.

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If history is any guide, we can expect to see Calls appear in preview form in Your Phone soon, perhaps originally in Windows 10 version 20H1 Insider builds. But it should spread quickly if not immediately to other Windows 10 versions as well.

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  • evrgrn

    08 September, 2019 - 9:08 am

    <p>Does the call use your PC mic and speakers?</p>

    • Paul Thurrott

      Premium Member
      08 September, 2019 - 9:18 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#462276">In reply to evrgrn:</a></em></blockquote><p>I only have the screenshot to go from now, but I assume so.</p>

    • mfosa

      09 September, 2019 - 12:55 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#462276">In reply to evrgrn:</a></em></blockquote><p>If it is using the same principle as Dell Connect, then yes. I have been using that with my Surface Laptop and calls get piped in. </p>

    • Rob_Wade

      09 September, 2019 - 10:11 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#462276">In reply to evrgrn:</a></em></blockquote><p>One would assume. WHICH IS WHY MS SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON GETTING FULL CORTANA FUNCTIONALITY ON ANDROID. I can use my Windows Phone completely hands-free, including calling people. </p>

  • RobertJasiek

    08 September, 2019 - 9:50 am

    <p>Phone calls in regular Windows have been overdue for decades but better late than never. Do we need a SIM card? Are there USB-SIM sticks? When will Windows tablets have SIM?</p>

    • rm

      09 September, 2019 - 8:12 am

      <blockquote><a href="#462300"><em>In reply to RobertJasiek:You need a SIM card in your Android phone…</em></a></blockquote><p><br></p>

      • RobertJasiek

        09 September, 2019 - 9:04 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#462660">In reply to RM:</a></em></blockquote><p>I see, thanks. It would be too nice if also Windows itself got phone functionality. Seems we need to wait some more decades while using 2 instead of 1 devices.</p>

    • Rob_Wade

      09 September, 2019 - 10:10 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#462300">In reply to RobertJasiek:</a></em></blockquote><p>That's a completely different thing. Having the actual phone stack in Windows 10 is what's needed in order to fully utilize SIM or eSIM with a carrier. This future Your Phone update apparently satisfies some twisted need to make calls through your existing phone. JUST PICK UP YOUR FRIGGIN' PHONE, people. Or, if MS got off its collective butts, they could make Cortana MUCH better on Android and you could do EVERYTHING HANDS FREE. But idiots run the company, so….</p>

  • terry jones

    08 September, 2019 - 10:17 am

    <p>Flashback time.</p><p>It got a lot of hate back then, but it worked great for me.</p><p><br></p><p><img 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    • stevestoj

      08 September, 2019 - 10:26 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#462312">In reply to terry jones:</a></em></blockquote><p>The first "windows phone"? LOL. Sorry I had to say it.</p>

    • chuck willemsen

      Premium Member
      08 September, 2019 - 10:42 am

      <blockquote><a href="#462312"><em>In reply to terry jones:</em></a><em> Same, mine worked well and integrated with Outlook to announce verbally who was calling.</em></blockquote><p><br></p>

  • stevestoj

    08 September, 2019 - 10:21 am

    <p>I mainly work in a home office on a computer all day, and the messages and calls functions address key scenarios for me. I wear a headset most if the day to take MSTeams calls and listen to music on my PC. When I get a call on my cell, I hate having to switch to the phone, pick it up, etc. It interrupts my flow.</p><p><br></p><p>I hope the calls function is solid when they release it.</p><p><br></p><p>I have a Google Pixel XL 2, so this is encouraging to see that they may support other phones besides Samsung.</p>

  • dontbeevil

    08 September, 2019 - 11:43 am

    <p>Really good UWP app</p>

  • drachemitch

    08 September, 2019 - 1:11 pm

    <p>I can’t believe it’s taken Microsoft so long to do this. Texting and calling has been part of Bluetooth since it’s inception, and MacOS had it through the Address Book in MacOS 10 20 years ago (until Apple removed it because the iPhone didn’t have BT).</p><p><br></p>

    • Rob_Wade

      09 September, 2019 - 10:07 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#462350">In reply to drachemitch:</a></em></blockquote><p>Too lazy to dial your phone?</p>

    • rbgaynor

      09 September, 2019 - 6:14 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#462350">In reply to drachemitch:</a></em></blockquote><p>iPhone has had Bluetooth since the very first model, not sure what you mean by "because the iPhone didn’t have BT." macOS also has had support for calling and texting for years, and still does.</p>

  • sushant

    08 September, 2019 - 5:28 pm

    <p>I don’t understand why there needs to be a android app for doing this?!?</p><p>Why can’t windows use Bluetooth to turn your pc into a hands free device so at the end of the day ANY PHONE including iPhone can connect to it thinking it’s paired to a car?!?</p>

    • rm

      09 September, 2019 - 8:10 am

      <blockquote><a href="#462457"><em>In reply to sushant:</em></a><em>I don't think you can display a phones screen on a PC using Bluetooth.</em></blockquote><p><br></p>

  • maktaba

    08 September, 2019 - 7:28 pm

    <p>Can we say at least now that Windows phone is dead?</p><p><br></p>

    • jlv632a

      08 September, 2019 - 8:23 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#462483">In reply to Maktaba:</a></em></blockquote><p>No. It ends on 10th Dec 2019 </p>

    • Rob_Wade

      09 September, 2019 - 10:06 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#462483">In reply to Maktaba:</a></em></blockquote><p>I'm probably the biggest Windows phone fan–I still use mine–and I haven't said it's not dead. But the fact remains my Windows phone is capable of things neither Android or iPhone are capable of, especially the way I prefer to use it, and likely NEVER WILL BE. My biggest frustration is that Microsoft, and the majority of, dare I say ignorant, customers don't see the value of those features, so MS will never advance them on Android or iPhone.</p>

      • nbplopes

        09 September, 2019 - 7:56 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#462712">In reply to Rob_Wade:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Dare I say that with your superior intelligence you must feel very lonely in this world.</p>

      • Singingwolf

        10 September, 2019 - 7:53 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#462712">In reply to Rob_Wade:</a></em></blockquote><p>I agree. But WhatsApp will die in Dec so we have no choice </p>

    • dontbeevil

      09 September, 2019 - 1:20 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#462483">In reply to Maktaba:</a></em></blockquote><p>but we cannot say that UWP is dead</p>

  • Rob_Wade

    09 September, 2019 - 10:04 am

    <p>I don't see the point of any of this. Seriously, people, are we THAT lazy that the PHONE SITTING RIGHT ON OUR DESK TO IS DIFFICULT TO USE? I don't care WHAT platform you prefer, you can and SHOULD have your pictures automatically backing up to whatever cloud service you use (in my case, OneDrive). So, having a special app just access the pictures is just stupid to me. Same with messages or actually DIALING. This is a solution in search of a problem.</p>

    • jgraebner

      Premium Member
      09 September, 2019 - 2:36 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#462711">In reply to Rob_Wade:</a></em></blockquote><p>What if the phone isn't sitting on your desk, but is instead in a bag or even in another room? How about if you have a headset that is connected to your Windows computer (for teleconferencing or even just for playing music) and you don't want to have to switch the connection over to your phone when making a call? What about if you want to quickly take a photo on your phone and add it to an email or document that you are writing on your computer? </p><p><br></p><p>Those are just a few of the most obvious uses for this kind of interactivity between a phone and a laptop/desktop computer. </p>

      • nbplopes

        09 September, 2019 - 8:04 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#462803">In reply to jgraebner:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>I use call relay between devices all the time. Smartphone, PC, Tablet and smartwatch.</p><p><br></p><p>Between the smartphone and PC is specially handy in the office. Starting and receiving without leaving my eyes from what I'm doing on screen while having the conversation. Look up for information, immediately send a message or email with data etc. The tablet its nice while in reading comfortably anywhere. Smartwatch while I need to answer phone calls on the fly while keeping my hands free (especially when I'm in the kitchen cooking ….).</p><p><br></p><p>It's the kind of thing when you have you find plenty of practical use cases.</p><p><br></p><p>Mind you knowing Microsoft it will be an implementation so green that defeats the purpose … if and by the time they get it working in way that one can trust, one will be so insecure of its operation that will no longer give it a chance. Eventually it will be dropped grounding the decision on statistics showing that few people use it after all, not that it was really badly implemented. And Rob will be able to say that he was right all along 🙂 MS history is full of stuff like this. I can envision that phone keep on ringing "forever" after the call its accepted on the PC and vice versa, much like it happened with Skype with XBOX One, it was so annoying that I disabled the them thing in the console. And that is if it rings reliably.</p><p><br></p><p>PS: By the way I agree that an app to access photos on the phone its not really useful because there are better ways to do it in a transparent way. But this is not comparable to voice relay for several reasons, one of them is that both are used in tendem at the same time, each augmented the other in function to achieve a goal that none could do alone in ways so convenient. </p>

        • hallmanac

          Premium Member
          14 September, 2019 - 3:27 pm

          <blockquote><a href="#462961"><em>In reply to nbplopes:</em></a><em> Brilliant.</em></blockquote><p><br></p>

  • bearded_wacko

    Premium Member
    09 September, 2019 - 11:06 am

    <p>Dear Rob_Wade: This article seems like a small issue in the grand scheme of things to get so angry over. I hope your day gets better and the tension eases and you can move on. Because tech companies always do weird things, that's what keeps us employed. </p>

  • RobertJasiek

    09 September, 2019 - 2:41 pm

    <blockquote><em><a href="#462802">In reply to SvenJ:</a></em></blockquote><p>I overlooked this because I studied the conditions of Skype and Cortana. They violate privacy and related laws so I do not use them.</p>

  • craigb

    09 September, 2019 - 7:57 pm

    <p>I love this idea. I just hope the often buggy application gets to work smoothly. Ideally it would support a USB connection instead of only WiFi and data. Not sure if technically that is possible but with Dex, Flow and other wired connections you'd think this would be possible. And it makes sense that you could leave you phone plugged into your PC and keep it charged plus have a seamless Your Phone experience. This Your Phone app is still a work in progress but it definately has its appeal if you can work, take calls, make calls, send and receive text messages etc plus see the contents of your phone screen without having to pick up the phone and keep working on your PC. Compliments to Microsoft on this one.</p>

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