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Being able to see and use your Note 5 on your computer has many benefits. You can easily drag and drop files between the two devices, respond to messages with a full-sized keyboard, and get your phone's notifications on your desktop. Thanks to Samsung's cool SideSync software, access to all that is a simple setup away. Here's how to use SideSync on your Galaxy Note 5.

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1. Download and install SideSync on your computer by going to Samsung's SideSync web page.

2. Open SideSync on both your Note 5 and laptop or computer, and make sure they are on the same Wi-Fi network.

3. Find and select your phone on your computer, or vice versa.

4. Click the phone icon on the top left of the widget at the bottom right of your screen. This opens up a virtual version of your Note 5's screen on your desktop. Tapping any of the three icons for My Files, Music and Gallery next to the phone icon opens up that app in the virtual phone.

5. Drag any file you want to transfer from your desktop to your phone (or vice versa).

6. Click and hold on a file in the virtual phone to select it for transfer. Select as many files as you want by clicking each one.

7. Press and hold again on the selected files until the SideSync logo pops up. This means the files are ready to be dragged across onto your computer.

8. Tap the downward arrow on the top left of the screen to pull up more options.

9. Select Always On Top to make your phone stay above every other window so it doesn't disappear under your dozens of open apps. You can also edit rotation and the transparency of the window by selecting Rotate or Window Transparency, or snap a screenshot of your phone (not desktop) with the Capture option.

Enabling Presentation Mode lets you control your Note 5's screen from the computer — you'll be able to see what's happening on both the phone and desktop.

When your phone and computer are connected, your Note 5 will mirror whatever is being done on the virtual version. If you pick up your phone and do something else with it, the version on your computer goes blank, and can only be used when you activate it on your computer again (with one tap on the screen).

By Mike Wheeler

For those of us who would you like our smartphone and PC to have a symbiotic relationship Samsung has released the SideSync application for its ATIV range of PCs.

By Mike Wheeler

For those of us who would you like our smartphone and PC to have a symbiotic relationship Samsung has released the SideSync application for its ATIV range of PCs.

In order for the application to work you’ll need a Samsung smartphone, and an ATIV-enabled PC – that’s it. We understand where Samsung is coming from with this technology, especially if you are one of those busy people who find it a drag swapping out between devices.

How does it work in practical terms? Well if your Samsung smartphone has the Android Jelly Bean operating system you can connect both devices wirelessly, but if the system is older then you will have to do so via USB cable connection. As you would expect the synchronisation is pretty quick. A virtual version of your phone will appear on the desktop and for all intents and purposes it can be used like your smartphone except you can tap on the keyboard of the PC to use it. And yes, this means you can answer your emails, SMS’s and also drag and drop files from the desktop onto the virtual smartphone. It all seemed a bit weird to us at first, but once we got used to it, you realised how much time this can save.

So how far does the synchronisation of the devices go? If you plug your headset into the PC, you can make calls via the smartphone through the PC. We noticed that there was no drop in sound quality, which we thought might happen due to using the PC to take the call.

An interesting aside is that the technology will automatically back up files on your phone to the PC without being asked. At first we weren’t too sure if we like this or not, but ee’d say we like it more than not. In the past I have lost files because I forgot to back them up, but in this case if you have a hard drive that is reasonably full already, then maybe automatically putting other files on it might not suit some users. Then again, if you have a portable hard drive or cloud service, this minor problem could be avoided.

Overall, we like the idea behind SideSync because the reality is that tech-savvy people (and let’s face it, every generation from X onward is only going to get more so) want more integration with their gear so on that score Samsung are ahead of the game.

Pros: Allows you to integrate your PC and smartphone; great for people on the go
Cons: Only works with Samsung smartphones

4.2 Shacks Out Of 5

If you’re a Samsung mobile phone user for some months, then we are pretty confident you should have heard of the Samsung SideSync tool. As you own a Samsung phone with the most recent version of SideSync installed, you may download and install the Windows client.

As soon as you’ve launched both apps, you will find there are two ways by which you can connect your Samsung Galaxy device to your computer via Wi-Fi or utilizing a USB cable.

You have to be sure that the PC and the mobile phone are using the same Wi-Fi connection. You can pair the PC and the mobile device with either a QR code or a three digit PIN which you must enter in the desktop application, and it is possible to enjoy whatever you’re looking at on your mobile device directly on your computer monitor.

Besides, as long as the software is running, you will get warnings at whatever point you get a telephone call and send/receive instant messages. The main difference is that you can do all these tasks more straightforwardly using the PC mouse and keyboard.