Users Guide

Using Alienware Mobile Connect
You can click or tap the hamburger icon to extend the left pane to display the names of all the icons. Use the back arrow icon to go to
the previous screen.
Launch the Alienware Mobile Connect application on your computer
You can launch the Alienware Mobile Connect application from the Start menu. If you have a Alienware Mobile Connect desktop
icon, you can also launch the application by double-clicking or tapping the icon.
Alienware Mobile Connect application is configured to start automatically when you turn on your computer. If your smartphone is
paired using the Alienware Mobile Connect application and if it is within the Bluetooth range, the smartphone is connected
automatically to the computer. You need not run the application on the phone or the computer for the features to work. If you
manually disconnect your smartphone from the computer, it is not connected back automatically.
You can also prevent the Alienware Mobile Connect application from launching automatically on the computer by going to Settings
> Startup.
Notifications
Alienware Mobile Connect can display the notifications that appear on your smartphone, such as social media, traffic, or weather
updates. The notifications are displayed on your computer as a popup on the upper-right corner of the screen. You can also click or
tap the Notifications icon to view them. The notifications are grouped into a single stack per app.
The following features and settings are available:
• You can modify the size of the popup notifications from Settings > Notifications.
• You can open or reply to messages from popup notifications.
• You can answer or reject incoming calls from popup notifications. You can also reject the call with a text message.
• You can control the privacy level of the notifications from Settings.
• You can select the Hide notifications' content (reveal on mouse hover) check box to keep the content of notifications private.
The notification content is displayed when you hover your mouse pointer over the notification.
• You can reply to a notification message from within the notification.
• You can click or tap the popup notification and interact with a third-party app using the screen mirroring window.
• You can mute all the notifications of a specific app.
• You can clear a notification from both your smartphone and the computer using Alienware Mobile Connect application.
NOTE: The popup window for a notification on the upper right corner of the screen is only available for high priority
notifications.
Phone
You can use the Phone icon to make and receive phone calls from your computer. The call is routed from the phone in the same way
as with Bluetooth headsets. Alienware Mobile Connect uses the default microphone and speakers that are connected to your
computer. Your smartphone must be within the Bluetooth range to use this feature. You have the following two tabs in Phone:
• Dialer—Displays a keypad that you can use to dial a phone number. You can view suggestions in the dual pane window from your
contact list when you start typing the name of a saved contact.
• Contacts—Displays the contact list from your smartphone. In the dual pane window, you can either click or tap the call button to
call the contact or click or tap the message icon to send a text message.
Make a call
Steps
1. Click or tap the Phone icon.
2. Select a contact from your smartphone using the Contacts tab or click or tap the Dialer tab to dial a phone number.
You can view suggestions in the dual pane window from your contact list when you start typing the name of a saved contact.
3. Click or tap the call icon to make the call.
NOTE: You can also click or tap the message icon to send a text message.
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