One demands the other. It's hard to get real work done on a smartphone—that teensy keyboard!—but just try whipping your laptop out on the street. Put the two together and you have an ideal mobile office, dorm room, or globe-girdling crime organization. (That is, if you're in a Bond movie.)
Most smartphones and laptops can work together at a very basic level, transferring files over a USB cable, through Bluetooth, or using various cloud-based services. Every smartphone platform can sync music and videos with PCs, even if it's just via drag and drop.
Things get more convenient and more powerful when your smartphone and laptop share an OS family. Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 are like big and little siblings, with similar user interfaces, great syncing, and shared Microsoft apps. Microsoft business
products like Exchange and SharePoint work better with Microsoft-powered devices than with any others. Apple products tend to cluster together, bonded by iCloud, Genius Bars, AirPlay streaming, and a version of iTunes that doesn't crash your computer all the time. Likewise, Google's experimental Chromebooks force you to buy into all of Google's cloud services, so you'd better have an Android phone.
products like Exchange and SharePoint work better with Microsoft-powered devices than with any others. Apple products tend to cluster together, bonded by iCloud, Genius Bars, AirPlay streaming, and a version of iTunes that doesn't crash your computer all the time. Likewise, Google's experimental Chromebooks force you to buy into all of Google's cloud services, so you'd better have an Android phone.
Beyond those obvious pairings, though, there are laptops and phones whose spirits work well together. A smart person on a budget can grab a Walmart laptop and a MetroPCS phone and climb up in the world. Some phones and laptops are flashy, while others are humbly functional. Some are sleek, while others could politely be described as Devices of Size. Folks who gravitate toward one genre of phone generally like the same qualities in a laptop.
So, as the sommeliers of tech, let us suggest some fine laptop and cell phone pairings. Pull up a chair. We'll make assumptions about you, but it's OK if you don't fit these molds; suggest your own laptop and cell phone combinations in the comments below. All of the PCs and phones in this story were tested and highly rated by the PCMag.com staff.
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