
I like that the app shows a feed of your transfer activity between the phone and the Chromebook.

I took the below picture with my iPhone in the HP QuickDrop app and then used the app to shoot it over to the Chromebook. I tested all of the functions in HP QuickDrop and they worked flawlessly. Below is the start screen and a screen capture of a photo transfer from my iPhone to the HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook. You’re taken to a screen with three action buttons at the bottom to send a file, take a picture and send it, or create and send a text note. Once the app is installed on your mobile phone, you pair your phone, and review permissions for data access: Files, photos, camera, etc… And that’s it. I did this on my iPhone but there’s an Android version as well. First, you scan the onscreen QR code to get the HP QuickDrop mobile app. The HP QuickDrop setup process is simple: Just open the pre-installed app, which is a Progressive Web App, and follow the instructions. Now, with HP QuickDrop and the HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook, I at least get a little bit of data connectivity between phone and laptop. Why? It only supports Android phones and I use an iPhone. That’s in addition to the wireless file and photo sharing HP QuickDrop adds.īut I don’t use Phone Hub on my Chromebooks. Phone Hub can certainly do more: Quickly enabling the phone’s hotspot feature, showing phone notifications, and full text messaging support. I think of it as a less-featured version of Google’s Phone Hub but it’s still useful. And I hope that HP includes it with all of its Chromebooks in the future. I believe this is the first Chromebook to have HP QuickDrop support. And it’s pre-installed on HP’s flagship ChromeOS laptop so I can transfer iPhone photos to the HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook.

It lets you wirelessly share photos and files from either an Android handset or an iPhone to an HP Windows PC. How did I completely miss the HP QuickDrop app in my HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook review? This is an app that’s been around for a while.
