<p>Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt this year is underway, and pplconnect is one of the companies exhibiting today. This Montreal-based startup, co-founded by Jenviev Azzolin and Densil D'Sa, is looking to make your entire smartphone a virtual device, accessible anywhere, at any time, from any device so long as you have an Internet connection. They're launching their private beta for the first time at Disrupt.</p><p>Remote access to devices like PCs is already common practice and has been for a long time. Generally with these setups, you can actually gain access to your machine itself, streamed to whatever screen you happen to have to handy. pplconnect is similar in theory, but very different in practice. As D'Sa explained to me in an interview, it's more about providing access to all the content and basic services of your smartphone regardless of where you are, but with a native interface tailored to each environment.</p><p>On Android and via a web-based interface for now, you'll gain access to the ability to call with your own number, send and receive text messages, view stored media and even temporarily transform a friend's device into your own if you're in a pinch.</p><p>"Our system is actually a complete phone on its own, so you can use it as a standalone smartphone," D'Sa said. "So you could use it independently, but the idea is we link this with your hardware smartphone, and your contacts and information are accessible and usable in every web-enabled device. If you receive a text on one, you can receive it on all devices at once."</p><p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/09/pplconnect-launches-its-private-beta-for-a-virtual-smartphone-platform-you-can-use-anywhere/">Keep reading...</a></p>