Owning a Win laptop, I would like to open a Line account, but don't have...

[Tercera_Edad]

...a 'smartphone' required for that - and quite consciously don't want one   .)

 

 

 

Is this setting known to any of the honoured forum members? 

 

I read that it would be sufficient to do the registration using an s-phone, from then on rely on the laptop: 
https://help.line.me/line/desktop/?contentId=50001182 

(pls copy/paste, can't see how to produce with reasonable time effort a clickable link)

 

This poses the question if a combination of my data and someone else's phone number is practically doable? Of course, one does not want to henceforth become some kind of 'digital twin' - the phone owner receiving messages directed to me.

 

Another option could be to use a SIM of mine for this process in his phone, but who could be willing to perform a 10-min SIM swap? 

 

Would there be a realistic workaround, and what could it consist of? 

 

 

 

[topt]

6 hours ago, Tercera_Edad said:

Would there be a realistic workaround, and what could it consist of? 

I don't think so - but happy to be proved wrong by someone else.

 

Also if you ever had an issue you would probably need access on a phone to resolve it.

Someone else's phone - if they already have Line then I don't think that will work unless it can be installed in some sort of separate 'work' profile or similar. 

[Tercera_Edad]

That might be the case - or it might not. I would actually have preferred to meet someone who himself has gone through this situation. But it doesn't seem to be my lucky day. And that day started the moment the new owners chose to shut down Skype, which was simply perfect...

 

[Ralf001]

Maybe try an android emulator on the laptop.

 

[topt]

1 hour ago, Tercera_Edad said:

That might be the case - or it might not. I would actually have preferred to meet someone who himself has gone through this situation. But it doesn't seem to be my lucky day. And that day started the moment the new owners chose to shut down Skype, which was simply perfect...

 

What has Skype got to do with Line?

Plenty of other VoIP based PC solutions to replace Skype if that is what you are referring to otherwise no idea what you are talking about.....