News · 9 Sep 2011 · MTW Editorial Team
HTC has just released two of its newest Windows Phone 7.5 Mango applications today. The HTC Watch video rental/streaming service application came out last week and today both the HTC Locations and HTC Connected Media apps are finally ready to be downloaded. The HTC Locations application is more or else a WP7 port of the old HTC Footprints stuff that was introduced a while ago on Windows Mobile 6. Nothing really super exciting. The second app is the most interesting one: HTC Connected Media is the DLNA media sharing hub that will allow you to broadcast your device’s multimedia content (Music, videos, pictures) on any DLNA equipped hardware (TV, Windows 7 / Vista PC etc). Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to work on current Windows Phone 7 HTC handsets but may be operational if you have flashed yours with the released leaked firmwares.
Please report back your findings if you currently have an HTC handset running the leaked firmware and the HTC Connect application. It will be interesting to know if DLNA is working on the first generation of handsets and not only artificially restricted to the HTC Titan and HTC Radar (as this is only a software thing and shouldn’t require any additional hardware).
UPDATE: According to IAN in the comments below DLNA works if your HTC handsets is running the latest firmware.
source: Marketplace via wpcentreal
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