A new add-in is in development which will allow you to manage your home server directly from Apple’s iPhone. Whilst HP’s MediaSmart application for iPhone allows you to stream media from your home server to the iPhone, Brent Friedman’s forthcoming WHS Mobile for iPhone goes one better, allowing you to view and manage the files on your home server directly on your iPhone.
The iPhone application is due to be published in the coming weeks, and Brent has stated that it will be released without charge. Can’t wait!
More Info: WHS Mobile for iPhone
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25. June 2009 at 11:55 pm
Awesome! Is this a replacement for the iStream app? Or just an upgrade to the iStream app?
26. June 2009 at 12:07 am
Keep us posted!
26. June 2009 at 12:09 am
This is an app from Brent Friedman. It is not related to the HP istream app. Brent has also developed addins called TV Manager, WHS Mobile, DVD Manager, Tab Creator.
26. June 2009 at 2:22 am
Thanks for the info DieHard. Looking forward to this one!
26. June 2009 at 3:03 am
Can us WebOS users get the same for the Palm Pre? That would be awesome!!!!
25. July 2009 at 12:35 pm
I AGREE! Lets get an app for the Palm Pre! The Pre kicks the iPhone's ass!
21. October 2009 at 9:42 am
Me too!
26. June 2009 at 7:08 am
It's a shame it looks like it's not for un-jailbroken iPhones – I wonder what the market for this sort of thing actually is? I'd certainly happy fork out the price of a pint or two for something like this, especially if I could do a shutdown of the server without bringing up the Windows GUI every time.
There are surely enough iPhones out there, but enough of them with WHS owners?
26. June 2009 at 10:50 am
And it's pretty much official. Windows Mobile is dead. Guess it's time to start looking for an iPhone or iPod Touch…
26. June 2009 at 6:33 am
I can vouch for wm being dead. Long time wm fan and user for 5+ years. Got the new 3 gs and love it. Just the better intergration of exchange and contacts alone is enough. Plus the brower is awesome. Oh it has a big screen and huge memory. Sure you have to have a data plan, but why would you get a smart phone and not have a data plan. I can see wifi only, but for me I don’t have access to wifi durning the day.
There some things that miss. Spell check, different signatures per email account, calendar snooze, and Today screen. But there are apps available for this, just have to jailbreak. Which isn’t available for the new model yet.
All in all the iPhone just makes sense!
26. June 2009 at 5:39 pm
Well, an iPhone is great for people with infinite amounts of money. The iPhone itself is prohibitively expensive (_anything_ over $200 is too expensive, imo), then there's that painfully and unnecessarily expensive data plan. With a PPC + "dumb phone" I can squeeze cheap data service out of my provider because all they see is "just a dumb phone". Then there's Tomtom for PPC which, with a Bluetooth GPS, turns my PPC into a navigation system (I have a Velcro pad on my PPC and my dash, and I actually use my PPC mostly in the car; I don't think it's charged from a PC in a year!). The same thing on the iPhone, you guessed it, needs an expensive data plan. Yeah, there's a hellova lot of apps for the iPhone, but… dang man, why did everyone drop the PPC so bad? =(
26. June 2009 at 6:39 pm
$200 is not that expensive – given what the product does. Remember with the Razor first came out. It was just a phone and was $600.00, thats crazy. Then there is the data plan. Yes it is $30.00. But the phone is heavily subsidized. Say AT&T pays Apple $400 for every iPhone, that puts them $200 in the hole… even before you figure in soft costs.
I use it with my job, that is how I justify the data. Some can, some can't justify it. To each there own. But I will tell you, don't even pick one up and use it for a couple of hours. You will realize why WM is a terrible OS now and the iPhone is so great.
Jailbreak it then that even opens up even more possibilities!
26. June 2009 at 9:42 pm
Oh, I've used one, and I definitely hate the junky, clunky, unstable, barely usable Windows Mobile OS. But the thing I don't like about the iPhone is that practically everything you touch asks you to somehow pay for something, either in data usage or application subscriptions/purchases. That's what bugs me.
26. June 2009 at 1:02 pm
I assume from the screen shots that this is just for management? I'd love to have an iPhone streaming app for the WHS.
There's also no reason why this can't be submitted to the App Store for un-kailbroken devices.
26. June 2009 at 6:41 pm
Run ORB on your WHS and then get ORB Live for the iPhone. There is a free version ORB Live Lite – allows you to watch three files within a folder structure. It is for testing only. There are some reviews on youtube.
4. August 2009 at 10:34 am
Any news on this app for the iPhone. I’m saddky checking the app store each day. Did it get rejected ?
Micky
22. September 2009 at 3:37 pm
Why don't try http://www.simplifymedia.com, works great on WHS and costs almost nothing. Works with music and photos. I'm just waiting for videos. It does not only works anywhere via mobile network it also works via your local Wi-Fi.