Comments on: iPhone Client for Windows Home Server Coming Soon

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:42:32 +0000

Me too!

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:37:53 +0000

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.

By: Micky

Micky — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:34:14 +0000

Any news on this app for the iPhone. I’m saddky checking the app store each day. Did it get rejected ?
Micky

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:35:19 +0000

I AGREE! Lets get an app for the Palm Pre! The Pre kicks the iPhone's ass!

By: FalconFour

FalconFour — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:42:41 +0000

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.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:41:20 +0000

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.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:39:17 +0000

$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!

By: FalconFour

FalconFour — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:39:58 +0000

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? =(

By: Scopique

Scopique — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:02:23 +0000

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.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:33:35 +0000

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!

By: FalconFour

FalconFour — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:50:07 +0000

And it's pretty much official. Windows Mobile is dead. Guess it's time to start looking for an iPhone or iPod Touch…

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