Apple has a history of being a bit random on some of their app approvals over the years, but they’ve been fairly consistent banning one category – apps that let you control bittorrent. Fortunately for torrenters, Microsoft has no such qualms, with several torrent controlling apps on the Zune Marketplace already.
uController is an Australian-made $3 app currently available that lets you start, pause and stop torrents, monitor the torrent’s speed and progress and check out the finer details of the torrent within the app. Future updates will include the ability to add new torrents and customise the UI.
It only works with the Windows uTorrent client at this stage, but considering it does work, suddenly makes Windows Phone 7 a much more appealing option for passionate torrenters.
[GordonHome - Thanks Brad!]
matt
Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 12:15 PMgood to see.
Chris Lee
Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 12:26 PMAlready got mine. It’s awesome checking up on my torrents on the train.
MDolley
Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 12:35 PMThere are a few developers who are regulars on Whirlpool. I believe that the developer of this app (dgaust) is also working on a WMC remote app.
dgaust
Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 1:03 PMHey free advertising cool :D. you forgot to mention it supports ‘live’ Tile Updates :D
Also codejoker another Aussie dev has put together Torrent Remote which is also on the Zune store.
Mememe
Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 3:07 PMYay for Aussie devs! Great job on the app, haven’t got my WP7 yet (current contract up in a few months) but when I do I can guarantee this will be one of my first purchases.
Sicarius123
Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 2:40 PMShould work with the utorrent on my windows home server :D
Bill
Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 4:19 PMFYI… There are torrent controlling Apps for Apple iPhone only you will need to have it Jailbreaked.
You can find it in Cydia and its also developed by an Aussie.
Damo
Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 9:22 PMI happily control Vuze remotely from my non-jailbroken iPh 4. Not everything needs to be on the app store! No biggy.