Ever since Windows Phone 7 launched with Xbox Live integration, our hopes for an official Xbox Live app for iOS died a miserably lonely death. But it was all in vain, because Microsoft this morning snuck out an official iOS app for Xbox Live users.
It’s fairly extensive, offering similar functionality to the WP7 app. You can view the latest videos in the Spotlight section, manage your Avatar in the Social section, including the ability to send messages and add/remove friends, and view your Achievements and Gamerscore in the Games section.
It looks just as slick as the WP7 app, with similar Avatar animations while browsing through the app. It’s a nice effort, and well worth the free download.
Now all we need is an Android version…
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Terry
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 2:14 PMOn Android, there is the Bungie app, which although is no Xbox Live app, does let you see which of your friends are online on Xbox Live. Better than nothing I guess.
TSH
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 2:16 PMhaha, nice one MS!
Roland
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 2:24 PMGood work Microsoft… since I’ve only just gotten an Xbox360 and a Live account this is definitely pretty cool… :)
MDolley
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 2:49 PMMicrosoft keep making it easier to switch away from Windows Phone 7
Richard
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 2:53 PMBeing able to check your achievements on XBox live is hardly going to sway too many people to pick one OS over the other.
MDolley
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 2:58 PMI should have said for me to switch away.
I don’t really care about getting achievements for playing games on my phone but the ability to send Xbox Live messages and see who was online was a feature that I used frequently, and something that I didn’t think I would be able to do with iOS. Now that I can, it is one less reason for me to stick with WP7
Raymond
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 4:27 PMThere have been apps to allow just that on iOS for months… “360 Live” etc.
MDolley
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 4:53 PMThis one looks pretty
red
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 3:11 PMis errors out all the time when trying to sign in
Nick
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 4:23 PMThat happened to me too. Just go xbox.com and accept the new terms and agreements.
JD
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 3:38 PMThat was a surprisingly confusing intro. Dying a lonely death was in vain? Isn’t it normally? What were you trying to achieve with the death of your hopes? And it was in vain because you then got what you hoped for? O_o
Will
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 3:38 PMDonno about you guys, but the app crashes whenever I try to view a games specific achievements. Maybe its just a problem with my account or something and apart from that the app looks great
Dave
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 4:35 PMWhy is the iPad version “landscape mode” only, when the iPhone version can handle “portrait mode”?
Jubbing
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 5:06 PMThe iPad version is ridiculously cool. Too bad I’ll never use it with my wp7 in my pocket.
BenDTU
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 5:39 PMI hope this means that the rumored iPad Office suite will be fully metro.
Sicarius123
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 6:15 PMHas this managed to come out in Aus quicker than the new Xbox live companion app on WP7?
What a joke Microsoft.
Richard
Friday, December 9, 2011 at 2:03 AMThis app runs so smooth. Especially the avatar editor, runs faster than my xbox -_-;