BitTorrent Comes to Cell Phones

An anonymous reader writes "Finally, a BitTorrent interface for the mobile phone. Dubbed uTorrent mUI, the web user interface allows the end user to control torrent downloads remotely. The interface still lacks the ability to add torrents, however bringing BitTorrent capabilities to the cell phone is a giant step forward."

Re:Wow...

[dextromulous]

This is a "remote control" for bittorrent related things running on other computers, not a bittorrent client.

Re:Pretty Misleading

[Poromenos1]

What a misleading article... I have a BitTorrent client for my mobile phone called SymTorrent (there's also a Gnutella one, Symella). I think it's open source, too, but it only runs on symbian. Still, pretty handy (I don't know for what, but I'm sure it'll prove to be some day!)

Re:Pretty Misleading

[nonsequitor]

As the parent poster pointed out, Azureus has had a remote web interface plugin for a long time. Making it able to be controlled remotely from anything with a browser and net access. How is this news? Wake me when the hacked iPhone has P2P song sharing via WiFi with autodiscovery of peers via ad hoc network magic.

This is lame

[diablobsb]

good cellphones (pda-like) could always do that....

there are even bittorrent CLIENTS for cellphones....

check out...
http://www.adisasta.com/wmTorrent.html [adisasta.com]

Re:This is lame

[freedumb2000]

There is also Python for Symbian so could imagine BitTornado working there as well.

Re:This is lame

[yohanes]

A client for Symbian platform also exist. SymTorrent is a full-featured and complete BitTorrent client for Symbian OS 3rd edition http://www.aut.bme.hu/portal/SymTorrent.aspx?lang= en [aut.bme.hu]. s This is a free/open source (GPL) program. As a person who blogs about S60 3rd edition freewares, I have tested it, and it works very well.

Re:This is lame

[qyiet]

Torrent clients arn't restricted to WinCE. I already have a SymTorrent [wikipedia.org] installed on my Nokia N91 [wikipedia.org].

I must admit I have yet to use it for anything beyond testing, but it's nice to know I could get a "linux distribution" straight to my phone

Re:Awesome!

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, to be a _real_ spelling nazi, the word you are think of is spelled c-o-m-e. Look it up some time...

Re:Pretty Misleading

[Jackmn]

Is there an OSX client with similar functionality?

There is an OSX package [sourceforge.net] available for Azureus.