WinMobile Torrent 1.201 Released

[Darius Wey]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.adisasta.com/wmTorrent.html' target='_blank'>http://www.adisasta.com/wmTorrent.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"WinMobile Torrent (wmTorrent) is a sophisticated and easy-to-use BitTorrent client for Windows Mobile Pocket PC that allows you to leech and/or seed multiple torrent files. A very special feature in WinMobile Torrent is the capability to view the progress of an individual file within the torrent and extract it when it is completed without having to wait for the torrent to be fully downloaded. It supports multiple simultaneous downloads with various functions to manage downloads and peers in a user-friendly interface."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20050713-WMTorrent.jpg" /><br /><br />The BitTorrent world can now be accessed from your Pocket PC, thanks to the release of WinMobile Torrent 1.201. The product allows you to monitor everything from traffic, right down to available peers. A trial version is available from <a href="http://www.handango.com/ampp/store/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=311&productId=168690&productType=2">Handango</a>. If you like it, the full version is on sale for $19.99. [Affiliate]

[Cybrid]

And the software pirates rejoice!! :devilboy:
Hmmm. I noticed this app is $19.99 ... wonder how long before it's a torrent file somewhere too?

[dommasters]

Have Handango lost the plot 8O Next thing they'll be selling decompilers LOL.
Dom

[ipaq_wannabe]

huh!?! P2P using mobile devices? how long does one need to keep the device online (consider that battery life during broadband is considerably shortened)?

[anti]

indeed, I see no need for P2P software on a PPC, only data traffic that makes sense for a PPC is in my opinion RSS updates, lite browsing, e-mail and occasional weather forcast updates.

[PR.]

Or for those security cautious law breakers.

A nice difficult to trace iPAQ plugged into the cigarette lighter downloading illegal material over someone else's unsecure wifi connection!

[volwrath]

it sounds like a pretty cool program to me, a novelty really. Too bad they are charging for it.

More and more people are using torrents for legal purposes aka podcasting.

[alabij]

It's sad that people relate P2P to illegal acitivities. There's a lot of legal material out there. from independent music to movies to art to documents. In fact p2p is an effecient way of downloading freeware. Bittorrent is just extremely smart.

[Deus]

There are PLENTy of legal uses. The bad publicity is going to get the lawmakers making decisions on things they no absolutely NOTHING about ......yet again.

[Cybrid]

It's sad that people relate P2P to illegal acitivities. There's a lot of legal material out there. from independent music to movies to art to documents. In fact p2p is an effecient way of downloading freeware. Bittorrent is just extremely smart.
I agree that there are many legitimate uses. It would be an efficient way to share material over the internet. If it was a freeware or some large media file that you didn't forsee charging for, you could easily get around needing additional bandwidth to host an FTP. However! if you were to search an torrent like limewire, you'd be very hard pressed to find a legal downloads.

[x999x]

I was going to make a post on "here comes rampant piracy to the pocketPC," but then I noticed that the torrent client is 20 bucks. That right there should be a nice roadblock for those unscruplous types ;)

[pepegg]

A guy posted a home made video (100 MB) to his blog. Hours after, his server was collapsed. Luckily, he remembered of BitTorrent and shared the video as a Torrent instead.
I had been trying to download the 150 Megabytes video (fyi it was about Implementing in-code DSLs in Lisp, nothing to do with illegal contents) from his server and it was 3 KB / second and constant drops.
After the torrent had been started, I got it at 300 KB/second in minutes, I can't overstate how useful was the torrent.

BitTorrent is a technology with a great potential to share contents. Think twice before generalizing please.

[rjcc]

A guy posted a home made video (100 MB) to his blog. Hours after, his server was collapsed. Luckily, he remembered of BitTorrent and shared the video as a Torrent instead.
I had been trying to download the 150 Megabytes video (fyi it was about Implementing in-code DSLs in Lisp, nothing to do with illegal contents) from his server and it was 3 KB / second and constant drops.
After the torrent had been started, I got it at 300 KB/second in minutes, I can't overstate how useful was the torrent.

BitTorrent is a technology with a great potential to share contents. Think twice before generalizing please.


but who cares? why would you possibly want to do this on your pocket pc? MAYBE if you've got it plugged into a charger and a wifi connect, but otherwise, pretty much any connection is going to be too slow and too battery draining to make sense.