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."

Comments

Pretty Misleading

[eldavojohn]

This technology allows the individual to log into their home machine from a remote location and, among many other things, add torrents, pause a download, or discontinue a download. The title of this article is pretty misleading. It looks like they've basically made a webpage for their BitTorrent and then made a special css for a cell phone viewing it.

Not extremely innovative, I've seen web interfaces for torrent clients.

Neat? Yes. A good project? Maybe. "Huge step forward?" Not really, in my opinion.

I question the motives for bringing torrents to cellphones unless you can use other cell phones as download points (hence the name Peer to Peer). That's where the speedup comes from. I think cell phones are pinched at their access point, P2P apps on the phone aren't going to change that, they will even make it worse if both phones are fighting two separate choke points. Not sure if this is well thought out.