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UPnP explained

May 8th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) has been around a long time, but a couple of posts have sprung up recently that have some hints on how to maximise its use.

Devin Balentina from The Nokia Guide gives us an explanation of UPnP in simple terms. It allows you to ‘copy media files from your PC to your phone or the other way around and display images and video stored on your phone using your PC, all done wirelessly over WiFi’. He references a post by Ewan from All About Symbian who goes into more detail of how to get the most from this feature.

His ‘insanely simple’ step by step guide to setting up UPnP has instructions for transferring music files (but he says the steps are the same for videos and still images). Allowing your device to browse the files on your PC, grabbing your favourite tunes or pics is easy as is getting rid of or replacing them. Ewan concludes by saying that whilst it only shows the first 100 files available, the ‘functionality is there, but it’s lacking a bit of polish’.

So what do you think? How do you use UPnP? Any tips or hints for others? Jump into either of the links above to share them.