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uTorrent Launches Remote Control for iPhone

BitTorrent Inc. has made the remote access ‘web’ feature of its Falcon client iPhone compatible. uTorrent users can now remotely control their downloads from wherever they are with their iPhone. Torrents can be added, paused and removed using an interface with a look and feel identical to that of the uTorrent application.

utorrentThe Falcon release is one of the main pillars for uTorrent’s future. Among other things, it allows users to access their downloads from anywhere through a secure web interface. A few weeks ago the uTorrent ‘web’ feature opened up to the public and today the team announced that support for the iPhone has been added.

“In our ever-connected world, users want the ability to control their torrents on the go anytime, anywhere. So, in a continued effort to make our products more accessible we are introducing µTorrent Web for iPhone,” says Simon Morris, BitTorrent’s VP of Product Management.

“While µTorrent Web is currently only available as part of our experimental Project Falcon software, we continue to fill out the feature set prior to a large-scale rollout,”
Morris added in a recent blog post. Although we haven’t been able to confirm it, we assume that uTorrent web is supported on the iPad as well.

The Falcon release of uTorrent is key component of the client’s future. It is very similar to the standard uTorrent application but has several added features including support for the web interface and video streaming. Together with Griffin and Pheon, the Falcon project is part of the recently announced uTorrent Labs which give users early access to beta projects.

In order to use the web interface at web.utorrent.com users will have to download and install the latest Falcon release. After an encryption swipe and logging in, users will see the iPhone compatible interface that gives them all the controls they are familiar with in their regular PC client.

uTorrent Web for iPhone

utorrent web

For those wondering why there are no BitTorrent-related apps in the App Store, it is because Apple notoriously bans all applications that have anything to do with BitTorrent. “Because this category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third party rights. We have chosen to not publish this type of application to the App Store,” is Apple’s official explanation.

Despite its desire to control every aspect of its business, Apple is not censoring the websites that people access on their phones just yet, so the uTorrent web-interface can be reached through the Safari browser. Fingers crossed.

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  • http://www.eZee.se www.eZee.se

    “Fingers crossed. ”

    Or do the sensible thing and… jailbreak.

  • maselko

    In other news, this has existed for years in Transmission.

  • omfg

    transmission-cli .. bloody noobs ;ß

  • Herp a Derp

    Awesome!!!

  • Gasp

    You expect apple to distribute bt apps? Are you crazy? They are not going to shot their own foot are they?

  • Anonymous

    @1

    It would be more sensible to grab an Android device in the first place.

  • duane

    Transmission is actually a very good bare-bones client. Just raw torrenting power without the bloat, perfect for the average Linux user ;)

    You want the latest versions, though, which support DHT etc.

  • Anonymous

    i use transmission and the webui supports iphone os

  • http://www.eZee.se www.eZee.se

    @6, true, but you just cant reason with some people – so its better to just try to help them now that they have made the mistake of jumping into @pples walled garden with lord Jobs overseeing everything.

    I wonder how long its going to take Apple before they start censoring sites in the name of “protecting the children”, “child porn”, “violence” etc… all good reasons by themselves mind you but that soon gets “extended” to include other stuff (and its not just Apple thats guilt of this, even entire governments, eg: Australia)

  • J

    Android has plenty of good apps for utorrent and other clients already :P

  • BLACKBERRY :)

    Hi just wondered if there was any plans for a blackberry version !!

  • Aredt

    Fingers crossed for your freedom??? FUCK APPLE!

  • SMASH-TV

    Saaaweeeeeeet! Thank you torrentfreal for informing me!

  • swemadz

    Go for the Android and be free

  • metoo

    torrent – new leading force , not as other stupid filehosts like rapidshare shit , hotfile,etc

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  • moloko

    LOL Iphones

  • Artem
  • R

    Talk about misleading – Falcon isn’t designed to make uTorrent accessible from the iPhone, it’s designed to make it available from *any* web browser.

  • eere

    uPhone

  • Me

    I had uTorrent control on my phone the day I got my Android phone.

    Apple is a terrible company when it comes to any issue related to copyright and should not be supported in any way.

  • Poopie

    cydia… uMonitor… Been around for a while

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  • Anonymous

    Count on Apple finding some way to crush this.

  • Anonymous

    /me wants for android

  • Jay

    iPhone Web UI from the fijian Warrior is still the best for me :)

  • Anonymous

    I will start caring when there is one for android.

  • lol

    but.. but.. but.. no love for android :(

  • Whatever

    I still wouldn’t want to access it through a 3rd party website.

    @1 Thats indeed the sensible thing to do, Apple already does not allow some applications.

    One may understand manufacturers for trying to prevent users ruining the device (less support needed). However why don’t they put in an advanced mode option where the full potential of a device is accessible after 5 times “are you sure ?” or a password in a obscure section in the manual for example.

    For Apple its all about Apple store money. But with a NSLU2 (too slow nowadays) it could have been good for sales. If it didn’t need to be hacked first, a community would have existed sooner.

    (Wonder if the term “jailbreak” was taken from chroot for FTP.)

  • lol

    im retarded, this entire time i have had a droid i never bothered to get an app for remote controlling.

    few of them in the market, I got TRANSDROID. Works great. If your a moron with computers dont bother, all of them require some type of port forwarding and setup. Not complicated but not for total noobs.

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  • Anonymous

    I wish they’d spend the time they spend on developing this on uT for Linux.

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  • blabbities

    Stupid. Waste of resources and ideas. Fix the damn WebUi for normal mobile phone browsers instead. Not everyone is dumb enough to pay for an Iphone.

    I myself have had quite a bit of phones.

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  • Joe Bob

    Why is this news? Transmission has been doing this forever.

  • Phantom

    blabbities, the problem with the WebUI is that it has to run on whatever port utorrent runs on. Some mobile ISP’s (read: AT&T) block http over non-standard ports… so accessing WebUI from your phone is impossible without a Wifi connection.

  • WOWSIMPLYWOW

    Go for the Android and be free

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  • Bodge

    I’ve had a torrent remote app for WebOS for months now. It’s in the catalog and everything. I wonder what the issue is?

    TorrentRemote is the name, imagine that.

  • 1000blabbities

    @ Phantom

    I dont know where you live and what you do.

    I had 2 Androids one on Sprint, one on T-mobile, (used) a ATT Iphone, and generic China copy phone on Tmobile.

    Every one of them could access HTTP based Webui’s (Transmission, Utorrent, Rtorrrent), using wifi, 3g, or WAP.

    The WebUI is just html send RPCs, generally. I cant even see how ATT can even block HTTP traffic for webUI’s since the webUIs arent standardardized to use specific ports.

  • Benjamin

    @32 / Phantom:

    Actually, the whole point of this is that you access it from a regular SSL port.

    Your uTorrent client forwards a small amount of data to the uTorrent Web website and your phone when accessing that will create a connection between the two using JavaScript – as far as I know communication between Web and the phone is on standard ports, thus bypassing that issue.

  • Le Fake

    Back in 2006 I often used my Nokia N93 to reach my eMule client running home. I could do pretty much everything there, even shut down or restart my computer, which was a nice feature, too.

  • AnarchyNow

    mutorrent sucks, apple is the nazi pary of the 21st century and the iphone/ipad the shittiest worse than nazi brainwashing device ever

  • dehness

    um… what about umonitor? I’ve been using it for ages on my iphone.

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  • SuperToxic

    I have been using uRemote on my iPod for a while. It uses uTorrent’s WebUI feature, and has done so for ages.

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  • Something

    Been using utorrent Mini UI, works great

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  • AC

    @2: And in other news, WebUI has existed in µTorrent since before it made its way into Transmission. Even the iPhone UI.

    http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=33186

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