Windows Phone and Xbox 360 Bridge Coming Soon
Xbox Companion for Windows Phone coming December 6th
Major Nelson (Microsoft's spokeshead, real name Larry Hyrb) has announced the arrival of the "the free Xbox Companion app for Windows Phone" on Tuesday, December 6th.
The app, "will let you find, learn more about and control content from popular entertainment services on Xbox Live".
Mr Larry Hyrb outlines the highlights if that's not mixing a metaphor too much, "Xbox Companion search powered by Bing. Search the unified Xbox catalog for movies, TV shows, music, games and apps using the Windows phone. View a detailed unified results page across all content providers. You can see recently played games and apps and browse the Zune video catalog
"Using the Xbox Companion app you can learn more details about the movie, TV show, music or game that is playing on your console. You can also get friend activity (friends online, friends with beacons, friends who have recently played), achievements and related items. You’ll also be able to select a search result, and launch a movie, TV show, game or app on the connected console as well as play, pause, fw, rw the playing video or music on the connected Xbox,initiate media purchase and navigate your Xbox console with Windows Phone using the Xbox Companion."
Source: Major Nelson
The app, "will let you find, learn more about and control content from popular entertainment services on Xbox Live".
Mr Larry Hyrb outlines the highlights if that's not mixing a metaphor too much, "Xbox Companion search powered by Bing. Search the unified Xbox catalog for movies, TV shows, music, games and apps using the Windows phone. View a detailed unified results page across all content providers. You can see recently played games and apps and browse the Zune video catalog
"Using the Xbox Companion app you can learn more details about the movie, TV show, music or game that is playing on your console. You can also get friend activity (friends online, friends with beacons, friends who have recently played), achievements and related items. You’ll also be able to select a search result, and launch a movie, TV show, game or app on the connected console as well as play, pause, fw, rw the playing video or music on the connected Xbox,initiate media purchase and navigate your Xbox console with Windows Phone using the Xbox Companion."
Source: Major Nelson
Companies:
Microsoft
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