Android, Faster Downloads, Library Love!
More Devices: Android and iPhone 4
Among the tens of millions of worldwide Vuze users, almost 5 million of you are actively dragging and dropping videos from your library to enjoy Device Playback on iPhone, iPod, iPad, Xbox, PS3, PSP, Tivo, and Samsung Connected TVs. What are the rest of you waiting for? More devices, perhaps?
Today we’re launching support for many of the most popular Android phones on the market, including:
- HTC Desire
- HTC Evo
- HTC Hero
- HTC Incredible
- HTC Magic
- HTC Wildfire
- Motorola Cliq
- Motorola Droid
- Motorola Droid X
- Samsung Vibrant (Galaxy S)
- And more coming…
We’re big believers in open platforms, and we’re very happy to see the strong rise of the Android OS. If your Android device didn’t make the list, tell us in the comments and we’ll work to support it in the near future.
In addition to the new burst of Android support, we’re also launching support for the iPhone 4 with 960 x 640 video resolution, so you can take full advantage of your gorgeous new Retina screen. Tired of hearing about the death grip and AntennaGate? Simply drag-and-drop to the iTunes icon in Vuze (bypassing the antenna altogether) and watch HD video on your iPhone 4.
While we’re on the topic of devices, keep in mind that any mobile phone (or tablet) with a web browser can still manage downloads via Vuze Remote.
Feeling a Need for Speed?
We spend a lot of time thinking about how to deliver ever faster download speeds to you. Vuze 4.5 includes a number of behind-the-scene speed improvements. For many of you, the ultimate speed constraint is on your local area network. As part of Vuze 4.5 we’ve integrated a new speed test that will automatically optimize your Vuze settings for your network. The speed test will begin immediately after you launch the latest version of Vuze. We can’t make house calls to install faster broadband pipes for all of you, but we can make sure that Vuze adapts to your network and delivers the fastest download speed possible over your internet connection. Many of you should see significant increases in download speed after the speed test.
Multi-file Torrent Support
Bittorrent is one of the most elegant technologies for efficiently distributing huge files over the web (leading to adoption by organizations including NASA, Facebook, and Twitter). One of the killer apps for bittorrent is allowing you to download multi-file torrents (those huge torrents that contain multiple files, or multiple songs within an album).
Bittorrent clients (including Vuze) have typically supported multi-file torrents with significant clunkiness (with separate library panels or pop-up dialogs). With this release, the Vuze team took some time to support multi-file torrents the right way — as an integrated part of your Library.
As a result, you’ll be able to quickly prioritize the specific files you want to download within a multi-file torrent, or the sequence in which you want to download them.
Download Vuze 4.5, and give it a try!
Gilles
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HTC Desire support please
Spencer: Did you try plugging your Desire in? So far, every HTC Android phone we’ve gotten our hands on Just Works. You should see it show up in the left nav as “HTC Android Phone”. Please let us know if this does or does not work for you, so we can add this to our official list!
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I’m confirming it works GREAT on the Motorola CLIQ (shows up as Motorola MB200 on the pane)! Great work, I was concerned that there may be a problem since the device is still on v1.5 of Android since Motorola has STILL not followed through on the v2.1 update as promised.
GREAT JOB, WONDERFUL QUALITY & SOUND on the Moto CLIQ!
Android phone that I have is the Motorola Cliq
My download speed has just getting slow.How can I increase it?
I’ve plugged in my HTC Desire and it shows up in Devices as HTC Android Phone just fine. I’m just wondering what the screen resolution is set to? It just says Generic Android. Is it actually going to convert to 480×800?
can you please do it for symbian phones as symbian is very populer but not many programs or websites support it
Doesn’t work on HTC Dream, 2.2 Froyo version.
Working on HTC Wildfire (A3333/A3337)
Thanks !
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I have a sonyericsson X10 with Android 1.6 and was wondering on how to get this setup onto vuze
I plugged my Droid1 in, but nothing happened. Rooted with Bugless Beast v.4
Cancel that, looks like it’s working. Though now it says there aren’t any profiles, and won’t let me copy anything.
@EM: Have you clicked the “Turn on” button next to Devices in your sidebar? If you’re getting a message that there are no profiles for your device (despite your device showing up), it’s likely due to the fact that you haven’t turned on Device Playback support. Please try, and comment back with results. Thanks!
Plugged mine in and even preformed search for devices but cant get Android to show up. I have a Moto Droid. Is it a result of having a Mac?
I have a Android Google Nexus One and this has not appeared in the devices list when connected to the computer.
Just thought you’d like to know.
Support for HTC Legend would be awesome
I have none of these, with no intention to get any either. I prefer my real computer! Would it be of any use to me to get Vuze 4.5?
I do’t have any ot these. Would there be any point in my getting Vuze 4.5?
@James: beyond Android support, 4.5 has significant download speed and library improvements. Give it a try and let us know what you think.
I just the best of all
I have a Motorola Cliq and it does show up in the Devices section as “MB200″ but when i go to drag a movie file, a small window pops up and states there is NO Profile. So can you help? and yes I have USB function on set on my phone to transfer or add files to SD Card.
Thanks!
@Karenia: Try quitting and restarting your Vuze client. Please reply back with the results of this test. Thanks!
Samsung Moment does not work