Nokia Play To for Windows Phone 8

Nokia ha released a new Play To app for Windows Phone 8 and is now available in Beta labs. With the new Play To you can share your photos, videos and music from your Nokia Lumia Windows Phones to your DLNA-capable devices over your Wi-Fi network. DLNA-capable devices could be your large TV screen or maybe just your Windows laptop and/or desktop or even XBox.  Play To makes sharing easy from your WP8 devices.

This is the first release for Nokia Lumia WP8 devices. In terms of functionality, it has the same functionality as the Play To application for WP7 based Lumia devices.

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Requirements for Play To App:

Play To application will require following firmware or greater in order to work:

  • Nokia Lumia 920 – PR1.1 (1232.5951.1249.0001)
  • Nokia Lumia 820 – PR1.1 (1232.5951.1249.0001)
  • Nokia Lumia 822 – PR1.1
  • Nokia Lumia 810 – PR1.1
  • Nokia Lumia 620 – Any firmware

Limitations

Play To doesn’t yet work as a digital media server, so unfortunately it won’t work with PS3. This is a feature is being planned to introduce in some future release. Streaming of music is also limited to local content which is stored on the device.

You can download the app from here. You will need a Nokia account to install the app.

Nirmal is a big fan of Windows phone ever since it was released. He started off with Nokia Lumia 800 and then got the Lumia 920. Presently he owns the Lumia 730 and Lumia 930.