BlackBerry Wireless Media Server coming soon to a BlackBerry near you

By Adam Zeis on 26 Jan 2012 10:56 am

Something we haven't heard about before that you may be seeing on a BlackBerry in the near future? Wireless Media Server. While details are still pretty minimal, BGR has posted up some leaked slides, one of which shows off BlackBerry Wireless Media Sync. The feature looks to allow you to share your media (music, photos, videos, podcasts and voice notes) with computers, game systems and more. The process will work over Wifi and you'll have a few options to set on your device, but this is something that looks to be very cool. Just think about having all your videos and photos on your device and being able to play them on other devices whenever, wherever.

Source: BGR

Topics: Wireless Media Server News & Rumors

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27 comments

Superfly_FR Jan 26, 2012 at 11:03 am

Hummmm ... smells like DLNA !
... and I like it !

sk8er_tor Jan 26, 2012 at 11:13 am

Great! Looking forward to it!

The BGR slides also show the new PlayBook as being a 7" device with 1.5 GHz dual core processor, NFC, HSPA+.

southlander Jan 26, 2012 at 11:06 am

Nice feature.

Detective M Downs Jan 26, 2012 at 11:07 am

Dedicated BBM convenience key... interesting!

sk8er_tor Jan 26, 2012 at 11:13 am

WillieLee Jan 26, 2012 at 11:13 am

Why hasn't RIM stopped these leaks? It's damaging to the company.

Searzy Jan 26, 2012 at 4:39 pm

Completely agree.

Apple is like'lockedown'.

I find RIM has too many "conferences". The fewer offered, the greater the importance will be.

Like "field of dreams" ;P

hispanola Jan 26, 2012 at 6:35 pm

Agreed. Kills a lot of potential buzz as people already know what to look forward to being released.

cbcastle Jan 26, 2012 at 11:15 am

Can't wait for this... It's something I've always thought a smartphone needed, especially when stats show that most pics / movies taken on a smartphone never make it to a pc for viewing. This would've been huge in my house this christmas with allthe family visiting from out of town...

FrankDLR1972 Jan 26, 2012 at 11:26 am

You would think BGR should be citing news from Crackberry. Instead, they're the ones breaking most of the news.

auditman Jan 26, 2012 at 11:31 am

pretty cool.

StormMan1988 Jan 26, 2012 at 11:34 am

Do you think that this will allow playbook users to access a network drive on the same wifi network and stream compatible videos to the playbook over wifi? If so this would be awesome

MikeFromCanada Jan 26, 2012 at 11:41 am

To be honest, that sounds exactly like what this will allow us to do! Looking forward to it. Will certainly help those who bought the 16GB Playbook and have access to their media files. I have a 32GB and I use Orb currently, but that interface can be very slow and laggy.

fanatical Jan 26, 2012 at 11:56 am

I certainly hope so. Using my phone/playbook as a media server would be handy, but having my playbook seamlessly connect to the GB’s of music, pics and video already shared on my Windows Media Center would be amazing. If it’s a full DLNA implementation it should be possible, hopefully we see it in 2.0 *crosses fingers*

Barefoot_Kevin Jan 26, 2012 at 4:56 pm

This is cool. It is like what I am able to do with 500GB Seagate wireless HD.

2high4u Jan 26, 2012 at 11:47 am

Pretty interesting. This is pretty much like cloud from Apple. This feature might be awesome to sync all my songs to my blackberry and playbook !!!

Angelo_Campher Jan 26, 2012 at 12:16 pm

This is nothing like iCloud but more like AirPlay. Although AirPlay is much more comprehensive.

I'm assuming the handset becomes the server/content provider here and it is unable of playing a video from let's say your PlayBook or PC.

A little disappointed that the PlayBook 3G and all the OS 7 devices still haven't adopted Bluetooth 3 + HS. It would have done wonders for the Bridge connection.

gramz007 Jan 26, 2012 at 12:09 pm

What a Nice surprise :) Something I would use all the time. This makes me happy

andrewmcwhirter Jan 26, 2012 at 12:13 pm

GREAT feature. I want this now!

ny3t Jan 26, 2012 at 12:42 pm

Can they make it DLNA and somemore (since DLNA alone suck!)

mpatchez Jan 26, 2012 at 12:59 pm

hmmm, this sounds pretty great, but, I think there is a reason we have not heard about this before. I dont think BGR can even be taken seriously theses days and is NOT a reliable source of BlackBerry news. With that being said I'd like to take another look at that 4th slide in their series. Hmmm, why would anyone, including someone trying to spread rumors, use a leaked device picture from like a year ago? There are actual published photos now and real devices. That slide makes this seem a bit odd to me. I'm not even gonna take this as a grain of salt, because its rumors that set us up for disappointment. Personally, I'm happy with my 64GB PlayBook. I look forward to all the greatness that is BlackBerry, and wouldnt mind a little surprise

BBPandy Jan 26, 2012 at 1:03 pm

yea & if you go to slide 18, you see them talking about the yet to be launched Bold 9790 & Curve 9380 (both of which have already been released)

IF this is real, it's a really old internal slide. BGR's "exclusive" inside contacts at RIM seem to be lower level non-loyal RIM employees.

whenever Jan 26, 2012 at 1:49 pm

Hahaha - thats what I found - I Posted this on Nov 21, 2011 you can see the link to the forum item below my quote. The media server is there and you can enable it with shortcut me and you can turn it off be simply toggling your wifi network off and on

You can see the forum post if you search crackberr with the title in qotes below

"ShortCutMe surprise bonus app on Bold 9900 with OS 7.0.0.540".

When browsing the shortcutme list of apps I found one I did not recognize "MediaServer". Being a curious fellow, I choose it and lauched it using the SCM shortcut. Nothing opened but an little icon that looks like a monitor symbol appeared up by the Battery meter on the home screen.

Could not find anythin about by searching the web, but my running apps program showed me it was a rim app.

On a hunch, I went to my media program on my computer (Logitech media server(Squeezebox) with UPnP turned on) that would find available music servers and there it was my little BB had become a music server that I could stream from. Works perfectly

Must a be a "to be released" app, when I connected to it from my computer my blackberry asked if i wanted to allow the connection and that I could change my settings from the media options. The options are not there and the only way I can turn off the media server is by rebooting, but it may still be handy

lifeinbmajor Jan 26, 2012 at 1:54 pm

For a company that is supposedly 'dead in the water' by many analysts, they seem to be further developing their ecosystem as they move to a more mobile software oriented company.
Anyhow, Go RIM - lets just hope this implementation is sooner rather than later