Chrome to WP7 - Review - Sansom Combehe

Dave Amenta has brought the popular Google Chrome to Phone Android application to Windows Phone 7.

Chrome to WP7 (at present called Send to WP7) allows y'all to push a web address to your Windows Telephone from your desktop browser. The URL will appear in the Chrome to WP7 app where you tin can either email the link or launch the URL via your mobile browser. To come across how well the Chrome app transitioned to Windows Phone vii, hit the suspension.

Update: As of Dec tenth, the app is at present called Send to WP7

Chrome to WP7 Screenshot

The first production run of Chrome to WP7 worked exclusively with Google'south Chrome browser. However, it is now uniform with Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari browsers. The Windows Phone 7 app hasn't changed just rather ways to get the other browsers uniform were discovered.

Setup is simple. Download the Chrome to WP7 app to your Windows Phone. Once installed, launch the app and swipe over to settings. Yous'll see a pairing lawmaking and the selection to allow push notifications. Once you accept the pairing code, go to DaveAmenta.com and enter the pairing code. Once y'all do that, desktop installation instructions volition appear for the individual browsers.

Chrome to WP7 installation

For Google Chrome you take a little Windows icon/push that appears in the upper correct corner of the screen. When you need to send the URL to your Windows Telephone, click on the Windows Logo (yous may have to re-enter your pairing code one more time) and you'll see a status message appear.

Chrome to WP7 on Google Chrome

Chrome to WP7 on Firefox

For Firefox, Safari and Opera a bookmark is created to send links with. For Cyberspace Explorer (v8 or ix) a button is added to your accelerator to send the links with.

Chrome to WP7 on Internet Explorer

To electronic mail a link from your Windows Phone, just press/concur on the link and a drop down menu will appear. "Show All" will send you lot to some other screen that details the link and a "email" button at the lesser. Tap the button and the link is transposed to an email bulletin. The merely feature I could find missing was a ways to purge the list of URL's on your Windows Phone.

The awarding itself ran smoothly on my Samsung Focus and notifications arrived with no delay. Chrome to WP7 is a groovy mode to send links to your phone in a quick, efficient manner. Yous don't have to cut/paste the URL to an email message to ship yourself or scribble it downwards on a chip piece of paper that often gets lost.

Chrome to WP7 is a gratis application and can exist institute hither (launches your Zune Desktop) or with Microsoft's Tag Reader from your Windows Phone.

Chrome to WP7 Tag

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