CloudFiles : Dropbox client for Windows Phone 7

September 1, 2010 | By Surur

Ruttensoft, the company behind the first Windows Mobile Dropbox client, Cloudfiles, is in the process of porting their software to Windows Phone 7.

They write:

Building on CloudFiles, the very successful Dropbox for Windows Mobile 6.5 Client, we are working hard to port our Windows Mobile 6.5 Dropbox Client to the much-anticipated Windows Phone 7-Platform.

As Windows Phone 7 is a complete new platform which cannot run Windows Mobile 6 Apps, we had to recode a bigger part of the application, especially the GUI. Thanks to Microsoft Blend 4, building GUI’s for Windows Phone 7 apps is really easy, compared to previous GUI-designing. It’s better not think about how much time we would have saved if previous Windows Mobile apps could have been designed using Blend

But Microsoft has done a really good job, although some developers will miss some features which are (not!) yet implemented in Windows Phone 7, building apps for WP7 with impressive GUI’s is easy as never before.

Great news, and with out own l3v5y also working on a dropbox client it seems Windows Phone 7 will not be short of cloud sync and storage any time soon.

Keep an eye on Ruttensoft’s site here for the latest developments.

Thanks Geekword.net for the tip.

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Tagged dropbox, software, windows phone 7

Pedro

Cool. It's a great program. Works fine on WM 6.5.
http://www.avianwaves.com Parrotlover77

I'm trying to figure out the point of this program. Just file management? I mean with isolated storage, it's not like you can actually do anything with the files. It's not like you can download all your dropbox-stored MP3s and play them in Zune.

http://wmpoweruser.com wmpoweruser

You can actually register files from one isolated storage in the pictures and music and video hubs, so at least those 3 file types can be opened.

I do not know, but suspect this will be carried through to documents also. However I am sure not all file types will be accessible.

http://www.techhustler.com Craig S

Thanks homie, but I'm hoping we get an official DropBox app this time. A lot of these apps on WIndows Mobile, like Mysquare (if that's what it's called) and Twikini etc, are only there because the companies involved didn't want to spend time making official apps for that platform. This time we shouldn't need 3rd party Twitter or whatever else.

On a side note, ParrotLover is right… the files are isolated, we can't open them with another program. How is this supposed to work?
djguapo

Microsoft needs to get their act together on Mesh mobile! I'm not a big fan of DropBox, but I almost wish that they became really successful, like Firefox did with the browser, so that Microsoft feels pressure from the competition, and releases Mesh mobile sooner rather than later!

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