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October 22, 2012

Support Windows 8 RT for Surface Tablet and Windows Phone 8 for Mobile Devices

  • October 22, 2012
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This is not a full windows 8 platform but will work new surface tablet and Samsung and others plan to use this OS which is not fully windows 8 compatible. It would be very helpful if sonos would support this as the tablet looks promising.
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    Lyricist I
    September 23, 2013
    Hello John, another three month and nothing new 2 report? I can’t believe it. Please give us some hints and change the status. How long do you have to think about that? We all deserve to know what’s going on. thx
    Contributor I
    September 23, 2013
    we are still waiting. c'mon let's fix this give us WP8 and RT support!!!!!!
    Lyricist I
    September 24, 2013
    Hello Sonos Absolutely love this idea. Now that surface 2 and Nokia phones are hot items in the win 8 world... I hope the label "under consideration" changes quick to "planned".
    Lyricist I
    September 27, 2013
    Hi Sonos I have been using a touch screen Windows 8 Laptop for a couple of months now and now I have got used to the new interface really appreciating it as a great operating system. I get the feeling that as the word spreads the initial scepticism will fall away as people appreciate quite how productive it is once you personalise it. Now what I really need to complete it is to control my Sonos system from a Metro style app. Properly done I think the touch screen environment in Widows would be a lovely place to be.
    Lyricist I
    September 27, 2013
    Hello, I finally ditched Android for a great WP8 phone (Lumia 1020) and I am very happy I did it. I've got all the apps I need with one exception...Sonos... And now this situation is starting to annoy me more and more. Please Sonos, it is time to fix this.
    Lyricist I
    September 28, 2013
    Have a 3 and a 5 and am considering going all out with the sub and the playbar but won’t until Sonos releases an app for WP8 and Windows RT. Obviously I have both (Nokia and Surface RT) and it is a nuisance, so one of the two eco systems needs to go. Since a controller app is not a huge investment and a decent nr of people outside the US - own a WP8 (not so much RT, fair enough) I blame Sonos for being lazy. Even if economics don’t support the investment in an app – but fer C sake, it is a controller, not Halo 5 - it still means Sonos is making life difficult for some of its customers. Not something I appreciate, more so since ease of use is a key Sonos feature / USP. Or it was. Should be. Whatever. Bit like Apple making an ugly product, or Porsche a car that doesn’t drive well – twice as bad as it would be normally. Typing this I am actually getting more pee -offed by it. Whatever, forget it Sonos I am putting my 3 and 5 on Ebay and will go with something else before I get in even deeper in what turn out to be shallow waters,
    Trending Lyricist I
    September 28, 2013
    I suggest that we tweet @JohnLMacFarlane (one of the heads at Sonos) to let him know what we think of the fact that the most requested feature is taking so long to get sorted. Maybe he is not aware? Remember to be nice. 🙂
    Lyricist I
    September 29, 2013
    I have four Sonos components in my house and still have to use an old iPod touch to control them as both my Lumia 920 and my Surface RT are not getting adequate support. This is really poor and something I did not expect when I decided to go for Sonos as my main entertainment solution. Equally poor is their lack of feedback or update in this discussion. Windows Phone 8 and WinRT are around for quite some time now and I am sure it's not rocket science to create an app for these platforms. Most likely I would have picked another brand/solution if I knew this before and now I am are seriously considering putting my 3 Play5 and my Connect on ebay, too, as I use is less frequently since I have the Lumia.
    jgatie
    September 29, 2013
    I have four Sonos components in my house and still have to use an old iPod touch to control them as both my Lumia 920 and my Surface RT are not getting adequate support. This is really poor and something I did not expect when I decided to go for Sonos as my main entertainment solution. Equally poor is their lack of feedback or update in this discussion. Windows Phone 8 and WinRT are around for quite some time now and I am sure it's not rocket science to create an app for these platforms. Most likely I would have picked another brand/solution if I knew this before and now I am are seriously considering putting my 3 Play5 and my Connect on ebay, too, as I use is less frequently since I have the Lumia.
    "Adequate support?" Sonos never claimed to support a Windows Phone controller. How can you inadequately support something that you never claimed to support in the first place?
    Lyricist I
    September 30, 2013
    I have four Sonos components in my house and still have to use an old iPod touch to control them as both my Lumia 920 and my Surface RT are not getting adequate support. This is really poor and something I did not expect when I decided to go for Sonos as my main entertainment solution. Equally poor is their lack of feedback or update in this discussion. Windows Phone 8 and WinRT are around for quite some time now and I am sure it's not rocket science to create an app for these platforms. Most likely I would have picked another brand/solution if I knew this before and now I am are seriously considering putting my 3 Play5 and my Connect on ebay, too, as I use is less frequently since I have the Lumia.
    signed... although that would be so fukn great! 🙂