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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 II
    November 17, 2013
    I have 2 Play 3s and one Sonos amp.  I'm ready to buy two Sonos Connects once there are WP8 and Win8 apps, but I'm waiting to extend my system until I see Windows support.  I was hoping to do this before Christmas 2013, but that appears unlikely.
    Lyricist II
    November 17, 2013
    For me it is clear: if Sonos is not getting serious about supporting Windows 8 (RT) and Windows Phone, I will be leaving Sonos behind and spend my money with a manufacturer that does. I was in a trade show in Belgium the beginning of November. The Sonos rep at the show told me a Windows Phone app was coming within 2 months ... let's see how much he was lying to me in order to avoid a discussion.

    Apparently he was lying or someone was lying to him 😞
    Lyricist I
    November 17, 2013
    Love Sonos, but as soon as I find a good alternative I guess Sonos will leave my room:( And that´s too bad, only because I can´t have a system that doesn´t have support for my Windows Phones, makes the simple system not so simple after all...
    Phonos is not efficient either.
    Lyricist II
    November 18, 2013
    For those of you with the Surface RT, I have 3 words for you. Remote Desktop Connection... Turn that on, and you can control your Sonos from your Surface RT exactly the same way you would do it from your desktop or laptop Windows app. On top of that, you can run ANY app that you have on your PC from your surface. Not a native app, but should tide you over till Sonos decides to announce something.
    RDP only works if you have a computer that will accept a remote desktop connection.  Mine do, but I believe that Windows "Home" licenses don't allow for that.  In addition, using RDP is another step that we would also like to avoid and I certainly won't let my kids RDP into my server just to change the music.
    Lyricist I
    November 19, 2013
    I have a Play:1, a Play:3 and a Connect and I live this System, but I Hate this bad Support for Windows Phone 8, Phonos is the only app which I have under consideration... I have a complete Microsoft Environment and only because I bought a Surface Pro I am able to control my System, THIS IS BAD!

    So stop your answers with under consideration and SUPPORT other OSes, like you can see, Windows Phone is not dead, it is growing!
    Lyricist II
    November 19, 2013
    I'm still confused why this is taking so long? Your Desktop Client is running on a .NET base probably written in C#. So you should have the knowledge of Platform and Programming Language to easily create a Windows Phone / WinRT App. And there are some apps that show that controlling Sonos from the Windows (Phone) Platform is possible, so whats the point of not doing it? At least Windows 8 (8.1) should have enough market share to take this quickly in consideration, as your Desktop Client is not what i would call Touch Optimized.
    Lyricist I
    November 19, 2013
    Anyone got Alternative Players to bridge that will have a windows APP?
    Trending Lyricist I
    November 20, 2013
    Need this for win 8 metro.
    Lyricist I
    November 21, 2013
    There has again been a "little" while since the last update, when can we expect more information on possible decision and progress of a Sonos control that supports the Metro UI? 
    Lyricist I
    November 21, 2013
    I am in the mood to buy a sonos system but I need to know that it will work with my Nokia 920 witch has WP8. Is there going to be a app for this or am I going to haft to choose another comp. system?