This is an essential installation or any Windows Phone owners although some users are likely to find that the option to synchronise with iCal and Address Book is a frustrating oversight. Windows Phone Connector for Mac 3.0 brings these changes:. Support for Windows Phone 8 devices. Drag and drop files between Windows Phone and your Mac. Phone 7 connector free download - App Bar Icons for Windows Phone 7, iCal Connector for Lotus Notes, Metro Icons for Windows Phone 7, and many more programs.
Microsoft prompted a few sighs of relief from would-be Windows Phone 7 owners using Macs rather than PCs, when the company confirmed earlier this month that it would be releasing a sync tool to easily transfer content between the two platforms. We’ve been using the Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac for the past week; read on for all the details.
Unlike the full Zune suite for PC, the Mac equivalent – currently in beta – is a far more low-key affair. In fact, it’s more like ActiveSync from the Windows Mobile days, a simple bridge between local content and what’s on your smartphone. Rather than taking responsibility for all your music, photos and video, it relies on iTunes and iPhoto.
Plug in a Windows Phone 7 device, and it automatically begins synchronising: photos and video taken with the smartphone’s camera are imported into iPhoto. Meanwhile the Connector app ties into iTunes for music, photos, video, movies & TV shows, and podcasts. There’s a fair degree of granularity in what you can select to sync, too; music, for instance, can be selected by playlist, genre or artist (or indeed all of your content, minus anything iTunes protected that Windows Phone 7 can’t play, and which won’t be listed). For photos & video, you can choose whether or not to pull video content down to the phone, and then select photos by event, album or iPhoto-recognized faces.
Movies & TV shows – again, as long as they’re not DRM protected – can be individually selected, as can podcasts. Alternatively syncing for each category can be turned off altogether. Finally there’s the option to browse the Windows Phone 7 itself, though beyond deleting items from the list of photos and video, there’s nothing you can actually do from here. There isn’t even a way to preview content stored on the phone.
The UI of the Connector is very “Apple”, with an iTunes-like capacity bar running along the bottom of the display showing you how much space is left on your smartphone and how much is taken up by each category of content. Settings are minimal: you can rename the phone, choose whether to auto-sync on connection (a Connector icon is added to the menu bar at the top of the screen), whether to pull in content from the phone to the Mac, whether photos in iPhoto should be resized before they’re transferred to the handset, and whether music information from the Zune service should be synced. There are also global content-delete and ignore-device options.
It all works, and we’re glad Microsoft resisted the urge to recreate the wheel and try to get Windows Phone 7 users to migrate from iTunes to an app of their own development, or indeed balance two media collections simultaneously. We’d like to see more content management control from within the phone browsing pane – it doesn’t seem like too much to ask to be able to drag photos directly out and into a Finder window or an email – but otherwise there are reasonable options to choose how the non-expandable storage of your Windows Phone 7 device is used up. Mac users will be able to download Connector from October 24 2010.
Considering a Windows Phone 7 device? Check out our reviews of the HTC 7 Mozart, HTC Surround and Samsung Focus
Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac, available in the Mac App Store, is the tool you need to sync your favorite music, photos and videos, movies and TV shows, and podcasts with your Mac and your Windows Phone. You can also copy files from your phone to your Mac, and update your Windows Phone software and restore your phone to a backup.
Keep in mind:
- Windows Phone can't play Apple lossless encoded (AAC) music files.
- Protected media files, such as protected MPEG-4 files, in your iTunes or iPhoto libraries won't sync.
Go to:
Sync music, pictures, videos, and podcasts
- Connect your Windows Phone to your Mac using the USB cable that came with your phone. Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac should open automatically. If it does not, click Windows Phone 7 Connect in the Applications folder.
- In the left pane, click the type of media that you want to sync: Music, Photos & Videos, Movies & TV Shows, or Podcasts.
- Select what you want to sync:
- Music: Check Sync music.
- Photos and videos: Check Sync photos and videos.
- Movies and TV shows: Check Sync movies and TV shows.
- Podcasts: Check Sync podcasts.
- Click Sync.
Restore data
- Connect your Windows Phone to your Mac using the USB cable that came with your phone. Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac should open automatically. If it does not, click Windows Phone 7 Connect in the Applications folder.
- In the left pane, click the Device Name.
- Click Device Options.
- Click Restore.
- Follow the instructions to restore your phone to the most recent backup. If the Restore button is unavailable, it means that there is no backup available for this phone.
Windows 10 Server Connector Download
Update the Windows Phone software
- Connect your Windows Phone to your Mac using the USB cable that came with your phone. Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac should open automatically. If it does not, click Windows Phone 7 Connect in the Applications folder.
- In the left pane, click the Device Name.
- Click Install Updates.
Windows Phone 7 Download
Copy files from your phone to your Mac
Windows 7 For Mac
- Connect your Windows Phone to your Mac using the USB cable that came with your phone. Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac should open automatically. If it does not, in the Applications folder, click Windows Phone 7 Connector.
- In the left pane, click Browse Device, then select the files you want to copy.
- Click Import Selected Items to copy the files to the corresponding library on your Mac.
- Drag and drop the files to your Desktop or to a specific folder.