Currently users have to plug their iPhone to a computer via USB to sync it, which is quite frustrating for a mobile phone.
An iPhone app to make this process simpler could be coming soon. Wi-Fi Sync is an iPhone app that that will enable iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users to wirelessly sync their iDevice with iTunes.
The application is developed by Greg Hughes, a 2nd-year Computer Science student at the University of Birmingham. After launching the iPhone app, you need to pair the iPhone and the computer. Once this is done, the wireless syncing process will commence. It must be noted that in conventional tethered syncing, data transfers happen at speeds close to 500 Mbps. However, in case of wireless syncing, this may be a lot slower. Nevertheless, wireless syncing can be a great utility to a lot of users who may not want their iPhone to be tied to one place during the syncing process.
Check out a demo of Wi-Fi Sync in the video embedded below:
Though the demo shows the iPhone app working with a Mac, Hughes has clarified that it will also work with Windows.
Hughes plans to submit the iPhone app to the App Store for approval very shortly. While the iPhone app will be pretty useful and would be a killer iPhone app when iPhone OS 4 allows multitasking, it is quite likely to get rejected. As TechCrunch notes, a primary reason for this could be that Wi-Fi Sync's wireless communication with iTunes could be viewed as "unauthorized interaction" by Apple.
It is also speculated that Apple is working on a cloud-based version of iTunes, which could be launched sometime this year that could be another reason for the iPhone app to get rejected.
Update:
Hughes has tweeted that he hopes that Apple will approve it as it doesn't break any rules. Good luck Hughes, we love the idea.
As you might have guessed, you need to install a syncing application on your computer.
Do you think Apple will approve Wi-Fi Sync? Would you be interested in such an iPhone app? Let us know in the comments below.
[via TechCrunch, Getwifisync]
love this idea
awesome idea but not likely to be approved..but anything's possible..good luck to you Hughes!
If apple is planing on doing this with cloud. I don't see them approving this. Unless apple won't see it as a threat because it would be much slower and Not as smooth as apple cloud. So maybe! But this should have been a while ago. Let's go apple.
if apple dont accept this then they really are gay they decline all the good apps i made a flash app in which you could input flash webpages and the iphone would display it perfectly but no
Yet another misfit App to be welcomed with open arms by Cydia
Nice, can't wait.
Nice. Submit it to a dev team of put if on cydia. I'll pay to have flash on my iPhone so will many more will.
Doesn't apple remote for the iTunes do the same thing? So apple can break the rules but developers can't? Doesn't sound right to me
Hughes has tweeted that he hopes the iPhone app to get approved as it doesn't break the rules.
I would use this over the cloud. Frankly, I do not want Apple controlling my files in the cloud. They will be able to take away things I store such as blackra1n or themes I love.
i wanna see this approved, cos wireless is the future, we should be able to wirelessly send s#it to our iphones is it over wifi on a network or over bluetooth im confuzled?
How could apple take away your blackra1n? it's not stored anywhere in itunes…same with themes…
"Sync Your iPhone Wirelessly With iTunes Using Wi-Fi Sync App".
I'm gunna take a stab at it being Wi-Fi based. . . .
Now all we need is someone who can develop an app for wireless charging.
WHO would guess the Opera to be approved?
Fuck off jobs that's what they have to say and don't. Waiste their time trying to put it on the app store go with cydia
Rejected … reason: duplicating the functionality of Apple's USB cable … LOOOL
i can think of one big rule he's breaking….
you're not allowed to access anything outside of your app's sandbox unless you're using a direct SDK call to import data into your app… There is no SDK call to access the raw audio data, notes, etc….
if it does get approved, i'd like to see how he's getting the files.
don't think that'd work at all. apple needs to do it themselves, and add the ability to go through your itunes library and copy individual things like music/videos/apps back and forth wirelessly.
It begs the question why can't Apple techies think up these apps and put them in their iPhone OS 4.0??? If a second year university student can do this… Apple techies must be numb-in-the-brains…
Apples Techs can think of things like this but then if they added everything they would not be able to sell you new features in the future! Its all a game.
Very great app. It would be another great app to the collection to flaunt around — convincing others that other phones ain't got nothing on the iPhone.
Ya but Hughes might add Bluetooth in the future
Should publish this to cydia [=