DLNA - coming to a phone near you

21/07/2008 by nicola.

Saw yesterday that Sony Ericsson C905 due out this year will support DLNA. I think Nokia N95 8GB which came out earlier this year also supports it.

Digital Living Network Alliance began in 2003 and now has over 250 companies involved so that technology products can talk to each other. The implications for phones are that they can connect and discover other technological devices using wifi and because of the alliance, more devices will be more interoperable with other devices. You can already do some of this with bluetooth, infrared - I don’t know if anyone else has ever tried printing from a phone using bluetooth, I found the printer in an office, but getting the document sent to it was another matter.

It is aimed at streamlining a home entertainment network but I don’t see why it can’t go further than that - I wonder if you can set up small DLNA networks in education or institutions?

Mobile connectivity to other devices and the increase in gigabytes of memory cards means that you could take larger amounts of rich media content around with you and present or watch them as you need by connecting through wifi.

Why bother when you can put everything on a memory stick?

Suppose you arrive for a session you are presenting but as a result of a conversation with someone on the way or at the event, you suddenly have an idea about changing some of the media in your presentation, if you had a DLNA enabled network, you could quickly connect to the web and download whatever it was you wanted. Or you were having a conversation with somebody and wanted to show them something - you could connect to whatever device and/or the web and quickly demo it.

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