14 DAY TRIAL // One new application is available now from mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless for the users of a Motorola DROID or HTC Imagio, namely the FiOS Mobile Remote app. In case there are some of you who tend to forget where the TV remote is, the new application should prove more than useful, as one won't have to search the entire room anymore to find the remote.
“Starting this week, FiOS TV customers who also have a Motorola Droid or HTC Imagio handset can use these devices to control their HD set-top-box. You'll have all the same functions of the standard FiOS remote and then some! You can change channels, manage parental controls, pause, rewind, fast forward or record a TV show - all through the cell phone,” a recent post on Verizon's forums notes.
The new FiOS Mobile Remote app for Motorola DROID and HTC Imagio works only with the FiOS home network, but it is expected to deliver a great deal of features to users. Among them, we can count the possibility to transfer one photo at a time from the handset to the TV, with a simple touch of the screen. Moreover, one will also be able to view an entire slide show of photos from the handset directly on the big screen.
Other functionalities are also present within the application, including the possibility to import favorite lists from the TV to the mobile phone, something that will enable one to use the handset for selecting favorite channels on any FiOS TV. In addition, the app has been designed so as to mute the TV as soon as a phone call is received, and will set it back to the previous level when the call ends.
“Mobile Remote is easy to set up. You simply access the feature through the application store on the mobile handset and then pair the device with the in-home Wi-Fi network by opening up the Mobile Remote Widget on the TV and selecting either the Motorola Droid or HTC Imagio icon. You will then be asked to register your telephone number using the Widget, and you're all set to go,” the forum post also notes, adding that more devices will enjoy the application in the near future.