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Windows Phone 7 Connector released for Mac

17 Feb 2011

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Microsoft describes Windows Phone 7 Connector as an application designed to sync media files from your Mac, with your Windows Phone 7 (or Zune HD if you have one).

You can also sync photos and videos you captured on your phone with your Mac5 and update your Windows Phone 7 software.

Requirements are that you have a Windows Phone 7 device and Mac OS 10.6.6 or higher.

Here’s what you can do:

Sync music, movies, TV Shows and podcasts, from your existing iTunes library, to your devices
Sync photos and videos, from your existing iPhoto library, to your devices
Retrieve photos and videos, taken on your Windows Phone, and automatically import them into your existing iPhoto library
Browse and preview media items located on your devices
Download and install operating system updates for your Windows Phone
Only unprotected (non DRM) files are supported

You can download the app now from the Mac App store.

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