Control your Samsung Smart TV with Unofficial Samsung Remote for Windows Phone

Unofficial Samsung Remote is an app that does exactly what the title suggests. The Windows Phone app enables users to command their Samsung Smart Television receiver sets to take advantage of the tv's advanced functionality that may not be available with the standard remote.

Equally well every bit changing channels, adjusting volume levels, navigating around the Smart Hub and inputing data into fields using the keyboard, the app boasts a number of features that's going to make any Samsung television owner drool.

It's noted on the app's Store listing that it supports the following Samsung televisions:

LED 6500 series or higher (model code starts with 'U')
LCD 650 series or higher (model code starts with 'L')
PDP 6500 serial or higher (model code starts with 'P')

Unfortunately at that place is a downside to the app (though information technology's reportedly down to the television set itself, and not how the app is coded). The app cannot turn the Tv on as its wireless remote server is only running when it's already powered on. Furthermore, this is not a licensed, endorsed or approved Samsung solution, then be sure to use at 1'southward ain gamble.

The latest version (1.half-dozen) upgrades the app to fully support Windows Telephone 8 hardware, as well equally the implementation to brand holding downwards book upwardly / down keys to register continuous manipulation of the volume.

You lot can download Unofficial Samsung Remote from the Windows Phone Store for $0.99 (£0.79). It's bachelor for both Windows Telephone viii and 7.5.

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