GLOBAL – For users of the Nokia Lumia 710, Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 900, there’s an app accessible which enables we to carry out your Xbox right from the joy of your smartphone’s touchscreen.

66+ million Xbox 360 consoles sold, and scarcely 40 million Xbox LIVE members globally.

18+ million Kinect sensors sole around the world.

Kinect for Windows becomes accessible February 1st, 2012.

Xbox Companion will see we browsing for films, song and games right from your phone, personification them on your console. The multiple of your Xbox 360, Xbox Live account, Xbox Companion app and your Nokia Lumia pierce your gaming knowledge over just gaming and in to home entertainment.

There’s no difficult installations involved, all that’s indispensable to get proposed is a download of the Xbox Companion app from the Windows Phone Marketplace – which is free. Once installed, you’ll need to energy on your Xbox 360 and press the app idol on your Nokia Lumia smartphone. After a couple of seconds of your phone and console articulate to any other, you’ll see a summary on your phone revelation we which you’re connected:

Another “connected” summary will cocktail up at the bottom of your TV screen. You’re right away ready to begin browsing for content:

When we initial demeanour a the Xbox Companion app on your phone, you’ll be presented with the home screen, a place where you’ll see your ultimate played games. Slide the shade to the right and you’ll find the featured section. Here you’ll see newly expelled movies, albums or games. If we see something you’re meddlesome in, only press it.

If there’s zero which rught away stands out which you’d similar to to download or watch, slip the shade to the right again where we can operate the Bing poke duty to find a total operation of media content.

Once you’ve found what you’re seeking for – which latest manuscript or blockbuster movie – we can attend to or watch it, streamed by your TV – tranquil by your Nokia Lumia 710, Nokia Lumia 800 or Nokia Lumia 900.

What about if we only wish to poke for an app similar to YouTube or Netflix? Use the Bing poke section, sort it in and name the suitable results. Using the maritime keypad in the Xbox Companion app we can afterwards corkscrew by calm at your convenience as we would on your normal controller.

Have we had the possibility to operate the Xbox Companion app yet?  Tell us what we consider of it, regulating the comments territory below.