The latest version of my favorite Bittorrent client uTorrent has a pretty cool new feature: iOS support. And while that doesn’t mean uTorrent’s coming to the App Store, it does mean you have a new and easy way to sync torrented content with your iPhone or iPad.
Although uTorrent’s new iOS support doesn’t allow you to torrent on your iPhone, it does mean that after you’ve used the desktop version of uTorrent to download a movie, the new 3.1 Alpha will convert that file to the best format for your device: MP4s.
Sadly, this functionality has only come to uTorrent’s Windows Alpha build right now, and apparently, its inclusion in the Alpha was an error: instead, this functionality will be rolled out to uTorrent in the future as part of a for-pay, premium version of uTorrent called uTorrent Plus.
That’s disappointing. uTorrent is famous for its minimalism, and as much as I like the idea of on-the-fly converting of torrents into iOS appropriate files, the idea of it being a paid upgrade really seems to me to be losing the plot.
