Sling announces Symbian SlingPlayer, partnership with 3

Believe it or not, in some countries personal broadcasting to mobile video is actually encouraged, and Sling's about to capitalize on that more democratic "wireless dialtone" trend. (Verizon, Cingy, we're looking at you.) Paired up with 3, they've announced their SlingPlayer Symbian client for UIQ and S60 alike. At least the N73 and W950 have officially now been shown running the new client it as a part of 3's X-Series initiative, aimed at making mobile internet, well, useful to customers without fear of reprisal for data usage. (Verizon, Cingy, we're still looking at you.) UK residents will be able to get their hands on X-series gear come December 1st, but the rest of us may have to wait some undetermined amount of time before the Symbian client is released for mass consumption.

[Sergio @ Nov 16th 2006 3:49AM]

Drool... both of those phones should really be over here in the states

[Digitalosh @ Nov 16th 2006 4:10AM]

Once again effectively proving why we need Symbian over here in North America.

[Antoine Quint @ Nov 16th 2006 4:34AM]

If anyone is interested in knowing a bit more about how this app was conceived from a user interface point of view, I wrote a piece about using Mobile SVG to power this app's UI following discussion with the SlingMedia interaction designer who worked on this puppy.

http://the.fuchsia-design.com/2006/11/look-into-slingplayer-mobiles-use-of.html

[Olivier @ Nov 16th 2006 7:37AM]

Now all we need for the Symbian phones is a decent Video player like TCPMP or VLC.
At the moment we're all stuck with a POS stripped down Real-Player..

[dirkjuz @ Nov 16th 2006 10:11AM]

Coreplayer for Symbian should be out any day now. SlingPlayer could be a competitor though - they say S60 but I wonder if S90 is also supported as the platform is nearly identical, and the Nokia 7710 seems the ideal device (big & widescreen) for video.

[Pete @ Nov 16th 2006 8:41AM]

What's the model number of the SE phone on the left?

[gadget @ Nov 16th 2006 9:40AM]

The Sony/Ericsson phone is the W950i and the Nokia is the N73. Both are 3G dualband GSM phones.

http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=global&lc=en&ver=4001&template=pp1_1_1&zone=pp&lm=pp1&pid=10391

http://www.nokia.com/n73

[M. Rod Von Hugenstein @ Nov 16th 2006 10:25AM]

It's not that Verizon and Cingular are afraid of the Slingbox, they just don't want people to have something for free, that could generate revenue for the company.

[Tomas @ Feb 19th 2007 9:29PM]

Any word on Slingbox for Palm OS? There are a lot of us out here who love our 700p, but could use just one more piece of software to make the experience complete.

[Tomas @ Nov 16th 2006 11:57AM]

Any word on Slingbox for Palm OS? There are a lot of us out here who love our 700p, but could use just one more piece of software to make the experience complete.

[Jonathan Greene @ Nov 16th 2006 9:44PM]

the nokia n73 is s60v3 symbian which may be the base requirement... means we'd be good with the n80, n93 and n91 as well as the e-series like the e61. wifi enabled units make this even tastier.

[Bjorn @ Nov 17th 2006 11:22AM]

Olivier,

Abre los ojos:
http://www.s60tips.com/2006/09/29/featured-freeware-divx-player-for-s60/