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Symbian signs with Sling for mobile TV

Symbian News Digital entertainment firm Sling Media has teamed up with Symbian in a bid to redirect or "place shift" TV from users' homes to their mobile phones.Under the terms of the alliance Sling Media will deliver its SlingPlayer Mobile software, which is currently available only in North America, for Symbian OS in selected European and Asian countries during the final quarter of this year.The application is designed to deliver home TV on mobile handsets using standard network connections including 3G cellular and Wi-Fi. SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian OS will support Symbian smartphones on S60 and UIQ. It will allow mobile viewing of terrestrial TV, Freeview, cable and satellite.In addition, SlingPlayer Mobile lets users control their home personal video recorder to watch recorded shows, pause and rewind live TV or even queue new recordings while away from home. Blake Krikorian, co-founder and chief executive at Sling Media, described the application as "pure sweetness". "People love their living room TV programming and simply want the ability to watch it on any device wherever they happen to be, whether at work on their PC, around the home on their wireless laptop, or on the go via their mobile phone." More than 82 million Symbian smartphones have been sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators. According to Gartner, Symbian accounted for about 71 per cent of worldwide smartphone shipments in the second quarter of 2006. Set as favorite Bookmark Email This Hits: 907 Trackback(0) TrackBack URI for this entry Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Write comment Name Email Website Comment smaller | bigger Subscribe via email (Registered users only) Write the displayed characters Add Comment ! Technorati Tags:

 

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