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.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2006 4:23AM]

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2006 4:25AM]

Hmm, HTML link didn't work, here's the link:

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