SlingPlayer for Symbian gets official

by Chris Ziegler, posted Oct 17th 2006 at 2:19AM

The packing materials of Sling's new round of placeshfters foretold it, we just didn't know when or how it was going to go down. It turns out that they've selected London's Symbian Smartphone Show to announce SlingPlayer Mobile for the Symbian platform, surprisingly choosing to support both S60 and UIQ-based devices. We haven't seen the software in the flesh ourselves, but we'd expect the experience to be roughly on par with its Windows Mobile sibling, and we're hoping it comes out of the gate with the same attractive introductory $0 price tag. Expect to see it start to find its way onto Nseries devices (among others) in Europe and Asia starting this quarter, followed shortly thereafter by a US launch.

Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Symbian

Tags: s60, sling, sling media, SlingMedia, slingplayer, symbian, uiq

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Sarah @ Oct 17th 2006 3:56AM

What does it mean when they say Sling?

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PEZ @ Oct 17th 2006 11:36AM

One more reason to watch tv while you are talking on your cellphone in your car when you should be paying attention to the road but you cant because you have bit-torrent and you just need to see the new episode of HEROES. Rock it.

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Adrian @ Oct 17th 2006 2:42PM

NICE! I just got my Nokia E70 -- can't wait for this to be released. It's funny I just read this article because I was just watching CNN via my slingbox about 2 minutes ago here at work.

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Anthony @ Oct 17th 2006 9:51PM

Fantastic. We all knew it was coming, but I'm certainly glad to no longer have to lament the loss of my Windows Mobile device now that I've moved to the wonderful (though cameraless) E61.

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Pork @ Oct 29th 2006 1:41AM

I think it's a obivious choice for me. N73 or Treo 680?

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