SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry Arrives
Posted on 4th January, 2009 by BC Blog Team
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"Before the end of the year." That’s the mantra BlackBerry owners have heard over and over again since the 2008 CES show back in January. It’s still 2008 (barely), but it least they made it. A public beta of SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry is out NOW . BlackBerry owners have been eagerly waiting to watch Slingbox streams from their mobile phones for well over a year. It’s been a long road, but at least some of them (GSM BlackBerry users) get to join the "I watch TV on my cell phone" fan club, which until now had been exclusive to Windows Mobile, Palm, and Symbian users. BlackBerry owners on CDMA networks like Verizon and Sprint still have to hold out hope whatever platform glitch preventing SlingPlayer from working will get resolved in the future. While the official launch isn’t until at least midnight Eastern, members here in the community have reported that if you point your Blackberry browser to mobile.slingmedia.com you can download the public beta now. What are you still reading this for? GO get it! Just don’t forget to come back and share your thoughts about it either in the discussion below or in the forums . Have…
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So, at this time, I think we are all aware of the somewhat successful comeback of Britney Spears since her disasterous "Blakout" era, which not only describes the name of her album at the time, but an apt description of her life in general. But since then, she’s ditched some of the more unsavory characters present in her life, hired back her old manager, Larry Rudolph, and has released "Circus", an album that reminds some of us of the old Britney many of us loved. Okay, so many of us NEVER liked her, but whether or not you ever did, you gotta admit she’s doin’ a LOT better. And even if you’re not a fan, it is sad. It’s sad because she was just a little girl exploited by her parents and svengali producers because, c’mon, it’s what she wanted! It was her passion, right? So why not exploit– I mean NURTURE her, because there are very few cute, singing and dancing 15-year-old girls with stars in their eyes. *Stepping off her soapbox now* So, Womanizer isn’t, like, a great part of the American pop canon, but it’s kinda okay (btw, she thinks you’re a womanizer, like, 60 times over…
As if the latest software update for SlingCatcher wasn’t enough to get SlingCatcher owners something to smile about, Sling Media’s let loose a new desktop enhancement for SlingCatcher, dubbed SlingSync BETA, designed to make it easier to enjoy all those digital audio and video files on your SlingCatcher. So what does SlingSync BETA do? To put it simply, connect a USB storage device to your PC, select the audio and video files you wish to view on your PC, and SlingSync will transfer them to your drive in a SlingCatcher friendly format. Like any BETA software, there may be some bugs in there, so it’s recommended you back up your digital files before working with SlingSync. Stay tuned to SlingCommunity for NA9D’s full SlingSync BETA Review… Download SlingSync BETA | Discuss SlingSync BETA in the SlingCatcher Forum
For those who’ve already gotten a SlingCatcher , or happen to open one from Santa in a few days, you’ll be excited to know that Sling Media’s got an update ready sure to enhance your Christmas cheer better than a glass of egg nog and some holiday cookies. Nearly every facet of Sling’s Catching device has been given some some love, from SlingPlayer for TV to SlingProjector. So what’s coming to your Catcher for the holidays? For starters, Sling Media’s unwrapped the public beta of SlingSync, which is a simple application that makes it easy to enjoy your audio/video files on your SlingCatcher. We’ve drawn up a separate entry for this one. Learn more about it here . First up is SlingPlayer for TV, which is giving you better integration with Sling Accounts, and improved, more reliable streaming from remote Slingboxes to SlingCatcher. You’ll also be happy to know that SlingCatcher can remember the resolution setting for each Slingbox. Just set the Slingbox resolution from the Advanced menu for the remote Slingbox. Next is MyMedia, which is said to have received a variety of enhancements that improve performance and stability. Plus, there’s a new feature that allows you to play…
Trying to keep up with the ever changing landscape of mobile devices, Sling Media has let loose an updated version of SlingPlayer Mobile for Pocket PC and Smartphone . This isn’t the major re-write of the app that Sling Media has been hinting about in certain discussions here in the community, but instead an interim update to bring some Sling goodness to the swarm of new handsets that have recently hit the market sporting never-before-seen screen resolutions like 800×480, 640×480, 400×240, and 320×320. So which new devices should SlingPlayer Mobile now support? The list is long, but includes: Sprint Treo 800w (US) Sony Ericsson X1 (US & UK) Palm Treo Pro (US & UK) Sprint HTC Touch Diamond (US) Sprint HTC Touch Pro (US) Verizon HTC Touch Pro (US) Verizon Samsung Saga (US) Verizon Samsung Omnia (US) AT&T LG Incite (US & UK) AT&T HTC Fuze (US & UK) AT&T Samsung Epix (US & UK) HP iPAQ 910 (US & UK) AT&T Pantech Duo (US) Sprint Samsung ACE (US) Verizon XV6900 (US) Beyond support for additional devices, SlingPlayer Mobile is also getting a slew of other important enhancements: Provided you install SlingPlayer Mobile using the .EXE file, it will once…
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SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today announced that it has been named an International CES Innovations 2009 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree for its 16 gigabyte (GB) 1 microSDHCâ?¢ and Memory Stick Microâ?¢ (M2)â?¢ mobile phone memory cards. Products entered in this prestigious program are judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the trade …
MILPITAS, Calif.—-SanDisk Corporation today announced that it has been named an International CES Innovations 2009 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree for its 16 gigabyte 1 microSDHCâ?¢ and Memory Stick Microâ?¢ â?¢ mobile phone memory cards.
