http://tv.spb.com
http://www.spb.com/pocketpc-software/tv/
http://www.spb.com/android-software/tv/
http://www.spb.com/iphone-software/tv/
http://www.spb.com/blackberry-software/tv/
http://www.spb.com/symbian-software/tv/
http://www.spb.com/webos-software/tv/
As a long-time Windows Mobile fan I’m familiar with SPB. They were one of two or three suites of software that really made Windows Mobile useful.
They created this SPB TV for Windows Mobile about the time that I transitioned away to the iPhone, so I never did more than play with it a little. I remember being unimpressed with the channel selection.
However they have parlayed this into something pretty amazing, a cross-platform mobile IPTV solution, if I understand things right.
They have Windows Mobile, iPhone (/iPad), Android, Blackberry, WebOS, and Symbian clients! There’s a WAP version available for other mobile platforms. They have 2 million users now, and over 150 channels.
Even though the clients appear to be free on most platforms, you only get a couple of channels to try out. There’s actually a roughly $10 charge as best I can tell, to get full functionality and content. However there are no recurring subscription fees, instead there are ads.
I’m just getting started in trying it out, so I can’t comment much on quality yet. On Android over wifi I only seem to get a minute or two before the video dies or buffers, but that may not be an app problem.
As I understand they are working on carrier agreements as well, which could play heavily into the long-term viability of the solution.
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