Sling Media will deliver aversion of its popular SlingPlayer Mobile software application, currently available only in the U.S.and Canada, for Symbian OS in select European and Asian countries during Q4 and will extend availability to the U.S.shortly there after. SlingPlayer Mobile delivers customers' complete home TV experience on mobile handsets using standard network connections, including 3G cellular and WiFi.

The new SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian OS software package will enable users to transform their supported Symbian smartphones on S60 and UIQ into personal, on-the-go digital TVs providing anytime, anywhere access to their living room television experience. Any program that can be watched athome will be viewable through a Slingbox on supported Symbian smartphones using3G or WiFi, including support for terrestrial TV, Freeview, cable, andsatellite TV.

In addition, SlingPlayer Mobile lets users control their home personal video recorder (PVR) to watch recorded shows, pause, and rewind live TV or even queue new recordings while away from home.

“Symbian’s market leading position drove our decision to work with them and deliver the Slingbox experience to a large mobile customer base,” said Blake Krikorian, co-founder and CEO of Sling Media. "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. I've been using a beta version of the SlingPlayer Mobile on a Symbian smartphone, and it's pure sweetness."

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world’s leading handset manufacturers. To date, over82 million Symbian smartphones have been sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators. According to Gartner, Symbian accounted for about 71 percent of worldwide smartphone shipments in the second quarter of 2006.

(Picture at the top right is the SlingPlayer Mobile for Treo 700w)

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