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WOW! any one checked out Sprint TV any chance we'll get this on the iphone

I had MobiTV on my LG phone with AT&T before I got my iPhone. $9.95 per month, and it had both live TV (Discovery Channel, TLC, etc.) and videos. You had to have 3G, though. It worked well as long as I was in a 3G area (like Chicago, where I live - it was terrible on road trips!), but it drained the battery in less than an hour from full charge to dead. About 50 channels; it was kinda cool.

Now I have Elgato's EyeTV Hybrid (about $150) and iPhone Remote (free - Google it to download it). I can login to my computer from anywhere using my iPhone, and watch tv shows I recorded (free OTA HDTV using a $21 indoor table-top HDTV antenna or cable, since I have both hooked up to my Hybrid), and I don't have to pay anything extra. :p I can watch it live, but there's no sound, so that's not great. I still have to figure out how to get sound live - then it would be perfect! It works great with stuff I record, though! HD stuff looks like HD on the iPhone, too.

The screen is way better on the iPhone, it doesn't drain the battery any more than using Safari normally does, and I love it! I can use any program on my iMac from my iPhone with iPhone Remote, too. It's awesome! Of course, where I am, Edge isn't all that slow, so it's fine for me. Maybe for those in areas where Edge crawls it wouldn't work so well.
 
I read through the article, and I didn't see anything about it being exclusive. If anything, it sounds like they just opened it up to another platform, the Symbian OS, since it also mentioned it being on other platforms as well.
 
snook911 said:
actually watching it on the krzr screen was cool. It is pretty small though and you don't have to turn it sideways.
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I guess it looks good because the krzrs are 240x320 and in a small screen looks really sharp and vivid, but it's so small and im alredy blind, id go crosseyed.

Video conference is been in Japan for more than a decade!! bring it here alredy, sprint can do it on their network with ED-VO why dont they?
 
Wow, things are heating up all over in the mobile world.

  • ATT buying EchoStar, who's buying SlingBox.
  • Nokia buying NavTeq, who provides everyone with map data.
  • Motorola bought up Symbol, huge maker of industrial handhelds.
  • Microsoft still buying up every mobile search company in sight, hoping for a miracle. (Actually, i kind of like Live Mobile Search. I have friends who keep trying to get me into another startup in the hopes MS will buy us for millions.) :rolleyes:
  • Even talk of Microsoft buying RIM (Blackberry).

Gonna be interesting times ahead.
 
D1G1T4L said:
Exclusive?

http://downloads.slingmedia.com/go/us

Palm OS, Pocket PC, Symbian, Windows Smartphone all available for download.

What is exclusive?
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I believe all of those OS are owned or Partnered with each other. I dont think we will see slingbox come to iphone. Maybe some other simalar product though?

atarin said:
I had MobiTV on my LG phone with AT&T before I got my iPhone. $9.95 per month, and it had both live TV (Discovery Channel, TLC, etc.) and videos. You had to have 3G, though. It worked well as long as I was in a 3G area (like Chicago, where I live - it was terrible on road trips!), but it drained the battery in less than an hour from full charge to dead. About 50 channels; it was kinda cool.

Now I have Elgato's EyeTV Hybrid (about $150) and iPhone Remote (free - Google it to download it). I can login to my computer from anywhere using my iPhone, and watch tv shows I recorded (free OTA HDTV using a $21 indoor table-top HDTV antenna or cable, since I have both hooked up to my Hybrid), and I don't have to pay anything extra. :p I can watch it live, but there's no sound, so that's not great. I still have to figure out how to get sound live - then it would be perfect! It works great with stuff I record, though! HD stuff looks like HD on the iPhone, too.

The screen is way better on the iPhone, it doesn't drain the battery any more than using Safari normally does, and I love it! I can use any program on my iMac from my iPhone with iPhone Remote, too. It's awesome! Of course, where I am, Edge isn't all that slow, so it's fine for me. Maybe for those in areas where Edge crawls it wouldn't work so well.
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I assume you have to hack your iphone to get this to work.
 
ivnds said:
I guess it looks good because the krzrs are 240x320 and in a small screen looks really sharp and vivid, but it's so small and im alredy blind, id go crosseyed.

Video conference is been in Japan for more than a decade!! bring it here alredy, sprint can do it on their network with ED-VO why dont they?
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Sprint won't do it because they want you to save their bandwidth. That's why they've recently made the video smaller.

They say unlimited data but they don't want you to use it that way obviously and they certainly don't price the data plan for all of the holes (lack of EV-DO support) in-between cities with a population of 100,000 or more.

The U.S. market needs a huge change.
 
bousozoku said:
Sprint won't do it because they want you to save their bandwidth. That's why they've recently made the video smaller.

They say unlimited data but they don't want you to use it that way obviously and they certainly don't price the data plan for all of the holes (lack of EV-DO support) in-between cities with a population of 100,000 or more.

The U.S. market needs a huge change.
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And thats why they suck. The american carriers need to be less greedy, imagine how many more people they would get if they launched video conference even for 69.99 a month, if i were on the states id jump on it. Building a consumer base gives them money to build towers, but no, they want to save their bandwith like its oil.
 
snook911 said:
I assume you have to hack your iphone to get this to work.
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No hacking required. iPhone Remote is a web-based app. It turns your Mac into a web server and you access your Mac through Safari. Nothing goes onto the iPhone. You can use apple scripts triggered by an email to yourself to open the server only when you need it and then close it back up again for security. But no hacking is required!
 
ivnds said:
And thats why they suck. The american carriers need to be less greedy, imagine how many more people they would get if they launched video conference even for 69.99 a month, if i were on the states id jump on it. Building a consumer base gives them money to build towers, but no, they want to save their bandwith like its oil.
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I'm not arguing. I'm with Sprint because they've been relatively good to me, though they're only my second carrier. I don't want to re-live the horror stories people have mentioned with Verizon and AT&T.

I wouldn't be one to use video conferencing. I don't pay extra to send photos or some of the other cutesy services. I do like my internet access, though. Thankfully, my phone is favoured by software developers and Yahoo! and Opera both have made specific versions of their software for it.
 
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