Sona Mobile, a leading provider of wireless mobility solutions, today announced that it is launching the first-ever Blackberry Media Player, a software application designed to offer multimedia applications at near TV quality playback on the BlackBerry.
“We are thrilled to be first to market with a media player for BlackBerry devices. For the very first time, BlackBerry users can receive either BerryCast (PodCasts wirelessly updated) or streaming video on their mobile devices,” said John Bush, CEO and President of Sona Mobile.
CanWest MediaWorks will be the first customer for Sona Mobile’s BlackBerry Media Player and will supply news content daily for Sona Mobile BerryCast, which allows BlackBerry users to take advantage of a download-and-play method multimedia content delivery.
“We are very excited about being first to market with Sona,” said Mario Alfano, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Strategy of CanWest MediaWorks’ Interactive Division. Being able to provide our news and TV content to BlackBerry users opens up an important new market for CanWest MediaWorks, and the availability of relevant Canadian video content is very good news for BlackBerry users.”
Via TMCNet
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Ahh…the first steps towards multimedia on a BB…this could be good…
When is the media player for blackberry will be available for download ?
My use is not for pleasure but mainly for business
Regards
Gilles Carignan
It already is available in Canada…
I have the CanWest VideoPlayer aka BBTV.
Here’s the download link: http://video.sonamobile.com/ota2
Even with my blackberry’s EVDO high-speed internet connection(768kbps theoretical speed), it still takes five to twenty minutes to download one minute of video before you can start to watch the video.
One the video is playing, the audio is pretty good but the video is blocky, stuttered, and not always in sync with the audio.
All in all I’d say its a great beta product (except its not beta). I think in the future when data connections are faster and the Blackberry processor is faster and they have implemented a better video playback algorythm then this will be a great product.
Here is another crazy idea… Can a blackberry be used in conjuction with a slingbox?
My curve is crap I only want to watch u tube but it won’t play the video I keep trying to install a.media player and it comes up with more strange jargon please help as I live on a boat and have no pc