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BlackBerry Media Player announced…

April 28, 2006 by Robb Dunewood 7 Comments

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

BlackBerry Media Player, Sona Mobile, CanWest MediaWorks

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  1. thought says

    April 28, 2006 at 8:10 pm

    Ahh…the first steps towards multimedia on a BB…this could be good…

    Reply
  2. Gilles Carignan says

    February 4, 2007 at 9:17 am

    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

    Reply
  3. Robb Dunewood says

    February 4, 2007 at 10:00 am

    It already is available in Canada…

    Reply
  4. Who Me? says

    February 4, 2007 at 1:59 pm

    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.

    Reply
  5. burnouttx says

    January 14, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    Here is another crazy idea… Can a blackberry be used in conjuction with a slingbox?

    Reply
  6. craig wright says

    October 24, 2009 at 9:24 am

    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

    Reply
  7. bebe says

    January 30, 2010 at 1:23 am

    I have a question about the media player I have a sprint 8703e blackberry(yea I know old right?)How do I upgrade the media player so I can watch youtube videos please help!!!!!!
    Bebe

    Reply

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