Sling Media Inc. today announced that SlingPlayer Mobile is now available for smartphones running the UIQ user interface on Symbian OS, including popular smartphones from Motorola and Sony Ericsson.

"UIQ offers a unique and smooth user interface experience, seamlessly blending services, content and phone features, which is why we’re so excited to announce the availability of SlingPlayer Mobile on UIQ," commented Stuart Collingwood, vice president of Europe for Sling Media. "With over two-and-a-half billion global 3G and WiFi connections, the market potential for mobile TV is huge. Not only have we expanded our support for Symbian smartphones but we’re also providing more Slingbox owners with the ability to watch and control their home TV using even more of the mostpopular smartphones available in Europe."

The enhanced, personalised mobile TV experience for smartphones is enabled by Sling Media’s award-winning Slingbox which allows customers to watch and control their home TV on an Internet-connected Mac or PC as well as a range of mobile phone platforms. Support for UIQ handsets further extends Sling Media’s commitment to Europe and complements the already popular Slingbox. 

"SlingPlayer Mobile is an innovative and compelling application that compliments the UIQ platform which itself has been designed to get the very best out of the Symbian OS," said Elisabet Melin, VP Ecosystem, UIQ Technology. "This new release of SlingPlayer Mobile for UIQ on the Symbian OS offers compelling new data revenue opportunities to operators and a feature-rich service to consumers looking for convenient access to their home TV channel surfing, programming and viewing experience."

The UIQ handsets that will support SlingPlayer Mobile at launch include:

• Sony Ericsson P1i
• Sony Ericsson P990i
• Sony Ericsson W960i
• Sony Ericsson W950i
• Sony Ericsson M600i
• Sony Ericsson G700
• Sony Ericsson G900
• Motorola Z8
• Motorola Z10

A full list of compatible smartphones for all SlingPlayer Mobile-supported platforms can also be found at http://uk.slingmedia.com/go/spm-requirements.

The retail price of the application is £19.99 GBP, including VAT. For a list of supported handsets and the application download, please visit http://downloads.slingmedia.com/go/mobile-uk.

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