I have a Treo 700p and I too will buy a Slingbox only when you create a PalmOS client.  

As announced at CES, we've released a publicly available player for the 700p by the end of March.  We're working on supporting other models of course, but the 700p was a logical starting point due to its support of 3G. 

There's only one situation I know of in which the current release simply won't run on a 700p: a small fraction of Sprint 700p owners have a phone with no serial number (HSSN).  You can check to see if you have an HSSN, using the Phone Info icon from your main Palm OS home screen.

Next I would check basic data streaming capabilities, e.g. Blazer, pTunes, etc.  If these stream reasonably well, and you have a 700p with an HSSN, then you should be set to stream your TV using SPM for Palm OS (assuming you have a Slingbox of course).

For the 700p cases with a missing HSSN, we're working on a fix.  This fix hopefully will have positive spill-over consequences for other models that get stuck at the registration screen. 

I don't yet have a release date for the fix, but we'll obviously need to do in-house testing once it's ready, so I would plan on at least a couple of weeks.  Why?  Because we can't release a build that hasn't gone through a basic level of testing first.  (We don't plan on being responsible for (e.g.) data loss any time soon.)  This is the nature of the development beast.  We're pretty focused though and will remain on schedule if at all humanly possible.

Meanwhile, 700p users (with the above caveats) can sling today.

I too am trying to load the s'ware but cannot get pass the registration screen. It asks me for a reg #. I have had no problems streaming with ptunes....

 thanx - john

Hmmm ... most Palms are NOT phones.  Palm OS is not a phone OS, it's a PDA OS.  Until you support Palm PDA's, you don't support Palm.

Tungsten C, and LifeDrive have WiFi, other Palms have Bluetooth networking (FWIW).  How about supporting those?

Sharon - its not a 700p. I also have the LifeDrive which has had no problems with Video or streaming video over the net.  I was commenting on the Lifedrive, which may be the problem. Thanx for your support and quick response. I will try to work around this issue. I wonder, is there a registration number I can use to try it out? I imagine there are a lot of us out here willing to play guinea pigs :-)  to help test this.

When starting out the Slingware asks me for my email address and a registration number.

thanx again -

Sharon R. (Sling Media) said: As announced at CES, we've released a publicly available player for the 700p by the end of March.  We're working on supporting other models of course, but the 700p was a logical starting point due to its support of 3G.  There's only one situation I know of in which the current release simply won't run on a 700p: a small fraction of Sprint 700p owners have a phone with no serial number (HSSN).  You can check to see if you have an HSSN, using the Phone Info icon from your main Palm OS home screen. Next I would check basic data streaming capabilities, e.g. Blazer, pTunes, etc.  If these stream reasonably well, and you have a 700p with an HSSN, then you should be set to stream your TV using SPM for Palm OS (assuming you have a Slingbox of course). For the 700p cases with a missing HSSN, we're working on a fix.  This fix hopefully will have positive spill-over consequences for other models that get stuck at the registration screen.  I don't yet have a release date for the fix, but we'll obviously need to do in-house testing once it's ready, so I would plan on at least a couple of weeks.  Why?  Because we can't release a build that hasn't gone through a basic level of testing first.  (We don't plan on being responsible for (e.g.) data loss any time soon.)  This is the nature of the development beast.  We're pretty focused though and will remain on schedule if at all humanly possible. Meanwhile, 700p users (with the above caveats) can sling today.

Ahh!  Thanks for that explanation, Sharon - I think I understand now why the TX doesn't work with the current build.  Presumably the HSSN is similar to the IMEI present in GSM phones and provides a way for Sling to 'marry up' a device and a reg code.  Hmm - out of interest I'll go back to an earlier version of the beta (that didn't have the same registration bug) and try it with the Kinoma codecs on board!

Alan