This request has a certain justice and symetry to it!  After months and months of people bitching on these boards about the impossibility of legally getting the windows mobile version in the UK, it seems we have exaclty the same situation for the Symbian client in the US!

 Maybe just to complete the circle (and wind up even more customers) they should make it available on 30 day trial in the US so you can breifly taste what you're missing - but also make it so you can't pay for it!

 Schadenfraude aside for a minute.  Seriously sling - you have people in both countries waiting to throw money at you for these products - why not release them!

Yeah, I too have been a bit steamed. I bought my slingbox this past week because it has the Symbian logo on it. Prior to seeing the logo I didn't even have the desire to buy one. But I figured hey I can stream to my Nokia N80, that would be cool. 

Thanks for winding Willy, now you got me started...

How disappointing. I am still debating if I will return it or keep it in hopes of the software release. But I know how that goes, everyone speculates that it will be out in a month and six months later everyone is still complaining because there isnt any software for it. Just like the Mac software I have been reading about. When a CEO has to write an apology to customers heads should roll. This whole Symbian issue shows the either heads didnt roll or the wrong ones did.

Honestly I think it is a bit unethical to ship a box that claims it supports an OS and it really doesnt. Heck the documentation inside the box dosent even mention it. A bit of false advertisement I believe. I can understand that it takes time to write software and work out bugs. But dont advertise it until you have it to offer.

More than likely we the consumers are on the crappy end of a bad management decision. Someone ordered a gizillion boxes and instead of facing a production cost loss just shipped them out and hoped no one would notice. They could have saved face and added a little sticker that said "Comming Soon" above the logo.

Charging $30 for the mobile software walks the fine legality line. The box leads you to believe that once you buy the Slingbox you have everything you need to make it work. "So now that we stuck you for $169+, we're gonna hit you up for another $30 just so you can make work like we advertised"

Even if they included a little blurb ot the status once a week they could earn a little more respect.

Bottom line: Bad business practices. Shame, shame. I am suprised in our litigous society Sling hasnt been sued.

I know your thinking geesh why doesnt this guy stop bitching and just return it. Well, it's a matter of principal. And the technology is intreguing. I hold a bit of hope that they come through.

Just my opinion

Pardon my spelling....

any new info?

Based on the email I got from their marketing VP, it seems the lauch date is still.......  Anyhow, here is part of recap from his replied,

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Let me check in with our SlingPlayer Mobile software team today and get you the latest information regarding the roadmap timing for the 990i.
 
Happy Holidays!
 
Rich Buchanan
VP Marketing
Sling Media

I have the symbian client that was released for the 3 X-series N73.  The client installs fine on my non-3 N73 but somehow is unable to connect to the Sling Location Finder Service probably because I am not on the 3 network or because Sling has somehow blocked unregistered phones from connecting to the location finder service.  Anybody wants to try, pm me your email and I will send it to you.

I had the same experience as magneto04. I installed the client on E60, but I don't have 3 service. I was hoping it will use wifi. But it gets stuck and cannot get past the finder service. The other option - connecting directly do WAN is not available. It seems this client clearly needs to use 3's network.

kingweb said: That is interesting, you said that you were not able to connect to Sling's finder service. But what if I know the WAN IP address and don't need Slings service?

Sadly kingweb that's not possible as there is no option to specify the IP address on the Sling Mobile player. 

Totally agree with WillyWonka up there.

I'm willing to bet that the Symbian software for US users is made available long before Sling bother doing anything about the Windows Mobile software for UK users though.

Still, I feel sorry for anyone (like me) who - based on the information available (ie: the misleading packaging) bought a Slingbox exclusively for mobile use and basically ended up wasting their money on a useless lump of plastic.

Sling may eventually sort things out, but their reputation for customer service (if they ever had one) is taking a hell of a beating.

I have been fooling with the client designed for the UK 3 network. As it is, it only uses 3G for a connection. The problem in the US seems to be that the big carriers are already limiting or blocking the streaming on their networks because they want to sell their own streaming video. T-Mobile still doesnt have their 3G network running.

All I want is a Symbian S60 player that uses WIFI. It shouldnt be that hard of a conversion of the software already in use for 3G.