SlingPlayer Mobile for WinMo adds new resolutions, devices

While the BlackBerry camp sits and waits patiently for its public beta to begin in a few days, Sling has been hard at working bringing its SlingPlayer Mobile for Windows Mobile up to snuff for the latest round of devices finding their way into pockets as of late. Notably, the app supports several new resolutions -- 800x480, 640x480, 400x240, and 320x320 -- and a whole host of new phones, including the AT&T Fuze, Sprint / Verizon Touch Pro, and the Samsung Epix, among eleven others. The update is available immediately; should be interesting to see how this looks on an X1 clipping along at WVGA, eh?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 23rd 2008 11:45PM]

Hate to break it to you guys at engadget, but slingbox worked on the Touch Pro from day one.....................

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 24th 2008 1:18AM]

We didn't officially support 640x480 and there were some issues which have been addressed with the new release and official support.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 24th 2008 12:44AM]

Just so evereyone knows, this app does not enable the streaming of higher resolutions like 640x480, etc. The max streamed resolution is still 320x240, but with this update, it just means that on devices with higher resolutions such as 640x480, the video will be properly scaled to whatever resolution your device supports. Hence, the higher resolutions listed are 'supported' but the video stream your device is receiving is still a max of 320x240.