Written by Chris Albrecht
Posted Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 10:30 PM PT

 

Sling, vSNAX Do Vid Apps for iPhones

From our poll, it looks like most of you are salivating over the thought of a video-enabled iPhone — more than half of some 740 voters said they would buy such a device. But there are already some iPhone video apps already being shown off in advance of tomorrow’s announcement by third-party developers.

Sling Media will unveil its SlingPlayer place-shifting service running on a “jail broken” iPhone on Monday. But Sling fans will feel a little crestfallen, it’s just a proof-of-concept right now, and won’t be available to customers until after the Sling folks have had a chance to play around with the iPhone SDK. The company isn’t even demo’ing it on the show floor, instead presenting it at a nearby Starbucks.

Meanwhile, Rhythm New Media will unveil vSNAX, which is a free mobile video service that will offer news, gossip, weather, sports highlights, short films and more.

Indubitably this will not be the only video-for-iPhone news we hear this week. Check back tomorrow for all the juicy details from St. Steve’s keynote.

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  1. I’m tired of Sling’s vaporware. What happen to “Sling Catcher?”

    Joel Price on June 8th, 2008 at 10:48 pm - Permalink
  2. [...] Engadget (video) Gizmodo (video) Zatz Not Funny (video) PVR Wire @ TV Squad Ars Technica Macworld NewTeeVee Electronista jkOnTheRun The Mobile Gadgeteer Crave Mobility Today Gizmos for [...]

    Gizmo Lovers Blog » Blog Archive » SlingPlayer Mobile For iPhone Proof Of Concept Demonstrated on June 9th, 2008 at 2:25 am - Permalink
  3. You can already watch any video you find on the Internet on the iphone and ipod touch (yes, not only youtube or QT, Avi, wmv, mpeg,… as well) with http://reeplay.it

    BTW, you can watch them on your mobile phone, wii, psp, …

    Joseph on June 9th, 2008 at 2:35 am - Permalink
  4. [...] The masters of place-shifting will bring you their mobile version for the iPhone…eventually. It’s not ready yet, but iPhone users who have jealously watched their BlackBerry and Windows Mobile carrying-friends [...]

    The New iPhone Is Apptastic! - GigaOM on June 9th, 2008 at 2:08 pm - Permalink
  5. [...] one of our favorites came from Rhythm NewMedia.  They just announced the availability of the free vSNAX Videos native iPhone application on the Apple App Store. The application delivers premium mobile video [...]

    MTV Hits the iPhone (with others) | Hollytorial on July 10th, 2008 at 3:10 pm - Permalink
  6. [...] Videos: Watch CBS, Spike, VH1, etc. Made by Rhythm NewMedia. See our original coverage from before WWD. [...]

    Hardly Any Video Apps for Your iPhone « NewTeeVee on July 11th, 2008 at 10:34 am - Permalink

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