BBC launches iPhone iPlayer app within the UK, adds 3G streaming to its mobile site

While international viewers have had around every week to play with the brand new dedicated iPhone app , the Beeb has finally launched its iPlayer in its native UK. Replacing the browser-based player of old, it now lets you stream both radio and television shows through a 3G connection. The recent app also adds HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) which permits itself to tweak the stream quality reckoning on your signal strength and hopefully allowing you to atone for Top Gear uninterrupted. Like its overseas version, the recent iOS app also throws in AirPlay streaming to Apple TV. Android and Symbian fans shouldn’t feel too overlooked; The BBC are promising to enable 3G to all compatible devices through its mobile web version very soon, with a dedicated 3G-friendly Android app being primed for the recent year.

[Thanks Michael]

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