It’s about time, isn’t it? It’s been a few months since we showed you SlingMedia demoing Slingplayer Mobile, then SlingMedia submits the app for approval. Two months later, here we are, Slingplayer for iPhone is available on the AppStore.

SlingPlayer Mobile allows you to watch and control your home TV and DVR from your iPhone and iPod touch. This is accomplished by using one of SlingMedia’s media devices. Ah, but there’s a gotcha as usual, due to concerns about network congestion, the application will only stream video over Wi-Fi connections and does not support 3G or EDGE.

SlingPlayer Mobile costs a whopping $29.99 and it’s available at the AppStore (iTunes Link)

In a brief note on SlingMedia’s website, the company notes the following: “We are in close contact with our partners at Apple and are optimistic that it will be approved soon. We hope the wait won’t be much longer.” SlingMedia had demoed SlingPlayer in action at Macworld and then a few months after that, SlingMedia submitted Slingplayer for iPhone for approval to the AppStore.

Since then, it’s been months of excitement and anticipation followed by the gruesome depression as lightly sourced rumors arise saying that Apple may turn down SlingPlayer for iPhone at the request of AT&T, who are worried about all bandwidth the app may use up. Of course, AT&T and other carriers do offer phones that the SlingMedia Mobile app works on but of course those phones will never come close to the footprint the iPhone has made. Hopefully, SlingMedia knows something that the rest of use don’t.

There have also been rumors that Slingplayer for iPhone will turn out to be Wi-Fi only which will be a huge downer for those who will be expecting to start Slinging away where ever they might be. Hopefully it won’t be wi-fi only, who knows.

Stay tuned!

- source: slingmedia.com

Yay! That’s right! Sling Media’s SingPlayer Mobile has been submitted to Apple for approval. And it should be available for download any time soon!

From Sing Media’s Website:

We’re been working hard to bring the SlingPlayer Mobile experience to the iPhone and iPod Touch. We’ve submitted the first release of our application to the iPhone App Store. In the mean time, take a sneak peek!

Sling Media demoed SlingPlayer Mobile For iPhone at Macworld in January. And Sling Media promised they were submitting this for approval in March and here we are, it’s March and It’s been submitted.

- source: slingmedia.com

Sling Media was at MacWorld this week demonstrating awesome new products for slingbox owners. Slingbox is a set top box that allows users to stream video from your cable set top box or DVR over the internet to supported devices.

Sling Media has been demonstrating different versions of Slingplayer for iPhone for months but there has been little word when this app will hit AppStore shelves. This app will allow slingbox owners to stream TV or video from anything that has HDMI, component or composite over the internet to their iPhone via Wi-Fi, 3G, and even EDGE. Sling Media was demonstrating an early version of the SlingPlayer for iPhone on the Macworld show floor.

SlingPlayer for iPhone will be submitted to the App Store in March of this year. Sling Media representatives expect the application to be approved by Apple. Pricing has not yet been set.

- source: theiphoneblog.com