Saturday, October 17, 2009

iPlayer on Nokia 5800 (S60, 5th Ed)

The great BBC iPlayer (www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer) works very well on several devices, I have already blogged about this for iPhone/iPod Touch devices and now I’m using it on my Nokia 5800. When streaming video I suggest you use a Wi-Fi connection rather that potentially high 3G/GPRS costs. Catching up on what you’ve missing from the Beeb is quite watchable on a handheld device, especially in a landscape view; as shown below. The best thing about iPlayer on the 5800 is that you can download a free widget that actually lets you download the iPlayer show etc on to your smartphone; I suggest you save it on to the memory card. I use a 8GB MicroSD card in my Nokia 5800, which I picked up for only £10 from CEX (www.cex.co.uk). Sorry about the quality, I couldn’t use my onboard screen-capture software, obviously a DRM issue, so a quick snap from my Samsung Omnia camera-phone.

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