The latest app from satellite broadcaster BSkyB has popped up on the Play Store today, with the Sky NOW TV app letting Android users access the corporation’s new, streaming, on-demand TV and movie content through their phones. Prices for content start at 99p for film rentals and hit a high of around the £4 mark, or there’s an option of paying for a £15 all-you-can-watch subscription.
The disappointing news is the app’s initial compatibility list, with Sky saying it’ll only work on the HTC Desire, HTC Desire HD, HTC Desire S, HTC Incredible S, and Samsung Galaxy S right now. Which is pretty rubbish given the pre-launch hype Sky generated for this yesterday.
Not as excited about this as we were yesterday, to put it mildly. If you’d like to give it a try, Sky NOW TV is on the Play Store here. There’s a 30-day free trial on offer, which might be worth taking up and hammering the hell out of.
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
The HTC One V is HTC’s third entry in its high-profile new HTC One range, offering a smaller 3.7″ display running on a single-core 1GHz processor. It is is very much the “affordable” option in HTC’s newest Android series, but…
The HTC One S is the piggy in the middle of HTC’s 2012 line-up, offering a 4.3″ AMOLED display inside a very slim and stylish aluminium chassis. The end result is a phone that’s very, very slim and stylish.
HTC’s new quad-core monster, the 4.7″ flagship for 2012 that introduces the Tegra 3 processor to mobile phones, updates HTC’s range to Android 4.0 and brings us the supposedly streamlined version 4.0 of HTC’s Sense user interface.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Mark
/ July 18, 2012Idiots like this are why Android has a fragmentation bad rap.
There is no reason why a properly coded app wouldn’t work on all Android devices. Unless you didn’t have an idea what you were doing….
mintvilla
/ July 18, 2012Why would anyone pay £15 a month when netflix is only £6?
Mark
/ July 18, 2012Because they are mad, or agree with what Murdoch got upto with the phone tapping scandals.
Peninsula
/ July 20, 2012Mark: “There is no reason why a properly coded app wouldn’t work on all Android devices.”
Yep, totally agree. Rubbish list of compatibility. Fine if it won’t work on say a San Francisco (sorry OSF owners, couldn’t think of another budget handset more than a year old), but the newest phones like One X and S3? Come on.
Won’t work on one tablet? And for example, what is the difference for the dev between the HTC Sensation, which it works on, and the HTC Sensation XL, which it won’t!?
tafkawac
/ July 20, 2012Update:
Now works on galaxy note,S3 and some other devices I’m too lazy to list.
Although, there is no Anytime + on the Galaxy Note. Sky really are poor at Android coding.