By People in the UK would be glad to hear that the BBC plans on releasing an official app for Android to deliver their core services such as BBC news and BBC sport, possibly even their interactive ‘catch up’ TV service – the iplayer.
According to their press release the BBC will first initially release an app for the iPhone in April, followed by Blackberry and Android apps “later in the year”. The BBC news app will have all the content available on their website and feature:
- Breaking news, updated throughout the day
- Personalisation, the ability to create a personal news experience
- User-generated content, the ability to send comments and pictures direct to the newsroom
- Blogs, analysis and commentary with the distinct BBC voice
- Video and audio content from the BBC News channel and other BBC sources
The BBC Sport app – due for release on the iPhone in May and yet again for Android and Blackberry later in the year, is to feature :
- Live text commentary with distinct BBC voice
- Listen live to Radio 5 Live commentary
- Receive up-to-the-minute scores and league information
- Participation: integration with 606, and the BBC sport blogs
- User-generated content, submission of comments via SMS
- Video and audio content: integration with Radio 5 Live, plus video clips (subject to rights availability)
- Personalisation: selection of your teams and clubs
The first version will focus on the World Cup 2010 but will be updated to support Formula 1 season and the 2010/2011 football season. Users will also be able to view video-on-demand clips of every goal scored of the World Cup 2010.
The BBC’s online content player , The iplayer (only available in the UK) also plans to come to a mobile application. Though their is already a good client app for the service known as Beebplayer (Free on the Android Market) which also offers watching previously broadcasted programs, live TV & radio – this will be an officially supported app.
Of-course, the app will be free of charge too, funded by a licence fee. Are you looking forward to the BBC app on Android?
[Via the BBC]
P.S Sky News has also Officially released their news app free on the Android Market which keeps you up to date with the latest news and also features a nice looking widget.
Beeb player is awesome but if an offical app comes with a higher quality video feed I’d be happy!
I can haz BBC App for F1 in the US?
I would love to have the ability back to download programmes to my mobile and play them back as I did with my N96 – fingers crossed! My broadband is fairly pants so streaming is nowhere near as good..
As long as there is a 2×1 news widget that DOESNT FC like the current one then I’ll be happy.
BBC news Android app by Jim Blackler is a decent one, but surely I look forward to the official version from BBC.
why can’t i find beebplayer on the market. moto droid in the US. is it spelled “beebplayer”? help i love bbc radio and i miss it. we can’t stream on teh network at work anymore. :(
Only UK residents can stream BBC, you need a proxy server to appear as a UK connection.
Hurry up world cup starts today
The only reason I bought this desire was to see the world cup at work I feel let down where is beebplayer ?
@david w
try yamgo.mobi or m.tvcatchup.com for streaming live bbc and itv
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