If you own a feature phone capable of achieving a 3G data connection via your cell provider, you might be excited to learn that SPB Software has just made their popular SPB TV application available as a WAP portal.  Previously only available as an application for smartphones, SPB TV is a great way to watch internet based TV.

You can get an idea what SPB TV is all about via our Quick Look at SPB TV 2 for Windows Mobile.  Check it out here.

The press release is available in full below:

July 22^nd, 2010 – SPB Software, a leading mobile software developer, announces the release of the WAP version of its flagship mobile solution SPB TV.

SPB TV is already available on iPhone, Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and WebOS smartphones. SPB Software now extends the mobile TV solution to feature phone users, offering 3G customers a free mobile IP TV solution with the state-of-the-art TV-like user experience. Mobile phone owners, no matter where they are, can now get easy and instant access to over a 150 subscription-free TV channels from more than 20 countries, using SPB TV on their phones.

SPB TV has been successfully deployed by several mobile operators, including Singaporean mobile operator StarHub and Russian operators SkyLink and MTS. SPB TV has already reached the one million user milestone. It features exclusive and patent-pending usability innovations and provides mobile users with must-have TV features, such as a TV browser with quick channel-launching and channel-switching, a TV guide for all offered channels and more.

SPB TV has received several prestigious awards, including the winners award in the media category of the Google Android Developer Challenge and the Nokia Must-Have Entertainment App 2009 award among many others. Moreover, the iPhone version ranked as the number one most downloaded app in the ‘free apps’ category, merely two days after its launch in Singapore. Our Windows Mobile version is also the most popular TV application on Microsoft Marketplace.

“With the launch of WAP version of SPB TV we have now a unique offer for mobile operators: the mobile TV solution that covers all possible mobile devices with 3G support”, – comments SPB CEO Sebastian-Justus Schmidt.

SPB TV WAP Version Main Features:

• A wide selection of public TV channels
• Integrated TV Guide with the list of current and upcoming TV-shows
• Unique browser with fast channels launch and switching
• Video on Demand
• Video Quality Switcher

Pricing and Availability

You can watch SPB WAP TV for free at http://tv.spb.com, there is no monthly fee for using it.

Further Information

SPB TV WAP version page
SPB TV for Windows Mobile web page
SPB TV for Symbian page
SPB TV for iPhone downloading page
SPB TV for Android web page
SPB TV for Blackberry web page
StarHub Case study

About SPB Software (www.spb.com)

SPB is a leading brand in mobile software, standing for a unique line of popular consumer products and partnerships with the world’s most innovative handset makers and wireless carriers. SPB’s software solutions deliver richer smartphone experiences and enable subscribers to do more with their mobile data connections. SPB Software is the maker of the world’s single number one bestselling mobile application – SPB Mobile Shell. For more information, please visit www.spb.com.

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