Well, it looks like Droid does streaming video now, as Verizon Wireless is bringing its V Cast Video service to its Android phones.
The service brings live and recorded videos to your handsets over mobile data networks or via WiFi. Verizon’s service costs $10 a month, which may be a bit pricey for you depending on how much you value this type of service.
What type of content do you get? Well, there’s multiple studio shows you’d expect as well as live events.
Univision Interactive Media will provide live streams of all 64 of its Spanish-language broadcasts of the 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer matches from South Africa exclusively to V CAST Video customers’ mobile devices. The soccer tournament is just one of hundreds of live sporting events – including college football, college basketball and NHL Hockey – available on V CAST Video throughout the year.
The service is now available on the Motorola Droid, the HTC Droid Eris, Droid Incredible, and the Devour. This could just be the tip of the spear for Verizon, as the company is planning to turn its V Cast services into an app store of sorts, which can push carrier-branded programs as well as open up another distribution channel for developers.
Even if you’re not that excited about V Cast itself, this is another sign that Android is becoming a better multimedia player. This is important because the little green robot’s main competitor, the iPhone, has excellent multimedia capabilities. The stock music and movie player on Android is still pretty weak, but we’re seeing some intriguing options from third parties.
HTC’s Sense UI layers a lot of visual panache on top of the standard music player and I’ve found it to be more useful than most media players on the platform. DoubleTwist just released an on-deck media player to go along with its desktop-syncing client and I’m still quite a fan of TuneWiki.
How say you, readers? What’s your favorite Android multimedia player?
[Via Verizon Wireless]