British Sky Broadcasting (Sky) and Symbian Limited today announced that BSkyB selected Symbian OSâ„¢ for Sky by mobile, the interactive application which puts the UK’s leading digital TV service into the hands of millions of mobile phone users.
Sky by mobile, offers Sky digital and Sky Bet customers an value-added way to access Sky on the move at no extra cost. Once downloaded from Sky by mobile onto an appropriate 2.5G or 3G Symbian OS phone, users are presented with a viewing guide with the same look and feel as the Sky Guide, Sky’s electronic programme guide.
The application offers a range of TV content, including sports, entertainment, news and weather and provides access to a wide range of interactive services including personalised news, sports headlines and “on the fly” betting for Sky Bet account holders. In order to handle this large volume of real-time multimedia content in an effective way the application was developed using native C++ on Symbian OS.