BBC Online to offer new mobile applications
Feb 21, 2010 news, phones, services
The BBC today announced that it is to offer a new kitchen range of applications that volition deliver BBC Online services to a kitchen range of mobile devices. At a tonic language at Mobile River World United States Congress, BBC Director of Future Media &ere; Technology Erik Huggers said that the BBC is planning to liberation mobile applications for BBC News and BBC Sport on a wide kitchen range of smartphones, start with a BBC News application for iPhone in Apr 2010. The app will direction on providing quick access to the BBC’s existing journalistic content, which will be repurposed for the devices. All applications volition be available free of mission.
Erik Huggers said: “It’s been 12 days since the launching of BBC Online, but as media converges and technology accelerates, licence fee payers ar increasingly exploitation sophisticated handheld devices to access information. They tell us that they want to access the digital services that they have paid for at a meter and situation that suits them.
The first app to launch volition be BBC News, it volition provide the same distinctive content already available on the website, such as features and psychoanalysis, reports from BBC correspondents around the earth and a wide range of live and on-demand audio and video subject.
The newsworthiness diligence, which volition be available in early Apr, will give users tractability in how they personalise their news experience. Thomas More features will be added throughout the year. The newsworthiness app will initially be available on iPhone and iPod Touch devices and follow by Blackberry / Android smartphone later in the year.
BBC News Application
Expected liberation date: April 2010 (UK and Rest of World).
Both the UK and global applications volition be available free people of charge (though meshing information charges may apply). In line with other international BBC Worldwide services, the global edition created and released by BBC Worldwide (handiness dependant on market aspirations) volition be supported by publicizing.
Key features:
* Breaking news, updated throughout the mean solar day * Personalisation, the ability to create a personal news experience * User-generated subject, the ability to send comments and pictures direct to the newsroom * Blogs, psychoanalysis and commentary with the distinct BBC part * Video and audio content from the BBC News channel and other BBC sources
BBC Sport Application
Expected release appointment: May 2010 (UK and Rest of World).
The first version volition direction on World Cup 2010, but volition be updated throughout the class to documentation major sports, such as the Formula 1 time of year and the 2010/2011 English language football game time of year. Both the UK and global applications will be available free people of charge, though information charges whitethorn apply. The global version volition be released separately by BBC Worldwide and, in job with other international BBC Worldwide services, volition lineament publicizing.
Key features:
* Live textual matter 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 athletics blogs * User-generated content, submission of comments via SMS * Video and audio subject: integration with Radio 5 Live, plus video recording clips (content to rights handiness) * Personalisation: pick of your teams and clubs
BBC iPlayer Application
BBC iPlayer has been a huge success in the UK since its launch in Dec 2007 and is now averaging more than 20 meg requests for TV and wireless programmes per workweek across all chopine. The vane-based BBC iPlayer has already been optimised for a wide kitchen range of smartphones (accessed through a mobile browser). A BBC iPlayer mobile application has also been available in Nokia’s Ovi app store since Q3 2009.
Francis Scott Key features:
* Live TV and wireless * Improved user experience: enhanced port using the latest app gestures and transitions * New personalisation features
[via Android Community]
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