{"id":887,"date":"2007-03-28T15:16:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T14:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/sling-comes-to-palm\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:57:32","slug":"sling-comes-to-palm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/sling-comes-to-palm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sling comes to Palm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"sling-media-icon-1.png\" id=\"image886\" title=\"sling-media-icon-1.png\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/03\/sling-media-icon-1.png\" \/>Last year, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-3513_22-6065542.html\">word on the street<\/a> was that Palm seemed to be losing ground to its competitiors when it came to bleeding-edge multimedia applications. Remote TV viewing app, Sling, wasn&#8217;t realeased on Palm initially and it looked like its developers, along with other big firms, were abandoning Palm despite its large user base.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Slingmedia did something to dismiss fears of Palm&#8217;s total demise by finally <a href=\"http:\/\/us.slingmedia.com\/object\/KB-005321\">releasing the public beta<\/a> of their Palm client, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2007\/01\/08\/sling-adds-palm-treo-support\">confirmed<\/a> at CES in January. Designed to run on the popular Treo 700p, Sling for Palm includes the same features as the Windows Mobile edition, released last year. Performance is pretty good: averaging at 15 frames per second and 150kbs bitrate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uneasysilence.com\/archive\/2007\/03\/10041\/\">Chris at Uneasy Silence<\/a> probably has the best insight into the client, having been testing the private beta for several weeks. He&#8217;s done a nice walkthrough with a video showing the client working on his Treo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the word on the street was that Palm seemed to be losing ground to its competitiors when it came to bleeding-edge multimedia applications. Remote TV viewing app, Sling, wasn&#8217;t realeased on Palm initially and it looked like its developers, along with other big firms, were abandoning Palm despite its large user base. Yesterday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/sling-comes-to-palm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sling comes to Palm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337806,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/337806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}