Bell to release TV app for webOS 18
Wed, 09 Dec 2009 2:59 pm EST 
While Sprint webOS users have long been blessed with all sorts of network-specific fancy apps like Sprint TV and Sprint Navigation, our friends up in Canada have been languishing in a land of TV-less Pre phones. No longer, say the folks at Mobile Syrup, who have caught wind of a new Bell-specific app on the way: Bell TV (or Vu!, we’re not sure).
Unlike Sprint’s app, Bell TV will be an extension of Bell’s current Pay-per-Vu! movie and television service. As such, it requires that you already be a subscriber to Bell’s TV service, and as you might expect it is a pay-per-view system and will charge your account for every show you watch. It’s better than nothing, and nobody’s going to gripe about having to pay for movies.
We’re told to expect Bell TV (or Vu!) in the App Catalog on December 11th, otherwise known as this Friday.
[via: The MX Web]
18 Comments
pay for movie, fine! but pay for tv shows? seriously?
we don't have navigation(officially), tv, amazon mp3.... and we need to sign a three year contract....
these companies indeed need a lot more competitions than they have now.
Curious, what is the un-official navigation for those of us on Bell?
Wow, I though the Sprint TV 10 to 15 minute segments were annoying but being charged per eps and movie? Just Ouch...
Sprint's basic plan TV offering is paltry. To add insult to injury, your buy-in for more highly desirable channels is too steep to justify for most people. I would love for a single channel to be $1, maybe $2 a month. You can choose which channels you want and bundle them up, almost like an app.
In any event, sprint can do much better with the tv offering it is a disingenuous selling point.
Oh streaming videos will go well with their limited data plans.
My thought exactly. They already get screwed paying
by the meg. Wonder how they'll manage a 50-100 meg
streaming show or movie.
Here in the UK we may have no paid apps, a non-functioning Google Maps and apparently nobody bothered to knock up any native homebrews, but we do have unlimited downloading at the core of our contracts.
Hopefully one day we'll be able to make best use of it...
Given that Spint TV is mostly pathetic list of limited preview videos, Bell customers really aren't missing anything.
Hopefully, when we finally get Flash for webOS we will have many more options for TV and Movies. Unfortunately mostly streaming though.
Agreed! I laugh at the commercials when they mention TV shows on Sprint. What a joke. Even the NFL Network is a joke for watching the Thursday night games. I get to watch a few seconds, then it buffers...screen turns off. Click Reload to get the video back. Repeat. Beyond pointless. I know they're not trying to replace the TV, but come on, they could at least make their network fast enough to handle it.
I stopped paying any attention to Sprint TV once they ended their contract with Comcast and lost half of their channels. And we can probably say goodbye to any NBC content in the near future. Although, I now let my daughter watch the Disney Channel when we're in the car and she gets upset. Saved my peace of mind a few times already.
I'm on Bell, and did manage to get an Unlimited data plan (student plan, no longer available now), but I still can't say this interests me. I can't even watch a youtube video without my Pre freezing up and restarting.
I like the idea of these apps, but unless they're actually usable, no thanks.
I've been frustrated with my Pre today, so a bit of venting...
I'm on bell. Not gonna pay for tv. Just wait til we get flash, plenty of streaming content out there, including all the free, live tv you can handle.you just need to look around a little bit.
I think i am done with the pre! Still no paid apps and the exchange has never work that well. This sucks because i do like functionality of the phone. But wtf the iphone come to bell with its app store. Come next July i think i am iphone bound. I am going to have to eat some crow. Come on palm change my mind please!!!!
well 7:30am still not available via app catalog in ontario.
almost noon! No app yet!
I just downloaded the app, it is order on phone, VIEW at HOME! How lame is that? NOT even CLOSE to what you say in your article, Maybe you should get your facts straight BEFORE you publish something?
Exacly, this app is the useless app I've seen, you have to sign in to order a movie that is not played on the pre. Are people really looking for adding more steps to an already simple pay per vu order system? I want tv on the pre like our friends south of the border.
yes, very lame. Not even downloading. This is what happens when there is so little competition.