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Fox Mobile Offers TV Smartphone Service

  • GigaOm, Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:15 PM
Fox Mobile is hoping it can convince consumers to watch TV on their smartphones. The News Corp. subsidiary has unveiled Bitbop, a subscription service for smartphone owners that will deliver both streaming and downloadable movies and TV programs to smartphone users.

The app will be free to download when it launches on an unspecified date in the next several weeks, but the app itself will only offer sneak previews -- full content will cost $10 monthly over 3G and Wi-Fi connections. Bitbop will work on devices such as the iPhone, Droid and several BlackBerry models at launch, with more handsets on the way. Fox, NBC Universal and Discovery will provide content, along with other yet-to-be-announced partners, and some movies will incur a yet-to-be-determined charge beyond the monthly subscription fee.

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