Sky has announced that its Sky Go app is available for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones.
Sky limits update to latest Samsung smartphones
It's been a long wait for users to be able to stream Sky content on Android smartphones running a version later than 2.3 Gingerbread. However, only three additional phones are compatible with the app, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note.
See also: Sky Go on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (FAQ)
Sky said: "We’re very pleased to be able to announce that earlier today we released an update delivering support for the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system on compatible Sky Go Android smartphones."
It's good news but in favour of Samsung owners, much to the dismay of Sky customers with other handsets such as the HTC One X.
There are other problems, too, as Nick P.G stated: "And as expected, HDMI output has been prevented." There's also the question of when Sky will update the app for the now latest version of Android, 4.1 Jelly Bean.
The news comes shortly after Sky launched its Now TV internet streaming service.
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Comments
St33l3ys said: Wen is the update for the jellybean gonna b ready i cant use sky go since i updated my phone
Rh74 said: If you really want decent sky go get an iPhone I cant blame them for having so many issues on android due to the shitload of different platforms
Weetko said: The picture quality used to be good on my galaxy S2 but since ics update and sky go 2 it stays blurry and not worth watchingsky need to get their act together
Adrian said: As ever 3 step forward and four backward with SkyGo Anyone else not notice the planned release of the Nexus 7 and updates rolling to Nexus HTC phones for 41 - looks very much like Sky failed to notice