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Listed below are comments made by andibeeb between Thursday, 9th October 2008 and Friday, 31st October 2008.

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BBC iPlayer & N95: Update 4:12pm on 31 Oct 2008 i've just installed iplayer onto my nokia n82 from www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer/iplayer.wgz.
it installs but will not work - the only option i have is to exit.
it appears the n95 does work (partially) with iplayer, but the n82 will not work at all
BBC iPlayer goes portable 11:30am on 10 Oct 2008 i recently posted this comment in a related bbc blog:

Is there some form of financial deal between Nokia and the BBC to restrict iPlayer to Nokias most expensive phones?

iPlayer works on the cheapest laptop/PC and on the iPod Touch which costs £170. However the software for Nokia is restricted to Nokias most expensive handsets. If you search the web it becomes clear that the iPlayer application can work on any N series phone . But Nokia/the BBC have deliberately coded it to exclude all but Nokias very expensive phones such as the N96.

I have an N82 which is less than half the price of the N96 - and it will run hacked versions of iPlayer (so I'm informed)

Why won't the BBC release this as an N Series application and unlock it. Has Nokia been able to demand these restrictions to force customers to buy their expensive phones.

I received this reply which led me here:

andibeeb - there's no fiendish plan - Anthony Rose has some detail about how decisions are made about which devices to put the iPlayer on here.

Nick Reynolds (editor, BBC Internet blog)

I understand the point being made, however iPlayer v 1.00 could be made to play on other N series phone by simply inserting the relevant phone name into the applications code.

If it was that easy to do (and that easy to subsequently block) then the issue must be more than compatability.
BBC iPlayer on Nokia N96 mobile phone 2:39pm on 09 Oct 2008 Is there some form of financial deal between Nokia and the BBC to restrict iPlayer to Nokias most expensive phones?

iPlayer works on the cheapest laptop/PC and on the iPod Touch which costs £170. However the software for Nokia is restricted to Nokias most expensive handsets. If you search the web it becomes clear that the iPlayer application can work on any N series phone . But Nokia/the BBC have deliberately coded it to exclude all but Nokias very expensive phones such as the N96.

I have an N82 which is less than half the price of the N96 - and it will run hacked versions of iPlayer (so I'm informed)

Why won’t the BBC release this as an N Series application and unlock it. Has Nokia been able to demand these restrictions to force customers to buy their expensive phones

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