BBC will start streaming live tv in the UK

Great news for all UK residents, the BBC has now started streaming live TV for n96 and the 5800.

First before you get too excited you should know that the resolution is only 176 x 144 and that’s almost half our screen size so there is plenty of room for development. Saying that not only do you get the standard bbc channels (bbc 1,bbc2 ect…) but you all so get all the free to view channels as well(bbc 3,bbc 4, itv 2,itv 3, sky 3 ect…).  The problem is that you will probably still need to connect to wifi to update channels and other information. It sounds like its the kind of thing that will only work when it wants too but unfortunately I am unable to test this service as my phone is getting fixed so it would be great if any UK users let us know there experiences with this.

To use this service you will either need to download this or you can visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/live/tv/ on your n96.

This is a big step up for n96 users since the DVB-H TV in the n96 is unused so it made it just like the n95 so personally I’m delighted with this and hope that more European countries avail of this.

Have you checked this post about the Nokia N86 8MP camera and video samples?