It's Major League Baseball's opening day, and the league is launching a bunch of cool updates to its excellent mobile apps.
The most exciting is a free month of live, out-of-market streaming game telecasts on the iPad and iPhone, sponsored by Volvo. This is basically a free trial of the MLB.TV service that provides these live game streams year-round.
There's also a new "Gameday" design -- the virtual play-by-play graphics if you aren't watching a live telecast -- which uses screenshots from an MLB baseball game for the Playstation.
And this is the first year MLB will be streaming live video to some Android phones, using Flash.
Here's the current list of Android phones that MLB will offer live streaming for:
Sprint HTC Evo, Verizon HTC Droid Incredible, Verizon Motorola Droid X, Verizon Motorola Droid, Verizon Motorola Droid 2, Verizon Motorola Droid Pro, Verizon HTC Thunderbolt, VZW Samsung Galaxy Tab, HTC Nexus One, T-Mobile Samsung Nexus S, T-Mobile HTC Glacier (myTouch 4G). Minimum OS 2.2 and Installed Flash
Here's MLB's full list of Opening Day updates:
At Bat 11 for iPad
· Watch every out-of-market game during April with a free MLB.TV trial presented by Volvo (NEW)
· Enhanced, re-designed Gameday pitch-by-pitch features, including realistic ballpark renderings from all 30 MLB parks in partnership with MLB® 11: The Show™, available exclusively on PlayStation® (NEW)
· See key plays and pivotal moments from every game with Live Looks-Ins, blackout free (NEW)
· Archived games to watch every game from 2011 on-demand (NEW)
· MLB.TV subscription access to watch live out-of-market games all season
· Home and away radio broadcasts
· In-progress video highlights
· Condensed Games
· Breaking news, standings, schedules, rosters and statistics
At Bat 11 for iPhone, iPod touch
· Watch every out-of-market game during April with a free MLB.TV trial presented by Volvo (NEW)
· See key plays and pivotal moments from every game with Live Looks-Ins, blackout free (NEW)
· Archived games to watch every game from 2011 on-demand (NEW)
· At The Ballpark with check-in, interactive venue maps, expanded video highlights, my profile, social media with Twitter and Facebook, exclusive offers and rewards and more (NEW)
· Customizable home screen to feature a designated favorite team (NEW)
· MLB.TV subscription access to watch live out-of-market games all season
· Home and away radio broadcasts
· In-progress video highlights
· Condensed Games and video library archive, searchable by team and player
· Breaking news, standings, schedules, rosters and statistics
· Customizable push notifications for game start and end and video highlight availability
At Bat 11 for Android
· MLB.TV subscription access to watch live out-of-market games (NEW)*
· At Bat.tv Free Game of the Day to watch one live out-of-market game free every day (NEW)*
· See key plays/pivotal moments from every game with Live Look-Ins, blackout free (NEW)*
· At The Ballpark with check-in, expanded video highlights, my profile, social media with Facebook, exclusive offers and rewards and more (NEW)
· Customizable home screen to feature a designated favorite team (NEW)
· Favorite team icon launcher widget for one-click access to a team’s homepage (NEW)
· MLB.com widget for one-click access to a live league-wide scoreboard (NEW)
· In-progress video highlights
· Home and away radio broadcasts
· Gameday pitch-by-pitch tracker
· Video library archive, searchable by team and player
· Breaking news, standings, schedules, rosters and statistics
* Technical requirements for live video on Android: To access live video, the minimum OS is 2.2, supporting Flash with at least an ARMv7 processor. Note that not all 2.2 devices support Flash and users may experience other unexpected device constraints.
At Bat 11 for BlackBerry
· Home and away radio broadcasts
· In-progress video highlights
· Gameday pitch-by-pitch tracker
· Customizable push notifications for game start and end and video highlight availability
· Breaking news, standings, schedules, rosters and statistics
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