Pocket PC Thoughts: DivX Mobile Player 0.90 Released for Windows Mobile

"DivX Mobile Player 0.90 makes installation easier through signed packages, improves battery life with better power management, supports alternate screen orientations for the Motorola Q and Windows Mobile phones, and is now localized for Spanish and Portuguese. Windows Mobile 2003+ and Symbian OS 9+ downloads are available from the DivX Mobile Community homepage. Please note that you need to subscribe to the DivX Mobile Community group to access these downloads. Subscription is open and free."



I spent a few minutes playing around with this today and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed. The previous version of the DivX Mobile Player that we reported on was pretty buggy, slow, and severally distorted your screen layout on landscape devices such as the Motorola Q and the Samsung Blackjack upon exiting the application. From what I saw in the brief bit I time I spent playing with version 0.90, all of the problems have seemed to have disappeared and video playback on my Samsung Blackjack was speedy and showed no signs of lag what-so-ever. I have only had time to play around with the included demo videos but I will attempt to play some of my own DivX videos later tonight to see how far along this application has really come. For those curious to give this application a test drive you can download copies of both the Windows Mobile Professional and Standard version here.