Full Length ABC Programs Now Available on Sprint TV

It’s becoming increasingly harder to come up with an excuse not to catch up on your favorite TV Shows. Sprint is now offering their wireless customers the ability to watch full-length episodes of ABC programs the day after they air, right on your Sprint phone. Shows that are currently available include Greys Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty and Lost. I tried it out for myself on the Sprint Upstage. Each episode is divided up in to different segments, most probaly so that loading time isn’t too long. I pulled up an episode of Ugly Getty and tried loading the first episode. It only took about 5 seconds before the episode started playing. The quality was not incredible, and such a small screen isn’t comfortable to stare at for long periods of time, but it was pretty good experience overall. Also, audio quality is a bit shaky though when listening on the phone’s speakers. Still, I prefer watching a full length TV show, or a segment of a TV show, rather than the normal Sprint TV offerings which until now have been just short edited clips that last at most a few minutes.

So, overall, having the ability to watch TV - real TV on my phone is a lot of fun. That combined with Sprint’s Music Store and the ability to preview and download music to my phone, makes the Upstage a great multimedia device. Well, almost great - the device has a lot going for it, except that I find the touch sensitive controls to be too sensitive and it makes navigating the phone a kind of miserable experience. And that is a shame because for a such a small phone it brings a lot of entertainment with it.