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With your iPhone, doing many tasks on-the-go is quite possible, however, catching up on TV shows you saved with your Slingbox player or DVR is not so possible.  Today, Apple has finally approved the SlingPlayer Mobile app which can stream your TV shows from your device at home, for $30. 

Now, while all this sounds good, there are a few drawbacks.  The major drawback being the fact that the app will only work when connected to a Wi-Fi network.  AT&T imposed this restriction to Apple and on the SlingPlayer app probably because they do not want people eating up the 3G service with large streams.  If the app only works when connected via Wi-Fi, then AT&T doesn’t have to worry about their 3G servers getting overloaded.  In addition, $30 is a tad unreasonable, especially considering you can’t use the app all the time.  The same type of app has been available for BlackBerry phones since December as a beta app, and since March as a 1.0 release. 

For iPhone owners who have a Slingbox, $30 bucks lying around, and usually in range of a Wi-Fi connection, you will probably be happy with the opportunity to use this app.  For the rest of us, it is probably an app we would like to have, but not worth it at this point due to inefficiency/price.  Expect it to drop in the App store within the next day or so.

Via [BGR]