
If you are an earlier adopter of CorePlayer, and wondering if you'll ever see a product better than the free TCPMP program, your wait might be short. Or it might be long. But one step forward will occur on May 14, when the CorePlayer Mobile Version 1.1 will
be released. Whether it lives up to our expectations of a significant improvement seems to still be up in the air.
According to the CoreCodec forums, "We will be releasing one platform at a time starting on May 14th starting with various CE versions then Palm and finally the Symbian platforms. Before the Symbian freaks start... I want to state it now that we do not expect to launch Symbian on launch day but will likely wait a few days to see what bug reports are coming in from."
The improvements include:
* CoreTheque database - The future value of this is still somewhat unknown as not much has been revealed. But it will support CUE files, RSS feeds and Web 2.0 tagging
* Bug fixes, device support additions and stability - Always a plus.
"Live updates" will not be available until version 1.4.