While you can check your queue and add movies to it via your Android smart phone, Android users can’t stream content to their smartphones.
That will change early next year.
Netflix announced yesterday that it will begin offering an Android app to allow users to view streaming content on their phones.
“I’m happy to announce we’ll launch select Android devices that will instantly stream from Netflix early next year,” Greg Peters of Netflix product development wrote on the company’s blog. “We will also continue to work with the Android community, handset manufacturers, carriers, and other service providers to develop a standard, platform-wide solution that allows content providers to deliver their services to all Android-based devices.”
Netflix has previously announced that the application would hit the Android marketplace this month. But there were delays as the content provider ironed out issues related to the potential to pirate content on Android smart phones.
Those issues have apparently been resolved and we should see the application in early 2011.
I have been using Netflix for years, but knew there had to be more out there in the streaming market. I have recently switched to the Remote Access app that works with my DISH Network employee act. I can now stream live TV, on demand content, and all of my DVR recordings remotely. I absolutely love it, and would never switch back.