DMWMedia is reporting that Slingmedia is putting together an application that lets iPhone users stream their home TV channels to the device over a Wi-Fi connection. The application reportedly only supports WiFi only and not 3G. Apparently Apple and network partner AT&T disabled the application to stream video over a 3G connection fearing that it’ll take over the bandwidth. The same application is available for Blackberry and Motorola Q and is not blocked with 3G usage.

Now Apple 3G iPhone has been out for some time, and features quite a broad range of applications. iPhone 3G has its cult followers, but several people have been cautious in adapting (in fact it has score of 7.7/10 on Testfreaks). May be limitations posed by such applications has something to do with it? I also read somewhere a while ago that AT&T plans on charging more to iPhone users as they use up most of the data bandwidth. So that may cause people to further consider other platforms. With Palm Pre coming in the picture which promises a tough fight. It’ll be intersting to see what Apple comes up with next and how they deal with the data usage issues.