You may (or may not) have heard of Kinoma. They make Kinoma Play for Windows Mobile and Kinoma Player EX for Palm OS. It’s a media player, for music, video, photos, podcasts, YouTube, etc.

The recent update includes ORB support which is a Windows desktop application that streams your media (all media, not just music) from your desktop to your mobile device. So, you could stream a movie from your desktop to your Treo using ORB and Kinoma.

The cool thing is, Kinoma Player is now free for Palm OS.

No more need to sync your device to your desktop for loading music, photos, and video. Pretty cool. Check it out at Kinoma’s site.  Check out the ORB site too. Ooooo…ORB is also compatible with the big gaming consoles too, Xbox 360, Wii, and PS3.

So, some of you may have heard the name Kinoma before….but I suspect only Palm OS folks.  Well, Kinoma Play is a new mobile app for Windows Mobile, which looks to be a solid iPod Touch/iPhone media player competitor.  Kinoma Play is for use with music, video, photos, online services, RSS feeds, internet radio, podcats, Flickr, and on and on.

I am a Kinoma user on Palm OS, and it’s a decent app for video.  I use it for online video, YouTube, Google Video on my Treo 700p all the time.  Though, this time around, it looks like the guys at Kinoma have really made a solid complete media player for Windows Mobile.  With really nice animation, background playing, this looks to be quite nice for $30.

Deiter Bohn of WMExperts does a good review.

I think it will easily replace the default Windows Media Player and going to make Pocket Tunes shake in it’s shoes.

Check it out for yourself at http://kinoma.com/play/