Five, four, three, two give a cheer for SMU…Athletics and their release of a new mobile application compatible with iPhone and Android devices.

The official SMU Mustangs application, released Thursday, allows users to follow live news, scores, game play-by-plays, statistics, schedules, rosters and photo galleries for all of the SMU athletic teams for the 2011 to 2012 season.

An intuitive interface provides users quick mobile access to sports updates where they used to have to depend on computers or live broadcasting from a television or radio.

After downloading and launching the free application, it brings the user to the home screen where the user must select a sport to view.

Upon selecting a sport of interest, the interface provides headers at the top of the application including audio/video, headlines, games, SMU team and settings. The audio/video feature provides live game scoring from GameTracker, live scoring updates, play-by-play coverage and on-demand video. The headlines section keeps users up-to-date with any news coverage on the selected sport. “Games” offers users a complete schedule with scores.

The SMU team feature provides a full roster, photographs of the team and team and player statistics.

Finally, the settings feature allows users to subscribe and purchase extra features.

The settings feature also allows users to opt in to receiving push notifications from the application.

To access live audio broadcasting from the application, the user has to opt in for a monthly fee of $0.99 for iPhones and $4.99 per year for Android devices.

According to the reviews of this new application, which can be found in the App Store on iTunes, there are differing opinions on how people feel about this new application.

Cache$$$mustang said, “Crashes every time the game tracker updates and doesn’t offer audio/video, waste of programming.”

On the contrary, Keloggs thinks, “This is a great app! I recommend it to all my fellow Mustangs fans. Pony up!”