Comments on: How To: Get Our iPhone Podcasts Over the Air

By: George

George — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:52:16 +0000

Has anyone else got the problem that you can download apps and podcasts on edge and 3g but the music store says you need wi fi connection to even look at the names of songs

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:43:18 +0000

@Jason:

It's mentioned in our full review:

http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/11/21/review-iphone-os-22-software/

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:29:09 +0000

@Rey Actually, you can stream podcasts over 3G (and presumably over EDGE as well). You only need to use WiFi if you want to download the 10+MB podcast episode. If you want to stream it, just tap the title of the episode, rather "FREE" button. Streams just like a YouTube video does.

(I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned in the article.)

By: David

David — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:08:42 +0000

I agree, where is the subscription? Honestly, this is almost useless without that. I certainly don't want to have to remember to manually download all of my podcasts and wait while each of them downloads.

Sux.

By: Rey

Rey — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:58:30 +0000

I wish there was an option to have it available over 3g (for those with Unlimited data). There are YouTube videos that are around 7mb are there not? Those are streamable over 3g, so why not Podcasts

By: Jeremy Sikora

Jeremy Sikora — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:37:10 +0000

Sadly I don't think a subscription is possible, I thought the same thing. Would be super cool. Then Apple is taking away from iTunes then.

By: Christopher Vitek

Christopher Vitek — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:34:39 +0000

Next up should be a way to subscribe to them for automatic download! (Unless you can do that and I missed it somehow)