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jTreu
Jul 24, 2008, 07:01 PM
Any apps in the store that can do this? I know that mobilecast can on the jailbroken phone but id rather not jailbreak again.



powpow
Jul 24, 2008, 09:29 PM
bump

eplchamps0304
Jul 24, 2008, 11:58 PM
Its the lack of simple functions such as this that piss me off about the iphone. A great device with trimmed down functions. You should be able to click on a podcast link online and download it straight to the phone.

bndoarn
Jul 25, 2008, 12:02 AM
Its the lack of simple functions such as this that piss me off about the iphone. A great device with trimmed down functions. You should be able to click on a podcast link online and download it straight to the phone.

agreed, i sent apple a feature request in their feedback section a while back requesting this

musicpenguy
Jul 25, 2008, 12:22 AM
Check out MobileCast on the Google Code page and then the blog - it is on its way to the AppStore given Apple approves it!!!!!

sunfast
Jul 25, 2008, 04:45 AM
In that you can download from the iTunes store, you should totally be able to get podcast subscribed to through iTunes.

7on
Jul 25, 2008, 07:27 AM
Mediafly.com works for me. You basically login and give all the rss data and then you can watch it on the iPhone. Shows up as a QT link you can click on. Very nice, though there's no iPhone interface - so you'll have to zoom in a lot to see a lot of the text.

SlapMonkey
Jul 25, 2008, 08:50 AM
Check out MobileCast on the Google Code page and then the blog - it is on its way to the AppStore given Apple approves it!!!!!

hmm, according to their blog:

As it stands you’ll need to jailbreak the 2.0 firmware to use mobilecast. I haven’t looked into it much yet, but I doubt we’ll be able to offer mobilecast (in its current form) via the app store as we use a lot of undocumented api’s that are not part of the official SDK.
I don’t know how strict apple will be about the use of undocumented api’s, so it might be worth giving it a shot and submitting mobilecast as an official app.
Given that the MC source is open source I think we’ll continue to offer the app for free even if its accepted into the apple app store.