I am a big fan of the iPhone tvcatchup web app, so much so that I hit the legendary *unlimited* limit on my o2 contract recently. I spent a little too much time using it with my 3G connection.
I thought I’d try to access the same site on my Palm Pre. I went to http://iphone.tvcatchup.com on the Palm Pre and found that I can get to the main page. If I attempt the same thing on the HTC Hero I get a ‘your handset not supported/iPhone only’ type message appear.
The issue I have is when I try to load a channel, it downloads a file (presumably a stub file from which to initiate streaming), the Palm Pre does not appear to have a media player that can handle the stream.
It seems to me that the Pre is half way there to playing live streamed TV channels right now, any Palm Pre geeks out there know of a work around to get the device to get across the finish line?
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And the month of November is at an end. I ultimately felt that I ran a little short of ideas to post every single day, but it was good to have the opportunity to push myself to share more self generated content. I now feel I have momentum to try more things out like the soon to be launched “I’ve seen it” blog.
I have a lot of friends who’s contracts are comin up and are facing the similar question, whether to get an iPhone on contract or not. Everytine I hear this I always advise them to not do it. Not because I have anything against the iPhone 3GS (I have one myself). It’s because they’d be tying themselves down with 18-24 month contacst in Nov’09 when the next version o the iPhone will land June/July 2010 (judging on past track record of a device a year for the last 3 years!)
There was a huge backlash from 3G owners when the iPhone 3GS was released, they were only 1 year into a 18/24 month contract and were not offered subsidies to move to the new iPhone. This was not the fault of o2, it was the release cycle of Apple. To subsidize the older device meant offering longer contracts.
Bearing this in mind, I got an iPhone 3GS on PAYG the day it was released. I did his in order to not be locked in when the newer iPhone comes out. If I was wanting a new iPhone right now, I would certainly wait for the day of a new release rather than lock myself in with an ultimately older device.
On Wednesday 25th I was at the Topsee iPhone app launch party by lastminute labs. I have included a short video which I filmed on my Flip Mino HD of a few of the opening speeches from the kickoff of the event.
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