Is live BBC TV coming to the iPhone?
I saw on All About Symbian yesterday morning that you can now stream live TV over wi-fi to certain phones (Nokia N96 and 5800) via the BBC mobile site. Although it’s low quality, this is pretty cool. I tried it on my iPhone, but no luck. It appears that Realplayer streams are being used, which rules out access via the iPhone at the moment.
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Welcome to the new All About iPhone
The new site has been in development for a few weeks. I wanted to bring you a fresher look, with more focus on the writing, and easier access to the popular posts and comments. There will undoubtedly be a few tweaks required to the new layout; if you notice anything awry, please contact me.
It also highlights the ways in which you can keep up to date with AAi – via RSS, email, and my Twitter updates.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the writers so far – Steve, James, Jim, Andy, Gideon, Jane and Adam. Your contributions are very much appreciated. Thanks to Jim for the CSS tweaks and Matlock for the new logo. And thanks also to you, the readers, for sticking around. I hope you enjoy what you see here.
Best wishes, and thanks for reading,
Matt
App Review: iEscape
Even the most hard nosed business type appreciates a good iPhone game to help while away a spare five minutes. Car journeys, plane trips and even tedious meetings can all be made more bearable with the right type of entertainment. iEscape is a puzzler from developer Yves Bresson that, while impressive in most ways, has a couple of small niggles that takes the edge off the fun.
Nothing’s worse than a really bad day
OK, so maybe I got out of bed on the wrong side this morning. Or maybe it was the chocolate cake that my daughter upended onto the kitchen carpet. Or maybe it was the frustration of wading through another couple of hundred applications, new in the iPhone App Store since yesterday. Either way, it’s been a bad day.
Of the 20,000 applications in the store, I can honestly say, hand on heart, that only around two to three hundred are actually any good at all. Add the same number again which are so niche that only a dozen people across the world might want them and you are left with over 19,000 apps which are completely and utterly pointless. Or rubbish. Or both.
But one app caught my eye today: Nothing.
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