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fstream didn't work very reliably for me at all... am going to try wunder radio
Hmm.. always been fine for me, mind you I tend to just use iPlayer when I'm on wi-fi anyway.
GrahamS:£3.99? I use fStream which is basic, but free.
True, but it was the first one i found on the app store and only demo'ing it at the mo. Interface is a bit shoddy but so far been playing Radio4 and 6Music fine over WiFi. Going to test it over 3G in a bit.
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Ooh it is a fair bit prettier than fStream 🙂
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I have that app above "WunderRadio" works a treat on a 3G signal although you will suffer the occasional drop for a few secs. I walked home on Friday from the office (45mins walk) and had an uninterupted signal of Radio4 all the way home.
Having not had a new phone for about 3 years (been sat on a sim-only deal for the past 18 months) I've decided to give a refurb 3g a go. Will be here for the weekend and I can play for two weeks before deciding to keep it or not.
Until now I've been on WM6 and used the tethering option quite a bit, now it seems the iPhone can be tethered (although not completely legally but that was the also the case with WM6 on T-Mob and O2) it ticks the boxes.
UI has always been brilliant IMO.
Actually the iPhone CAN be tethered completely legally - it's just that O2, in their infinite wisdom, don't include the tethered data as part of that nice "Unlimited 3G Data" package, but instead charge you £15 a month for it. Gits.
http://shop.o2.co.uk/update/internet.html
The app I use for radio is iCarRadio. It seems to handle the bitrate well, which OoTunes doesn't terribly well, although it has a very much wider range of stations available. One thing I've discovered with the 3G phone is available memory affects buffering significantly. I use FreeMemory first, then start up iCarRadio, which means it buffers quickly with minimum drop-outs. OoTunes is great for stations like CBC Radio3, which plays Canadian indy bands, with a 58kb bitrate. 6Music runs at 128kb, which is much cleaner, but OoTunes doesn't seem to handle well. I've tried WunderRadio, but it just doesn't seem to run over Edge networks like iCarRadio does.
'Cloud' is just a term for ubiquitous wireless Internet access using free wifi hotspots or coverage across a whole town. 'The Cloud' is a commercial name for a wifi hot-spot provider, like BT Openzone or BT Fon. There's some interesting stuff about the amount of money being made from Android App sales compared to iPhone App Store sales on MacRumors. Very enlightening.
See now all this talk about tethering and the like has really lost me and make me wonder what the HECK you are talking about!?? help....
Tethering is just using your mobile to provide an Internet connection for your computer so for example you could surf on your laptop while out and about. If you don't do that then ignore it.
Everyone else calls it 'using your phone as a modem' Munge 🙂
I call it Tethering as it makes me sound cool....erm...doesn't it? 😉
Incidentally i use [url= http://www.junefabrics.com/iphone/index.php ]PDAnet[/url] if want to use the iPhone as a modem. Works very nicely with the MBP. Jailbreak needed tho.
Actually the iPhone CAN be tethered completely legally - it's just that O2, in their infinite wisdom, don't include the tethered data as part of that nice "Unlimited 3G Data" package, but instead charge you £15 a month for it. Gits.
See what you mean - yep tethering is not illegal, but frankly I think that data is data so being charged twice for the same thing is just wrong. Anyway I've been [responsibly] tethering for a couple of years now and never had an issue so I'm not going to start paying now 🙂
..think that data is data so being charged twice for the same thing is just wrong
Completely agree. Thought it was cheeky as **** when they announced it. Ridiculous that O2 are allowed to advertise "Unlimited Internet Data" and then charge extra for tethered data.
Okay think I'm with you! So if I wanted to just surf internet all day on the phone then it's included in the price plan??
Yes
Cool it's sounding ever more attractive 😆
update on the radio thing - installed WunderRadio last night - it is a wonder, it's brilliant. Far better performance than FStream. No dropouts at all yet, listened to a few hours worth, very good quality streams too. super impressed!
Sweet, might give it a try then.
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It's a live multiplayer cross between Texas Hold'Em and Scrabble/Boggle.