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Old 07-31-2008, 01:57 AM
Scott
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Default Re: You CAN get NPR on your iPhone

4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> amazed us all with the following in
news:cd8d7cad-3501-4a35-973f-5d0a5ba8ba84@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

> On Jul 30, 7:37*pm, Scott <how...@you.do> wrote:
>> 4phun <vic.hea...@gmail.com> amazed us all with the following
>> innews:c3ec

> 772a-65fb-4d8c-98c3-5d7d1a7abb16@f36...oglegroups.com:
>>
>> > You CAN get NPR on your iPhone

>>
>> > npr.org —

>>
>> > While there is no NPR app, just point your iPhone or other device
>> > to m.npr.org , and start streaming.

>>
>> >http://digg.com/apple/You_CAN_get_NPR_on_your_iPhone

>>
>> > They can not ignore that most their mobile audience probably is
>> > using an iPhone so they just made that for us. You can even get
>> > your local broadcasts from NPR once inside the NPR/iPhone mobile
>> > pages.

>>
>> > Vic

>>
>> So, which is it? *Is it, "just point your iPhone or other device" or
>> is

> it, *
>> "They can not ignore that most their mobile audience probably is
>> using an iPhone so they just made that for us?"
>>
>> No need to contradict the troll when he contradicts himself.

>
> The actual iPhone link on NPR?
> Try it without an iPhone, the page displays but you don't get an audio
> option.
> Try it with you PC web browser same thing.


Or maybe I could use the existing links for a Blackberry, AT&T or Sprint
phone.

Looks like yet another case of the iPhone struggling to catch up with
the rest of the real world.

>
> The actual iPhone link from the m/npr is unique for the iPhone and
> delivers the audio to the iPhone.


Unique how?

> Then you can play a game or whatever
> while listening to NPR. If a phone call comes in NPR fades and
> resumes when the call is over.


You mean just like I did on my Blackberry?

>
> Like all the software for the iPhone I think it is pretty neat for
> real world use.
>
> It isn't like the winmo crash prone sluggish crap I had pre iPhone.
>
>


I've had a few WinMo phones- never had a problem with a single one of
them. Sounds like the technology might be a little above your head.
You're better off with idiotware like the iPhone.



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