Things really are happening at a breakneck, lightning quick pace for Apple’s iPhone just as Apple recently released the SDK for the iPhone. Just days after the bling-bling iPhone went gaming, the iPhone now gets on-demand news telecast podcasts, courtesy BBC. The BBC iPlayer is the first of it’s kind on any portable player and comes piggybacking on the just released SDK for the iPhone. What’s more, the iPhone’s little brother, the iPod touch also will get the BBC’s iPlayer as it shares the iPhone’s OS. The iPlayer will work over wifi, with the news feed coming straight from BBC’s website and No, the cell phone networks cannot transmit these newscast’s over their networks just as yet though BBC doesn’t rule it out in the future. The iPhone’s beautiful video quality has been the driving force over BBC choosing it over other mobile devices. That is one more brownie point for Apple’s amazing design. The iPlayer is very significant for the British news giant and the media as a whole because it signifies a radical departure from traditional media avenues and might just open up an all new trend in mobile-news broadcasting. The Mobile entertainment space is getting excitng by the day. And all you existing iPhone owners might want to check out BBC’s website for getting the iPlayer on your devices. Watch this space.
Source: about-electronics
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