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just use the verizon MIFI 2200 mobile hotspot w/ the iphone/touch and you have sling 3g access..

May 13, 09 - 10:14 am Comment from: voiceeciov

I was looking forward to the Sling application for the iPhone since I have an hour commute to work via the train, however without the 3G capability, this app is useless. There is no way I will pay $30.00 for Wi-Fi only, when I can just as easily pull out my MacBook at a Wi-Fi hotspot, connect to my Slingbox and view it on a bigger screen.

The app is ruined. And more important than the app itself, it was another chance to contrast the usability of the iPhone with other smartphones when we saw how much better it worked in comparison to the crap on those platforms.

Instead we are the laughing stock and a major hole in the iPhone third party app system is once again exposed (that being the iron clad control Apple and the carriers possess over what we can have).

May 13, 09 - 12:08 pm Comment from: cogitoergomac

Okay. I actually. Ought the app be aide I have a lot of roaming Wi-Fi access. It is actually pretty well done. Worth $30? Maybe not yet. Worn the wait? Not yet. But if you read the entire review, you will see that the iPhone version is not all that different from many other smartphones, and that 3g performance in the pre-release app was not worth having.

May 13, 09 - 12:09 pm Comment from: cogitoergomac

Sorry. Bad thumbtyping and mistaken iPhone correction. "I actually bought the app."

May 13, 09 - 12:17 pm Comment from: alansky

Is it really such a huge deal to simply load videos on your iPod or iPhone before embarking on your daily commute? I really don't get this obsessive need to have everything instantly at one's fingertips. And if streaming insipid tv shows is going to bog down the whole network, I say "Who needs it?" What we really need is a decent mobile network, which nobody is offering in this country.

@ R2

Please remember that if they allowed this on the iPhone, AT&T;terrible 3G service would collapse. I live in SF and my service is getting worse each week. Too many iPhone users hogging up what little bandwidth AT&T;is providing. Adding slingbox to the mix would be disastrous. They can have it on other phones as they do not have the numbers to overwhelm the network.

Come on, alansky. The average sold iPhone has 8 gigabytes of memory. How much video can get fit on there between apps and music?

Streaming would be a perfect compromise to the limitations of Flash memory capacity.

And the process of putting videos on the iPhone isn't really all that great to begin with unless you're buying content strictly from iTunes, which can get rather expensive.

AT&T;cannot deliver access to bandwidth hogging apps - such as video streaming - due to video chat coming to the new iPhone. AT&T;simply needs this feature to work very well on the new iPhone, as Apple will be heavily toughing the technology.

As for the recent rumor of iPhone not containing OLED, faster processor and a front-facing camera for video chat, chalk this rumor up to a well timed and placed spot by Apple.

In one rumor Apple has pushed expectations low, so as to knock it out of the park at the WWDC.

I guess this bandwidth issue would put to rest a video ichat capability in the new iphone ... correct?