We know others are hard at work on their own TV streaming services for the iPhone, but Orb’s just gone official, with its own app for the handset finally getting the thumbs up from Apple.
We’ve heard direct from Orb’s CEO Joe Costello that the app is now official. “We released a version of OrbLive in May, but this was before the Apple SDK and App store. You had to Jailbreak your iPhone to use it, but we still got 300,000 downloads,” he explained.
“Now it is ready for prime time — all the capability and blessed by Apple.”
The system’s remarkably simple. You install a small piece of software on your Mac or PC, and then tap into it from your iPhone wherever you are. It means all the media on your computer is instantly available, as well as live TV from any tuners you have installed.
Orb handles all the compression and file conversion on your home computer, so the iPhone doesn’t break a sweat trying to handle bulky files.
As well as dishing up live TV, radio and webcam feeds, it means the end of syncing your iPhone to tap into your media, since it’s all available over the network.
Best of all, Orb is free, dishing up the potential to have terabytes of data available through your iPhone!
Download it direct from the App Store, and check out Orb’s website for more information.
Out now | £free | Orb
Sweet! I know the G1 lacks the applications but is it technically capable of handling playing movies, TV (iplayer) etc like the iphone should the software arrive?
Yeah, the G1 is technically capable. In fact, Adobe have shown it displaying full-blown Flash, so it should handle the iPlayer, no sweat!