The iPad 3G model may not be shipping for a while yet, but it’s now got a bonus extra feature worth waiting for: the Air Video iPhone app, one of the cheapest and easiest ways to sling video to your iPhone anywhere is set to get a native iPad app version too.
While there are plenty of apps that let you access video on your computer or home server from your iPhone, the Air Video iPhone app is one of the most favourably reviewed. It works by converting video to the right format in realtime, so you don’t have to do any time consuming encoding in Handbrake, but now the developer has confirmed an iPad version is on the way, with support for the sharper native resolution.
iPad 3G and Wi-Fi models delayed
If the iPad version of Air Video packs the same features as the iPhone version, out now, iPad 3G owners should get excited: one of the experimental features lets you sling that video over a 3G network as well as Wi-Fi.
In otherwords, if you’ve got an iPad 3G version, you can download or rip just about any video on your PC once, then watch it immediately from wherever you are. Now if only someone would pick up where Rewatch let off and give us a native BBC iPlayer app for the iPad and iPad 3G too.
Out TBC | £TBC | Air Video (Via Automated Home)
