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Podcasts On Your iPhone

Posted August 14, 2007 1:00 AM by Paul Levinson
Categories: Podcasts 

I just posted a special episode of one of my four podcasts - Light On Light Through - and realized, as I was finishing up the show notes, that podcasts are doubly relevant to iPhones.

You can of course browse the web via iPhone, and find podcasts just as you would do on your computer.

But there are several sites that serve you podcasts on telephone - including your iPhone - free of charge.  Podlinez.com is the one I use - both to upload my own podcasts and to listen to others.  I just took a look at their page, and, guess what, among the most recently added podcasts are three about the iPhone.

Podlinez has more than 700 podcasts available for your phone.  You can easily browse through the site, and find ones you like.

And, I don’t know exactly why, but there’s something especially enjoyable about listening to podcasts on your phone.  If you have a car with Bluetooth (I drive a Prius, which does), you can hear the podcast over your radio speakers…

If you get chance to listen to Light On Light Through - you can get it at 415-223-4122 - let me know how you like it.

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  1. How were you able to get your iPhone to play in your Prius over Bluetooth. That’s a great tip. I would love to be able to do that.

    Posted by Steve Rubel on August 14, 2007 3:51 AM

  2. "If you have a car with Bluetooth (I drive a Prius, which does), you can hear the podcast over your radio speakers…”
    Unless something has happened recently, bluetooth is strictly for the phone app, not for any other app like ipod.  And yes, this is annoying.

    Posted by Randal L. Schwartz on August 14, 2007 8:08 AM

  3. Randal: Right, Bluetooth only works with the phone app.

    Steve: At this point, I’m still using my Nokia cell phone with Bluetooth to listen to podcasts via the Prius radio (audio system).  (An especially cool feature is you can put the numbers of your podcasts on your Prius Bluetooth screen directory, and just punch up whatever podcast you want to hear.  Nothing like doing that with the windows open, and coasting along the highway.)

    But here are some further details you can track down: Prius has a site which lists all the cell phones with Bluetooth that work in the cars.  It’s a somewhat complicated fit: not every cell phone with Bluetooth works on every Prius model (there are especially differences in the years - my Prius is a 2006), and different cell phones with Bluetooth may not have all the features for each Prius model and year.  (For example, some do not allow you to import your cell phone directory into the Prius console - you have to do it manually.)

    So, you’ll first need to see if iPhone is already on the list.  If not, I bet it will be for the 2008 Prius models coming out this Fall.  And, you can also talk to your own Prius dealer about what can be done to fiddle with the Prius program to make a Bluetooth iPhone work on it right now.

    Posted by Paul Levinson on August 14, 2007 1:52 PM

  4. Well, it’s a bit disingenuous of you to imply (by repeatedly talking about iPhones) that you can listen to a podcast using an iPhone on your bluetooth enabled car, when in fact it’s something you haven’t tested, and as far as I know (unless you know differently) not even possible.  I’m not saying you’re being deliberately deceptive, but it’s certainly sloppy writing.

    Posted by Randal L. Schwartz on August 14, 2007 1:58 PM

  5. Randal - I’m suggesting that this would be a very enjoyable use of the iPhone.  It certainly works for dozens of other cell phones.  No reason it shouldn’t for the iPhone - if not now, when the Prius and other cars that are Bluetooth enabled add the iPhone to their specs.  I’m sorry if you find this “sloppy” writing.

    Posted by Paul Levinson on August 14, 2007 6:54 PM

  6. And, I would add that most of my post is not about Bluetooth and cars - it is about listening to podcasts on your iPhone, which you can certainly do with Bluetooth or Prius.

    Posted by Paul Levinson on August 14, 2007 6:56 PM

  7. It is not a problem with the Prius!  How many times do I need to tell you that?  The iPhone doesn’t send iPod audio into bluetooth, so it CANNOT WORK.  Understand that, it CANNOT WORK.  It’s apple’s problem, not a problem for the prius.  This is what I mean by SLOPPY REPORTING.  You should research a bit before talking about the iPhone this casually.

    Posted by Randal L. Schwartz on August 14, 2007 6:57 PM

  8. oops - I meant “certainly do withOUT Bluetooth or Prius” in the above ...smile

    Posted by Paul Levinson on August 14, 2007 6:58 PM

  9. Randal - we’re talkin across each other here.  I’m saying you don’t need iPod audio & Bluetooth to listen to podcasts on your iPhone.  You can call use the iPhone as a cell phone, and call up any of the numbers on Podlinez, etc - including the number I listed - and get the podcast that way.

    And, regarding the Prius, the Bluetooth capabilities of all cell phones are the not same for every Prius.  That’s a separate issue.

    Posted by Paul Levinson on August 14, 2007 7:02 PM

  10. The title of your post is “Podcasts on your iPhone”.  And you finish up by saying “And, I don’t know exactly why, but there’s something especially enjoyable about listening to podcasts on your phone.  If you have a car with Bluetooth (I drive a Prius, which does), you can hear the podcast over your radio speakers…”.  If that’s not connected, it doesn’t belong in the same article.  I don’t think we’re talking cross purposes.  I think I’m being very clear that you didn’t do your homework.  Perhaps you don’t even have an iPhone, in which case, why are you posting to an iPhone blog?

    Posted by Randal L. Schwartz on August 14, 2007 7:08 PM

  11. Right, I wrote one sentence about Prius and Bluetooth at the end of a post about podcasts and iPhones - which you can hear on iPhones, by calling up the phone numbers that play podcasts.

    You’ll have to ask the editor about why I am writing on this blog - he invited me, and knew that I didn’t own an iPhone.

    Posted by Paul Levinson on August 14, 2007 7:16 PM

  12. Just cycled back here to give a further response to Randal -

    You seem to think I’m being a “reporter” when I post here about the meaning and impact of the iPhone.  That’s not the case.  I’m an historian and a futurist and a media theorist - that’s where my education is, and those are the precincts in which I work as a professor and author.

    To give a concrete example: my 2003 book, Realspace: The Fate of Physical Presence in the Digital Age, On and Off-Planet, received praise from NASA scientist Michael Allison and many others.  I’ve of course never flown in space.  That doesn’t prevent me from understanding, explaining, predicting, and otherwise writing about its impact.

    So, you may think that I didn’t do my “homework”.  But those kinds of details are only a minor part, if any, of my assignment here - which is, in a few hundred words or less, to sketch where I see the iPhone as coming from, and where I think it is going.

    I hope you find this useful, and thought-provoking.  If not - if it irritates you - then you have my apologies, but I guess not everything that everyone writes is everyone’s cup of tea.

    Posted by Paul Levinson on August 14, 2007 11:47 PM

  13. It’ a great piece and provides good insight as to where we are all going to find ourselves soon

    Apple has created the iPhone (love mine)
    What a great marketing move for Apple.

    Do you think we will see other companies creating phones for their niches?

    Phones that would apply to a companies audience make sense to me. Company creates a phone and loads it with widgets that would appeal to their clientele and customer base.

    Now add the UGC piece where you have users creating content for these devices and it really starts to get exciting when you allow the UGC space to monetize their content.

    3.25 billion Sale Phones, Now that’s a real market if you ask me. This just might be the next big thing..

    By the way Thanks for the tip about podlinez.com it ROCKS! you can click the numbers at podlinez from the iPhone and it auto dials. I have my favorite podcasts setup for speed dial. Very convenient service

    Posted by Cup Of Tea on August 25, 2007 12:49 AM

  14. Thanks - nothing a Cup of Tea’s clarity!  smile

    I’m glad you’re enjoying podlinez - it typifies the expansion of podcasts from iPods to laptops to phones…

    I have two other podcasts on podlinez - currently on summer break, but I’ll be starting them up again in September:

    Levinson news clips at 415 223 4124 -mostly television reviews, 2-5 mins, the current selection on podlinez is about The Sopranos finale

    Ask Lev at 510 248 0382 -mostly advise on how to succeed as a writer, 2-5 mins, the current selection is about submissions of the same story to different editors at the same time…

    Posted by Paul Levinson on August 27, 2007 3:52 PM

  15. oops ... I meant “nothing LIKE a Cup of Tea’s clarity!” (well, it was worth repeating twice)…

    Also - yes, I think you’re completely right about companies creating phones for their niches.  What the phone looks like, what it does, how it works - these are becoming as personalized as jewelry and automobiles…

    Posted by Paul Levinson on August 27, 2007 3:57 PM

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