http://youtube.com/watch?v=T1BHuQ5RbLU

Here is another video posted about Mobilcast at 3 UK.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wOkEi1iE2oE

Rob Greenlee
Melodeo Mobilcast
http://www.mobilcast.com

I agree with Ben that the GUI does require a certain reworking. I wonder why designers/developers let themselves down when the important working element [the interface] is not as polished as the rest of the application.

Having said that I would like to see a short video [aka Camtasia style] of you doing these reviews of the software applications Ewan. Would’nt that be cool – Ewan’s reviews in video format so we can see you move through the app and make your choice comments. Surely somebody in your vast network of friendly developer techie types will have something that will allow you to do that.

Well now it’s the weekend, must go off and make plans to disrupt the mobile Telco industry………………….

Speak soon

We are always working to improve mobilcast and your above comments are right on target with what we are working on to improve. We will also soon have what we are calling HiFi audio quality and video podcast support in mobilcast. You can go to Melodeo.com and create a playlist of your “My Favorite” podcasts and have them sync’ed to your mobile phone. Just visit this page and follow the instructions – http://www.melodeo.com/mobile_center

My job here at Melodeo Mobilcast is to manage the content and to do online marketing activities. I am also a early podcaster myself as host of WebTalk Radio for 8 years.

I am very interested in building a much better selection of UK podcasts, please spread the word and have more UK based podcasters submit their podcasts to us and it will be easier to find your favorite podcasts via our search on the phone. We presently have about 7,500 podcasts in our database and want much more.

I think your comments about the UI and subscription downloading in the Nokia Podcasting application are interesting and we will talk about it more here.

Thanks for all of your comments about mobilcast and keep it coming. Oh, I will get the Prime Minister’s Questions podcast into the inventory.

Rob Greenlee
http://www.melodeo.com

Mobile Podcast Listening Blog
http://mobilcasting.blogspot.com

I find it an excellent application with only one caveat: I wonder why they did not put some more effort in designing a more appealing user interface. There are plenty of bad applications with a great UI. In this case we have a great application with a bad User Interface (At least for what I like)

At the end of the day it’s running on an high end phone with lot of graphics capabilities.

Anyway, it works great and that is what really matters.

Podcasts on you mobile via 3G… That’s cool but the Mobilcast app is ugly, doesn’t follow the Series60 interface style and more importantly forces you to download the podcast when you want it. Credit where credit is due, the podcast directory is OK, but nowhere near as good as Odeo or iTunes on a desktop.

I vastly prefer the Nokia podcasting app, becasue one you’ve subscribed it automatically checks for new podcasts and downloads them for you in the background to the destination of your choice…

I guess it’s kind of a moot point since Nokia provide a series 60 podcasting application, and X Series will cover data usage through most apps (from what I hear).

But it would be nice.