My question is how do all these apps affect the data plan. The data plan is supposedly unlimited, but then there is supposedly a lightly enforced 5GB data cap. Browsing standard web pages without flash is not going to rack up the gigabytes, but I would imagine watching youtube videos and streaming music to your iphone could rack up the data pretty quickly?

5GB just doesnt seem like a lot in this day in age especially with more graphics intensive web pages, streaming video, streaming music, downloadable content such as pdf files.

Anyone with relative experience care to shine some light on this vague data cap, and explain how one can use all these cool apps without going over the 5GB data cap every single month?

guht

ok actually got a signal in my basement office. verdict: slick interface, nice to have the radio, but no ipod scrobbling...yet. it is v1.0

seeandyspin

can anyone confirm if this scrobbles music played by the ipod side of the iphone? or are we still waiting for push in sept? last i remember the last.fm devs were pretty hesitant about doing anything about that yet until that was introduced...

seeandyspin

A shame we can't actually scrobble, but hopfully that will come in september. In the meantime you can use this to listen to radio and iScrobbler to scrobble the tracks when you sync with iTunes.

I just wish mine was activated already! :-(

CaptainChickenpants

I don't know if it's my connection or what, but I tried using it and it super slow loading.

Jerry

I'll check this out but I have to say I was pretty impressed with Pandora when I used it over the weekend.

jkrell

Yay! One application I've been waiting for. Last.fm rules.

evangelistc01

Here's a good link...

[www.pandora.com]

Definitely worth a try...

ajmcjoseph

If you're hooked on Last.fm then you're hooked...

Anyone with an iPhone or iPod Touch needs to at least checkout Pandora...create virtual radio stations based on artists directly to your phone...that's hot...

ajmcjoseph

I tired the Last.fm player... load times over Edge were abysmal. Pandora can start streaming a song in about 5 seconds after hitting next, Last.FM must buffer the entire thing as it takes more than 30 seconds.

ScottTFrazer

Does apps that don't run in the background such as this affect incoming calls while its running?

or just prevents you from running it, while running something else like playing a game?

PiNPOiNT

@ajmcjoseph: Pandora is for listening to music, but does it keep record of what you listen too? I use it but I've never "used" it if you know what I mean.

@PiNPOiNT: Unfortunately, this version of last.fm isn't the same as mobile scrobbler. You can scrobble songs you play on the radio, but not ones you play on your iPod (an issue Apple created via their SDK and API). So you can't run last.fm as a background application, unlike mobilescrobbler. Last.fm is currently working on a way around this and is talking to apple about it according to their blog.

evangelistc01

I really hope that people making jailbroken apps won't stop supporting them because of the new apps store. Mobile Scrobbler is a case where the jailbroken app actually works better then the app store application.

There are cases where the new apps store applications are better, but it'd really be nice to have the freedon to choose both types of Apps.

benjamen

my quick test over wifi led to a LOT of buffering. Don't know if it was traffic after last's blog post yesterday, or the same kind of buffering I've had with any last radio (last client, browser). that's why I never use it.

mdotbb

And why is it limited access to last.fm? It is not available for Swedish iTunes store... Kind of irritating and I can't really understand why not...

BlackSmp

Kudos to the blog author for clicking on Yngwie Malmsteen. Nice!

jkrell

a shame that it's not available for all countries.
app store portugal does not show this application, and i really loved microscrobbler...

maique

Scrobbling of tracks you already have on the iPhone/Touch is more important for a lot of us... It's typical of Last.FM to be working on something can already be done through Safari - they could've just tweaked the CSS for iPhone browsing, no need for an app...

encosion

MobileScrobbler is so much better. Even finds lyrics for the songs! this one can't do that.

Dereks

I've been using the unofficial last.fm mobile client for a while now on my PPC. Apparently they have been working on a new one called Pocket Scrobbler as well. Check it out if you've got a Winmo phone instead. Shoutcast and last.fm were 2 big reasons why I jumped on the 3G bandwagon a couple of years ago. No need to depend on radio to not suck when you can plug in your headphones and stream all kinds of your favorite music over your call phone.

JerryA

Not exactly what last.fm does, but I found the 'Tuner' app pretty cool. Allows you to listen to your favorite streams, has a good pre-defined list of stations by genre, and also has a bookmark feature. Mind you, its not free.

himanshu

@ evangelistc01

I'm really not too sure, as I no longer rocking an iPhone...from what my friends are saying though, it's an actual app, so I dont see why not?

Anyone know this?

ajmcjoseph