iphone use for premium? web app?

[mastersjn]

Konichiwa

I am new to this site (and learning Japanese, maybe I used the wrong hello), and didn't find any posts relating to iphone (by searching iphone).

I like the idea of the learn on the go, but with an iphone, I am not able to set up as an external drive, so I cant move the pdfs over like I could on an ipod classic. It seems my world is based on Web Apps. Any chance you are planning to make the on the go part of the premium subscription available that way? Something to make it easier than surfing to the main site (I can do, but clumsy that way). If comcast can set up a web interface for mail for this, maybe not too hard? There is already a site to help with strokes (see iphone.marinebat.com, called gahon for iphone)

Anyway, it is the only issue keeping me from going premium

Agrigato goziamasu in advance

Jeff

[markystar]

hi there!

i don't have an iPhone (not available here yet) and i don't have an iTouch (seems apple didn't port all the features from old iPods to the new ones and the new HD size hasn't convinced me to upgrade yet), but the listeners do.

a few threads where the iPhone, iTouch got mentioned are listed below:

http://www.japanesepod101.com/forum/vie ... ght=itouch

http://www.japanesepod101.com/forum/vie ... ght=itouch

http://www.japanesepod101.com/forum/vie ... ght=itouch

i know one of the biggestt complaints i heard was that the Lyrics and iPod Info tags don't display on the iPhone and iTouch. i'm not sure if they've fixed this, but it seems like it would be addressed soon, as these are popular features - not only on our site.

the PDF's are viewable on the iPhone and iTouch.

one of the coolest on-the-go features is the iLearning Center, which features the Line by Line audio and content questions, etc...
but since i don't have an iPhone/iTouch, i couldn't tell you if they work.

[mastersjn]

thanks for the reply, I'll check into the links.

While the iphone does not have a center button, the beauty is it is a touch screen. So when the lesson starts to play, just tapping the screen brings up the text of the lesson (kanji, katakana and romanji). It looks much better than my video classic.

Viewing pdfs, I assume I need to navigate to the site, I don't think I can drag a pdf onto the iphone like I did with my classic . This is the part that is maybe flawed, because I need to be online to review this part. If someone knows how to drag it on, I';d like to know

If I cant load the pdf, I assume the on the go doesn't work, hence me asking for the web app instead.

Jeff

[Jason]

Having an iPhone/iPT friendly version of the site would certainly be nice. But you should know that until they add Flash support to them, most of the more interesting features of the Learning Center wouldn't work without having to be completely rewritten.

[プチクレア]

The questions do work on the Iphone / Ipod Touch, as do the flashcards. It's the audio features (line-by-line and pronunciation practice) that do not work.

[Jason]

The iPhone/iPT SDK was released just last week. We'll be exploring interesting ways to use Web Apps and native apps to better bring jpod101 (and other *pod101) content to those of you who have one. We just started looking into this, so I can't give you anymore details on this yet.