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Confirmed: Netflix On The iPhone Coming This Summer
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Tom Cheredar   |  

2010-06-07_netflix_iPhone4Netflix‘s streaming media library is finally coming to the iPhone app store, according to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings who announced the news today at the Apple WWDC event.

The push to make Netflix available will happen this summer and coincide with the release of Apple’s fourth generation iPhone device, which features a plethora of major hardware upgrades.

The iPhone 4 (as it’s currently being called) will sport a larger 3.5 inch display, 960×640 resolution with 326 pixels per inch, 800:1 contrast ratio (4x better than the older model), IPS Technology for superb color, and wide viewing angle, stated Apple CEO Steve Jobs on the WWDC stage.

“It has 78 percent as many pixels as the iPad! Right in the palm of your hand!,” Jobs said.

While many people will continue to scoff at the idea of viewing a film on a 3.5-inch screen since it’s intended to be seen in a large theater, the display upgrades on the new iPhone are a ridiculous leap forward from what’s in the current mobile handheld marketplace.

So yeah, avoid watching The Dark Knight (or anything made by Christopher Nolan) on all iPhone devices, but who wouldn’t love to kill a boring half hour with some BBC sitcoms?

[Source & Photo: MobileCrunch]

4 Comments »

  1. Ah ha! Caught you At&t! With At&t’s new pricing they are sure to catch people going over the $25 2GB a month mark by streaming movies on Netflix. So they set a new rate, get the new iPhone and dangle Netflix in front of you, you can’t resist it and you go over the 2gb mark and get charged overage rates. I knew something smelled fishy.

    Comment by SilentJay74 — June 7, 2010 @ 2:57 pm

  2. Yeah, I assume this is how it will go. No longer limited by functionality, we’ll be slaves to useless hunks of glass, metal and plastic because none of us have the money to do what we’d like.

    I really hope the FCC steps in and makes Net Neutrality mandatory for all service providers.

    I want my damn Netflix minus hidden fees!!

    Comment by Tom Cheredar — June 7, 2010 @ 3:45 pm

  3. @Tom
    Net Neutrality has nothing whatsoever to do with how much data you can get for what price on a carrier. The only thing that Net Neutrality would affect would be if AT&T said you can get unlimited of their content (videos hosted by AT&T) but could have only 2g of other traffic. As long as it’s content agnostic (which it seems to be) it wouldn’t matter.

    Also, I don’t really see myself streaming entire movies on my iPhone where I’m not in a place with WiFi access anyway.

    Comment by billyadams — June 7, 2010 @ 10:49 pm

  4. If the FCC succeed in revising the TelCom act to include any company that is in the business of providing a communications service, then yes, it would matter.

    AT&T is trying to evolve from an all-you-can-“eat” model of pricing to a Tiered/pay-as-you-go model, (which is historically much more lucrative in terms of profit for ISPs.)

    Any pay-as-you-go model sucks because it limits the amount of data you can receive/send by how much you can afford to spend.

    So, right now, no it does not apply. You are correct on that, but it could and I hope it does.

    Comment by Tom Cheredar — June 8, 2010 @ 3:28 pm

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