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Up until now, the iTunes is not equipped for over-the-air download of podcasts direct to IPhones or iPod Touch. That will soon change with the pending release of firmware upgrade 2.2. The new feature was included in the 2.2 beta that was distributed to developers for testing, and screenshots of this were published on a German blog “Flo’s Weblog.” There are doubts whether these downloads would bog down AT&T’s 3G network. Rumor is direct downloads may only be offered for files under 10MB. For now it looks like it will only be available for Wi-Fi connections. iPhone users were denied a chance to get this function on their phones earlier when an application called Podcaster was rejected from the App Store back in September. The iPhone app’s function also allows for Wi-Fi downloads of podcasts direct from ITunes, and was rejected because it “duplicates an existing feature.” That feature did not quite exist back then but obviously was on Apple’s roadmap Wi-Fi downloads of podcasts from iTunes coming
Up until now, the iTunes is not |


Up until now, the iTunes is not equipped for over-the-air download of podcasts direct to IPhones or iPod Touch. That will soon change with the pending release of firmware upgrade 2.2. The new feature was included in the 2.2 beta that was distributed to developers for testing, and screenshots of this were published on a German blog “Flo’s Weblog.” 

