Listening to podcasts on iPhone in the Apple’s way is too cumbersome. You have to subscribe to your favorite podcasts in iTunes on your system and you can’t subscribe to podcasts on your iPhone. Once subscribed, iTunes will check for new episodes and you have to sync your iPhone to get those new episodes on to your phone. Of course, you can get new episodes for your podcasts on your iPhone but to do that you have to switch from iPod app to iTunes app on your iPhone. So, you have to switch between these two apps to access your podcast list and new episodes. And there is one more caveat. You can’t download episodes that are over 10MB on your iPhone. For episodes that are over 10MB, you have to sync to iTunes.
And the solution for this problem is a third-party app called ‘FeedReader’. Once you download this app, you can subscribe to your favorite podcasts in RSS or Atom format and listen or watch the audio/video podcasts embedded in the feed. The only difficult part here is that you have to find the non-iTunes link to your podcast in RSS or Atom format. Search in Google and you will find RSS or Atom feed URLs for most iTunes podcasts.
You can either stream the media in your podcasts over the air or download them for offline viewing. And there is no size restriction. If you have a nice 3G coverage, you can listen to all your podcasts over the air and never worry about syncing with iTunes.
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