Hey iPhone users, if you have a Netflix subscription and some downtime, you can rejoice: you can now access the Netflix streaming catalog on your iPhone. Previously, only iPad users had that luxury.
The app is free, but requires a subscription of $8.99 a month or higher (same as the requirement for streaming on other devices). One cool feature extended to the iPhone: you can stop watching on one device and pick up the content on another device where you left off.
No doubt, this is one way Netflix is aiming to stay ahead of Hulu and their new subscription service.
At our sister paper in Houston, Dwight Silverman pointed to an item that asks the logical follow-up question: how much data does streaming Netflix utilize? Some rough math done by Clicker says you can watch roughly 13 hours before hitting the 2 GB data cap; the data, which they roughly determined was 2.5MB a minute, is hard to recommend for those on the 200MB plan, given a few TV shows could easily push a user over the limit.
SOURCES: CNet News.com, Clicker via Houston Chronicle TechBlog
