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"Comcast Mobile App" Hits the App Store

U.S. cable TV and Internet provider Comcast has released Comcast Mobile App [App Store, Free], offering integrated access to the company's Digital Voice, Digital Cable, and High-Speed Internet services on the iPhone. Macworld provides an overview of the application's package of features.

The Comcast Mobile App lets you access your Comcast e-mail, manage your Digital Voice account, peruse Comcast's TV listings, and watch trailers for movies on Comcast On-Demand. The opening interface can be viewed as a list, a grid, or in a CoverFlow-like icon rotation. Shaking the iPhone switches between these three views.

The application offers a "SmartZone" inbox that displays both e-mails and voicemails for Comcast subscribers, viewable either in a combined feed or in separate lists. The application also allows for management of the subscriber's Digital Voice account, providing such features as call logs and call forwarding settings.

Comcast Mobile App also offers television listings, providing the ability to mark shows as favorites, share program descriptions over e-mail, and set reminder alerts for shows. Unfortunately, the application does not offer a DVR interface that would allow subscribers to remotely schedule recordings. Finally, the application offers on-demand viewing of movie trailers. Comcast is reportedly looking at ways to offer additional content beyond trailers, but there is no word on when new content might be deployed.

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Posted: 37 months ago
Pretty cool. I like the TV listings. Now I don't have to roach titan tv every time I need to know what the next show is about.
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Posted: 37 months ago
I wish they included a way to pay your bill from the app...
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Posted: 37 months ago
Why can't Cablevision offer an app like this?
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Posted: 37 months ago

I wish they included a way to pay your bill from the app...


or program your DVR :)
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Posted: 37 months ago
Comcast doesn't allow us to set our DVR from anywhere but the DVR itself. No mobile services, no setting it online. I just don't understand why TiVo & DirecTV can do it no problem, but Comcast neglects to give us the feature. Do other cable providers like Time Warner allow remote DVR setting abilities?
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Posted: 37 months ago

Why can't Cablevision offer an app like this?


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Contact them and tell them you want it. I did.

http://optimum.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/optimum.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php
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Posted: 37 months ago
By default it is set to look for messages every 5 min.
I had to go into setting and turn it to manual.
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Posted: 37 months ago
Yeah, without being able to program your DVR from this program, it's mostly useless in my opinion. We can answer our comcast emails already and there are various free tv guide apps out there. The On Demand is nice, but if you're not in front of your tv set, what good is it? And if you are in front of your tv set, do you really need this app??!!
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Posted: 37 months ago
Comcast HD isn't available with this new app; and it only displays so many channels. They need to include HD or it's useless to those with Comcast HD....:(:(:(
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Posted: 37 months ago

By default it is set to look for messages every 5 min.
I had to go into setting and turn it to manual.


How does this work? Doesn't this check your e-mail ONLY when you are already in the app? I can't imagine Comcast would be able get this to check e-mail while you are in other apps or not using the phone.
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