[Well thanks for the ridiculous anvil drop, Mr Wile E. Coyote, but it's not iPhone batteries that are overheating, it's a few users who pack their iphone into a tight case and leave it in the sun until the plastics turn brown. The iPhone hardware is pretty rock solid compared to the flimsy plastic crap that most phones are built from. A couple times a day I see somebody drop a Nokia-type cell phone and watch their back cover and "replaceable battery" skittering off across the floor. I also have a friend that insists on playing catch with his iPhone, regularly dropping it to the point where the glass is mostly shattered and large pieces are missing. It still works though - Dan]

Seems like a feature that nobody would be happy with. If you want to set up an Icecast server yourself, you can do so with modifications that enable your iPhone to play back content from anywhere.

The only way I could see Apple making it work is if the company tied it into MobileMe like Back to My Mac, so that you could discover your home server remotely, and securely tunnel your stream to a registered device. Of course, I can’t imagine that streaming audio over the mobile network would result in great battery life.

Peace,
Gene Steinberg