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Age rating: 4+
Compatibility: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
Comcast mobile AppCurrent Version: 2.2
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Experience the best features of Comcast Digital Voice®, Digital Cable and High Speed Internet services on the go-right on your iPhone and iPod touch.
Stay connected on the go with your SmartZone® unified inbox, where you can check your Comcast.net email and voice mail together in one place. Sync your mobile address book with your Universal Address Book to make staying connected even easier. You can see who called your home; listen to important voice mail messages, and forward calls from home to your iPhone.
myDVR Manager:(**AVAILABLE ONLY IN SELECT MARKETS**)
Schedule programs to record on your DVR from your iPhone and iPod touch and view your upcoming recordings so you never miss a show again. This feature is enabled in the Guide module. Check for the myDVR Manager icon at the bottom of the Guide screen. If you see this icon then your DVR is ready for remote scheduling. If you don’t see the icon, it just means your DVR is not yet ready for remote scheduling. Once this feature is rolled out on to your DVR at home, you will see a notification pop up the next time you log into the app. You will also receive an email notification to your comcast.net email address when it's available in your area.**myDVR Manager is expected to be available to most markets by summer 2010**
FEATURES
SmartZone® Unified inbox
-Email and visual voice mail in a single inbox
-Push Notifications for new email and voice mail
-Mark emails as ‘Spam’, sort and search your email
-Mark messages as ‘Read/Unread’ and ‘Heard/Unheard’
-Upload attachments from your photo library
-Access your external email accounts all in one place – Gmail, Yahoo etc
Comcast Digital Voice ®
-Listen to your voice mail and view your home phone call logs
-Forward a voice mail as an attachment in an email
-Forward your home phone calls to your iPhone, or any other number
-Quickly add a caller’s phone numbers directly to your Universal Address Book.
Universal Address Book
-Sync your iPhone/iPod touch contacts with your online Universal Address Book
-Add your contacts as favorites along with their pictures
-Add/delete/modify your Universal Address Book contacts from within the App.
The Guide (TV listings)
-Browse your TV programming in portrait and landscape view
-Schedule recordings on the go with myDVR Manager (Available in select markets)
-Switch between multiple DVRs and ‘Quick Record’ with a single tap
-Filter TV listings based on Movies, Kids, HD and others
-Mark your favorite channels and programs
-Push Notification alerts for TV reminders. Manager Reminders
-Share your favorite shows and show times with your friends
On Demand
-Watch trailers for the latest movies available On Demand
-Explore the On Demand content library
-Browse through the latest movies or pick your favorite category of movies - Action, Comedy, Same Day as DVD, Drama, Family and Kids
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Comcast mobile App Review
Easy access to Comcast.net e-mail and Digital Voice messages
As one of the major Internet and cable television providers in the United States, Comcast has a lot of customers—many of them who also have iPhones and iPod touches . The Comcast mobile App is a handy app to have if you heavily rely on Comcast e-mail and Digital Voice services.
As I explained in my first look at the Comcast mobile App, the software 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.
One Inbox to Rule Them All: You can access both your Comcast.net e-mail and Comcast Digital Voice messages through one inbox.
The App’s SmartZone Inbox is a nicely designed unified inbox for your Comcast.net e-mail and voicemail messages. You can peruse separate inboxes for e-mail and voicemail by simply pressing on the on-screen tabs. Unfortunately, the SmartZone Inbox is for Comcast messages only; you can’t access other e-mail account you may have, like Gmail, Yahoo, or your own domain. You’ll still need to use the iPhone’s Mail app for those accounts. (The built-in Mail app can still access your Comcast.net e-mail.)
The Digital Voice message access is especially helpful for when you want to access your voicemail remotely. To listen to a voicemail, just tap it. You can also returns calls made to your Digital Voice account (the calls use your iPhone account). But there’s no way to forward a voicemail message to someone via e-mail, a nice feature that’s available if you log into your Comcast.net account through a Web browser.
The Comcast mobile App’s Address Book plugs into the iPhone’s Contacts, making the Comcast Address Book seem redundant. If you use a Comcast.net address book online, the contacts in your Comcast mobile App sync with the online address book. You can also use Plaxo to sync your contact databases between your Mac’s Address Book and your Comcast.net account.
Very Demanding: The On Demand feature lets you view movie trailers of films available on On Demand for your TV.
Comcast includes two features in the app that cable television customers will find limited use for. The Guide, provides TV listings, but there’s currently no interoperability with Comcast digital video recorders, so you can’t, for example, set your DVR at home to record a show remotely or over your local area network. The other feature, On Demand, lets you watch movie trailers of films available in Comcast’s On Demand service—you don’t actually get to watch On Demand full-length movies or TV shows on your iPhone.
With its limitations, the Comcast mobile App is best suited for Comcast customers whose daily duties require constant access to their Comcast.net e-mail and Digital Voice message. TV customers won’t find much practical use for The Guide and On Demand features, though Comcast says they hope to add more TV functionality in the future.
Comcast mobile App is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.1 software update.
[Roman Loyola is a Macworld senior editor.]
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Comcast Mobile App Good, But missing Key Features (3rd Attempt)
With Comcast Broadband Internet service, you get up to 7 e-mail addresses. One master for the account, and 6 more that you can turn on or off on a whim. This is good for reacting to spam - don't use the master, but rather only the secondaries. If one starts attracting spam, just kill it and create a new address. I do this, and each address is for a different purpose, bills, shopping, personal use, frivolous use, etc. Before Comcast switched their webmail access to SmartZone, you could log in to one webmail account, and manage all of your available e-mail accounts, both to receive and send. With SmartZone they have done away with this feature, and now you only have POP read access to e-mail accounts other than the one you log in to. This limitation is similar in the iPhone app. The real problem is that if you want to access the digital voice account, it is only available when logged in to the master account, which for me is the e-mail address I don't send from. If they could bring back access to the all e-mail accounts with only one login, they would infinitely increase the usefulness of this app. This is because when using the iPhone mail app, while I can read incoming mail from all my Comcast accounts, I can only send from the master, which is the ONE I really DON'T want to send from. The Comcast app DOES let me send from the secondary accounts, but I have to log in to each one separately. If they could unify all the accounts into one login, it would be the perfect situation for them, and I would raise my review by 2 stars. -- Regarding the remote control of the DVR, others, ATT Uverse and DirecTV, already have this capability for the iPhone. Comcast just needs to catch up. Supposedly they are working this for a future rev of this app. Hopefully they will recognize that some households have multiple DVRs and let you remotely select which unit to control. This feature is also worth 2 stars in my review. -- Kudos to Comcast for working with iPhone, an
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