Manage Your Netflix Queue on Your Nokia Phone
If you’re one of the owners of a Nokia E72, E71x, 5800, N97, or N97 mini (and I’ll tell you this, the N97 is an unbelievable phone with more features than a Swiss army knife) then you have a whole new reason to be happy you shelled out seven hundred bucks on a cell phone (yeah, that’s what they cost)–you can now manage your Netflix queue from any one of them.
Netflix released the Nokia app just Monday, and it allows you to browse titles, manage your queue, and even watch video previews of upcoming releases.
At last report, Blockbuster Online doesn’t have anything even vaguely similar to this, so that’s one more nail in their coffin. I’m not sure why Netflix felt the need to come out with this one, though–it’s not like they really needed the help. They’re pounding most everybody into the ground already, so why spike the ball? Not that I’m complaining, mind you–it’s a great idea whose time has truly come. But the why of it does elude me somewhat.
Well, not that it even matters. It’s available, and it’s awesome.
November 30th, 2009 at 4:54 am
[...] In a time when everyone’s getting into a giant tizzy about H1N1 and the regular flu and the rockin-pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu, even thought those last two don’t actually exist that I know of, everyone’s looking a little harder at hand washings and hand sanitizer. The things you touch are now suddenly suspect, and one of the things being looked at the hardest are those Netflix discs. [...]