How listen to internet radio with iphone?

Starting today, the latest edition of the magazine is available on newsstands iphone . With the approval of CMT Verlags GmbH we publish it this informative article . Author Tim Kaufmann explains how to receive global radio stations free of charge with the iPhone.

Latest music and hits from the past : through web radio you listen to radio stations from around the world for free, including news, sports and cultural program .

Web radio has been around forever, and more often on the radio program comes from the Internet to the iPhone and iPad . Almost all public broadcasters , private anyway , distribute their programs via the Internet. With an app for iOS , you can tap the radio streams. As a website also hosts a radio program on accessible fixed address . Which is entered into the app . It then holds regular contact with the broadcast server , receives from him the radio data and transforms them into audible . The simple web radio basic principle has been extensively extended and modernized over the years.
Web radio via iPhone

Today you have to only in exceptional cases, to know the web address of a radio program . Good iOS apps bring many thousands of stations with comprehensive catalogs. This search for the station name , your favorite music genres by country or a particular city. For transmission are widely used data formats such as MP3  to use , while also supporting the iPhone.

Almost every receivable by FM radio station can also be heard as a web radio . Furthermore, there are thousands of small music providers that exist solely as web radio . With online radio, there is no restriction to a few radio frequencies , which are divided among the major networks - which provides variety of music . The micro radios often provide only a few hundred or thousand listeners sometimes more, sometimes less exotic niche programs. Of their listeners , they are especially appreciated because they are devoted to issues that fall through the cracks during the Great - Division music, local news or special interests. That's why it pays to browse the catalog transmitter repeatedly and sometimes a listen off the master transmitter.

Gotchas Web radio

Of iPhone apps that receive web radio , there is no shortage . The apps of the major broadcasting hardly worth it , according to our tests. Are better apps that can receive many different TV channels - so you use an app for tens of Music offers.

As long as your iPhone is within range of a wireless network , the receiver usually works flawlessly. The situation is different if you want to receive web radio via mobile phone , so over 3G , LTE or EDGE. Your mobile operator pulls the volume of data transferred on your free volume . Most radios operate at data rates of 48-128 kbit / s This corresponds to a data transfer volume of 21.6 or 57.6 MB per hour. High quality radios such as the the audio specialist Linn bring it to 256 or 320 by the way even Kbit / s and thus up to 144 MB per hour.

Thus, the data rate is also available for the sound quality , the higher the better. For music , it should be even with a cheap headset or background noise at 96 kbit / s . These are approximate values ​​, the practice test you will need to make with your own ears .

The 3G mobile communications standard provides speeds from before 1200 kbit / s . That's enough even for the web radio reception of high-end audio , not only in theory but also in practice, and often even on the highway. 3G is not available , you will come to a theoretical speed of up to 59.2 kbit / s In practice, it stutters but transferred Web radio .

The correct web radio app

Currently the best internet radio app for the iPhone is the free Tune In Radio . The app pulls with a catalog of 70,000 stations on your iPhone and shows an example , which provide range of web radio apps today .

The catalog is divided into sections such as " music ", " Sports " and " News " . Besides, this it still has three more clever features that prevent you from drowning when browsing stations.

Voice Filter : The section "Languages" contains the stations according to the spoken language. Often, the language has an influence on the music program .

Regional filter the heading " Local Radio" requires that Tune In Radio is allowed to access the location information that provides iOS. Too closely , one should not interpret " local " distances of 150 kilometers before coming to the radio location. On the other hand, the function also makes no real error .

Spatial Filtering : The "Places " is the sequel to " Local" . Allows you to select cities and have the senders nearby. So you can just have a listen somewhere else or overrule a false location information in the app.

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One of the most important innovations in iOS 7 is the control center, which is expected to "control " is the German version . I tell you what it 's all about .

The Control Panel provides us with quick access to the main settings , controls and apps. It is accessible anywhere : on your home screen , in apps and the lock screen, if we have the latter option is not turned off in the settings of iOS 7th A wiping from the bottom up ( so to speak the "opposite " of the news center ) opens the Control Panel .
iOS 7 Control Center : the design

Some of you may be wondering about the strange color of the control center . But : In principle, it is colorless, like a pane of frosted glass that wraps around the screen. Since most of the images that Apple has released , show the home screen, we know him primarily in candy colors. Quite different is the situation when we open the Control Center in a black and white app:

The symbols of the control center are black / white design . Black says that the function is turned off. White is turned on.
iOS 7 Control Center : The functions in detail

The control center is divided into several areas : system settings , music player, sharing options and apps. Our graphic (click for large view) :

Right of the graph, we have broken the icons ( from left to right viewed on the iPhone) . Wireless connections like WiFi , we can now quickly turn off and on again - this preserves the iPhone battery . Also, we can immediately change the brightness according to our wishes . In the case of Air Drop Air Play and opens a window in which we specify detailed settings.

The control center is also linked to four apps : flashlight, clock / alarm, calculator and camera.
Conclusion: it was time !

Above all, a quick access to individual system settings (WiFi , etc. ) called iPhone owners for a long time . Jailbreak and Android devices offered something already - so it was high time that Apple allows such a practical approach .
As proven by the Control Center in practice , we need to test it first though . It lacks , for example, the opportunity to take individual buttons individually . I'd rather have a to- do app instead of the calculator in the App area .

Best iOS 7 ready apps for iPhone

Phone looks completely different from iOS 7 . Especially the call acceptance Apple has improved . We present this important app .

Surfing, gaming , reading mails , receive messages - there was not anything else? That's right , the iPhone is also there to make phone calls . The phone app presents itself - like just about everything in iOS 7 - in a new outfit.

Phone App on the iPhone : Features

The basic function of the phone app have remained the same. The application offers us in the first place :

•     dial ,

•     Access to the contacts from the address book ,

•     Favorite contacts ,

•     Caller list (all / missed ) and

•     Voicemail access .

Special functions such as the suppression of the number are possible in part through the settings.
Phone App in iOS 7: The main changes

The buttons are round and have a larger surface area on the screen . The list of calls comes in a bright design - which is not to everyone's taste.

The most important button - the call button - is now larger and therefore even more striking . The menu bar at the bottom has remained the same range of functions .

Call answering now shows immediately the Options button. In iOS 6 we have to still pull up at an incoming phone call , which can be easily overlooked. If you still do not know the function : We can , for example, set a reminder for the recall. Or we will send in just two clicks a reply SMS from , for example, as an excuse for the rejected call. The text , we can manually preset (see New iPhone : 10 important settings ) .

A consistency of design is difficult to determine : time the buttons are shown on a light background , at times dark . When a call to the home screen is not hidden by frosted glass , as in other applications, but through transparency. Some things such as the rejection of a caller are not self-explanatory everywhere .

Conclusion iOS Phone 7 App
The phone app advances introduced with iOS 6 ways to reject a call, in the foreground . This is handy , as well as the enlargement of the main keys. So less can go wrong in the heat of battle phone .

How to Hide Your iPhone Number When Calling Someone

When we call someone with the iPhone , we usually send to our phone number . How can we suppress our phone number so that the called party does not see them ? A beginner tip.

Normally, the transmission of the call is a beautiful thing : If the called party in the address you , your call through image , attribution and / or personalized ringtone is announced. It depends on the settings of care and address of the caller.

Etc. At hotline calls but we often do not want that our number is enclosed. So we can suppress them on the iPhone :
suppress iPhone number generally

Hiding the phone runs on the mobile operator. On the iPhone, we can suppress the number without a bad -to-remember number codes . In the settings of iOS 7 you can find a simple switch , specifically here:

You can therefore generally sending the own number - or off.
Suppress number for each call

We can hide the phone with a GSM code for even a single call . For this we use as additional " code " the following four characters :

Therefore you choose , for example :
A subsequent call without # 31 # send our number with again . Want a phone number from the Contacts app on the iPhone use , it is recommended that the code there with  or to piece together the number in a text app (notes, email ) and then copy it to the phone app .

Did you send the phone off by default , you can with the GSM code * 31 # enclose once as an additional code number - or so storing in any contacts with the address book.

More tutorials on the topic:

•     Reject callers on the iPhone

•     General block individual callers

•     10 important settings in iOS 7

•     Calling New Features of iOS 7: Overview

The Best Hidden Features in iOS 7

It's not a bug , it's a feature " - Its Does not have an error , but its has a function with value ? The only certainty is that you can nest in the current version of iOS 7.0.3 folder into each other . How this works you read here .

Folder in iOS 7 were not just a cosmetic upgrade. Finally it is also possible to push a large number of apps in each folder. Multiple pages within a folder to make it possible.

But did you know that you can also move a folder to the next ? Whether this is intentional is debatable - namely, on the one hand , there are no official instructions from Apple. On the other hand, it requires a bit of skill , which is otherwise not expected to smartphone users.
So it creates a folder in another folder :

Taps his finger to a folder that you want to put in another until it is gray.
  
Immediately ( really now - only a fraction of a second later ) , and even before he begins to shake , you press twice in a row on the home button . This opens the multitasking view.
Typed now left in the multitasking view on the homescreen . Here , the previously selected folder will now appear big and gray .

Now select the folder that want to take the first in her.

Again press the home button .

And now you have a nested folder. WE MUST GO DEEPER ! Yes, you can move them to a folder and a folder in a folder. Simply follow the steps above and go one level deeper in the selection of the destination folder .

How do I move apps in nested folders ?

That is also possible , though not as easy as apps in a "normal" folder to move first , uh ok . Her through the same tricks as above with the folder . So tap immediately after double-press the home button and navigate to the nested folders . There, just press the Home button and it stores the selected application .