Orb on the iPhone isn’t new, as such, but the media streaming company has a newly designed interface especially intended for the cellphone and its iPod Touch cousin.  That puts pay to our overriding criticism of the service from last time - that the desktop UI wasn’t as compatible with the iPhone’s mobile Safari browser as would be nice – and now means that place-shifting music from your home PC to your iPhone via an MP4 stream is indecently simple.

Check out the video of the Orb iPhone interface in action, after the cut

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The use of MP4 means that Orb can work around Apple’s limitation of the RTSP mobile streaming protocol; users install a broadcast client on their home computer, select media to share, and then log in remotely on the iPhone’s browser.  There’s no Jailbreak required, and although live TV is unlikely to be compatible (as it is on, say, a laptop using the service) Orb automatically adjusts the media quality to fit it through whichever data pipe you’re using, EDGE or WiFi.

[via Apple-Touch.com]