Phones

• Netflix launched its Android application before it was able to build it to work with all phones that run with the Android operating system. Netflix cited a lack of standard streaming playback features for its inability to make the streaming service available to all Android users from the start. It pledged to continue to add phones as it determined which ones would support playback, according to a company blog posting. The first phones enabled for streaming were the HTC Incredible, the EVO 4G, G2, Nexus One and Samsung Nexus S, according to Wired.
  
  

Watch Instantly

• Netflix's streaming service, which allows you to view available movies and television shows instantly, does not give you access to the entire Netflix catalog. The bulk of Netflix's catalog, in fact, remains available on DVD only. In particular, new releases are rarely available through the streaming service for several weeks after the DVD release. Still, Netflix boasts thousands of movies and TV shows available via streaming.
  
  

Google Rentals

• In a story about the Android streaming service, "Wired" speculated that Netflix introduced the service before all Android phones could manage it because of the entry of Google -- the parent of the Android operating system -- into movie rentals. The formidable competitor's rental service will allow users to view movies on any Android device, offering a large number of customers an alternative to Netflix. Google's rental service is also available through the Android Market.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Prior to its Android streaming service application, Netflix already had made streaming available through Apple's iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad with an application designed specifically for those devices. The app for the iPhone and iPod Touch was introduced in August 2010. More than 300 devices operate with Android, representing more than 100 million users, according to Wired.