Pokemon on your iPhone is pretty interesting, but I think that this game is a bit silly seeing as the people that own an iPhone are not in the right age group to enjoy Pokemon. Typically Pokemon is for a younger crowd that can not afford or does not have access to an iPhone, but still very cool to see more and more games being brought over to this medium. One thing Apple will need to improve quickly is the battery life on the iPhone, that thing does not even last a day if you use it moderately let alone try to play a game on it.
That’s right, Steve Jobs just announced that the new 3G version of the iPhone will be hitting stores in July, July 11th to be exact. Looks like the new version of the iPhone will be a bit thicker and will definitely have 3G technology as well as capability to run 3rd party apps and games.
Apple claims its 3G speeds trounce the competition, with pageloads 36% faster than the N95 and Treo 750 — and of course it completely trounces the old EDGE data. Battery life isn’t getting put out to pasture though, with 300 hours of standby, 8-10 hours of 2G talk, 5 hours of 3G talk, 7 hours of video and 24 hours of audio. GPS is also a go. Apple is using A-GPS, which supplements regular satellite GPS data with info from cellular towers.
Not only is this version touting the new firmware 2.0 and all it’s goodies but also touting a lower price point. That’s right, all this and a bag of chips for $199. Also expect this version to launch everywhere at the same time; no more timed releases. Looks like Apple came through with a doozy at it’s WWDC, look for more info as it becomes available.
Apple hopes to launch in 70 countries this year. 8GB is available for $199, 16GB for $299 — and the 16GB comes in white. Apple will be hitting the 22 biggest markets, including the US, on July 11th. Pre-orders are available now at the Apple Store.
No mention of a contract just yet but I can almost guarantee a 2 year deal with AT&T, I am going to stop typing now and go reserve mine now, see ya!
Today is Apple’s big keynote address and Steve Jobs will be front and center to deliver all the wonderful new toys and updates we can expect this year. What we all hope to hear about is the wildly anticipated Apple 3G phone which may or may not be revealed today. The buzz across the internets is that MS will try to one-up their counterpart by announcing a Blu-ray compatible Xbox 360 before the 10 AM(PST) keynote in San Francisco. Its 12 PM now on the east coast. A couple hours away. What do you guys think?
You may have noticed I’ve been a bit absent the past few days. If you were jumping for joy, you’ll be glad to hear I’ll be down for the count for a bit longer. My Dell laptop decided to kick the bucket, a mere 2 weeks after the warranty expired. So I’ve decided it’s time to take the plunge and switch to Mac.
I picked up a 15″ MacBook Pro yesterday from my local Apple Store. I got home to discover that they keyboard intermittently stops working. Just my luck. Anyway, I’m heading back to the Apple Store in a bit to exchange this out for a different laptop. I should be back in full force tomorrow afternoon/evening.
While I’m away, if anyone has an recommendations for cool apps for Mac, or good versions of FTP or SSH software, let me know in the comments.
In case you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, we setup a custom Webclips icon for the devices. With the firmware updates released yesterday at MacWorld, you can now add Webclips, or shortcuts to web sites, on your homepage.
I went ahead and created a cool little icon to display on the devices instead of showing the page contents. So go fire up your iPhones and iPod Touches and add us as a Webclip. You know you want to
If you’re like me, you’re waiting ever so patiently for Steve Jobs to take the stage and announce new features for the iPhone and Macs. The keynote is about to begin.
If you want to check out all the action, head on over to MacRumors Live for an up to date feed on what’s going down. Here’s to hoping we get MMS for the iPhone…
So you have an ipod and are tired of listening to just music, what do you do? Play Sonic of course! Looks like everyone’s favorite spikey blue haired hedgehog is now available on Apple Ipods. You can buy Sonic for $5 or even send him as a gift for those gamers you want to get a Christmas gift for.
I am hoping this starts a big push for more games to come to the Ipod format, but something tells me that this may be a flash in the pan, since there was no support given to an Iphone version of the game.
Hit the jump for a screenshot and the press release. Read More »
We all saw this coming. We hoped it would not, but its here. Total Windows and Mac anarchy. At the beginning, you could not play iTunes songs on the Xbox 360. Now, its a total lockout. According to many people and this recent Neogaf forums post, the third generation, or 3G iPod Nano, and iPod touch along with the iPhone, apparently do not sync with the Xbox 360 and are unable to play the music stored on them. They are detected, but are otherwise useless. My question to the readers, is to confirm or deny this report. I have an original Nano and it works fine on the machine. It seems that only the new products are compatible and only the MS mp3 players will work. Anyone who has the new Apple stuff, let us know!
Well now you can. Following the Giga pets and Nintendogs craze comes Virtual Squirrel from DS Effects, where you have to take care of… you guessed it a virtual squirrel. (Not too creative with the titles over at DS Effects, are we?) You can feed it and care for it or torture the squirrel and starve it, I wonder if you can train it to take nuts out of their shells?
From the official press release:
The objective is to take care of your virtual squirrel. You can clean him, train him, feed him, and make him study, amongst other things. He can die if you let him starve or grow sick if you leave him alone for too long.
The game is available for all java-enabled phones. A free wap version, including Apple’s iPhone, is also available.
If you happened to buy an iPhone before August 22nd, you can now get a $100 electronic rebate form for a future purchase at the Apple Store (either brick-and-mortar or online).
The Cupertino giant posted the online submission form today. Click here to fill it out and get your money back. I got mine already
We're like Spaceballs... we're making Loot Ninja everything. Coming soon we'll have hats, shirts, hoodies, possibly banana hammocks if one Editor has his way...
Check out the shirt prototypes here and the hats here
So you have an ipod and are tired of listening to just music, what do you do? Play Sonic of course! Looks like everyone’s favorite spikey blue haired hedgehog is now available on Apple Ipods. You can buy Sonic for $5 or even send him as a gift for those gamers you want to get a Christmas gift for.
We all saw this coming. We hoped it would not, but its here. Total Windows and Mac anarchy. At the beginning, you could not play iTunes songs on the Xbox 360. Now, its a total lockout. According to many people and this recent 
Well now you can. Following the Giga pets and Nintendogs craze comes Virtual Squirrel from DS Effects, where you have to take care of… you guessed it a virtual squirrel. (Not too creative with the titles over at DS Effects, are we?) You can feed it and care for it or torture the squirrel and starve it, I wonder if you can train it to take nuts out of their shells?
