First Look , iPad A few weeks ago, when we first looked at the hybrid iPhone/iPad game Ping Pong Battle , it wasn’t quite ready for prime time; one of the marquee features, video-out from the ‘table’ iPad, wasn’t finalized. With an update to the apps due to hit the App Store sometime today, PPB achieves that milestone and adds some key table tennis industry branding. PPB delivers a ping pong experience by making the iPhones into motion-sensitive ‘paddles’ and putting the table onto the iPad screen.
Remember how awesome and clever Futurama was the other night ? Well, if you missed it, your chances to see it in its original form might be slowly dwindling. It seems that Comedy Central has wiped out the reference in the dialogue to the “EyePhone 2.0.” So, while we don’t have any conspiracy theories brewing about what happened, it’s a pretty odd thing to scrub, and we figure there are two possibilities: either Comedy Central is trying to cover their <censored> on this one, or they got a late night email from…
The Predators movie is set to be released on July 7th, and what would the release of a big budget summer film be without an official video game. That’s where Predators for the iPhone comes in. Chillingo & Angry Mob Games, who if you recall was the team behind Guerrilla Bob , have worked together to bring Predators to the iPhone, but does the game live up to the awesomeness that is a Predator? Predators has you playing a Predator hunting down a number of hunters across twenty-four stages, each stage increasing in difficulty
According to web metrics firm Net Applications , the iPad OS has blasted past Android in terms of usage share in three months: March 2010: Android: 0.07% | iPad: 0.00% April 2010: Android: 0.09% | iPad: 0.03% May 2010: Android: 0.11% | iPad: 0.09% June 2010: Android: 0.14% | iPad: 0.17% This indicates how much browsing iPad owners do, even though the Android platform has vastly outsold the iPad. It also indicates that tablet users may bump up against data caps.
Apple today admitted its iPhones overstate network signal strength and promised to fix the issue in the coming weeks, reports Reuter . It follows complaints about the effectiveness of the phone’s wraparound antenna. Apple said that its signal strength miscalculation dates back its original 2007 iPhone, but it did not directly address concerns that iPhone 4′s antenna design played a role in recent problems. It was the third time in three weeks that Apple apologized to customers of iPhone 4, its latest smartphone, “Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong,” Apple said in an open letter to customers published on Friday.
This is my son, Micro-Bash. He is one year and several months old. And he can unlock an iPhone. More »
I’m amazed at how much press this so-called antenna thing is getting. It’s really out of hand. I think you know my track record. When Apple does something wrong, I’m right there to call them out.
Theodore Gray, the man behind our Gray Matter column and the amazing The Elements: A Visual Exploration periodic table app for the iPad (and in print), has just rolled out a version for the iPhone 4, which packs all the same info and photography into that Retina Display, along with a special trick. Here, Theo gives us the back story on what made this new edition possible. My book The Elements: A Visual Exploration has been available in paper form since last year, and in electronic form for the iPad since April 3rd, the day the iPad was released.
iPhone I happened by a mirror while talking on the iPhone 4 last night and saw my screen lighting up, turning off and lighting up again erratically. I observed the behavior, worst when holding the phone in my left hand, for the duration of the call. I was more than a little irritated, as this was a feature since the first iPhone and, at the time, a big deal Users are reporting buttons being hit as well, which is even worse if you use your iPhone for, you know, a phone . I’m hoping the next OS update will fix it, but in the meantime, let us know in the poll below if your iPhone 4 isn’t registering the side of your face during a call.
iPhone That iPhone on Verizon rumor just won’t die — Bloomberg is now reporting that we’ll see an iPhone on Verizon’s service in January of next year . “Two people familiar with the plans” say that AT&T exclusivity will finally end next year, and analysts say that if that happens, Apple will sell lots more iPhones, up to 3 million more per quarter to Verizon’s 90 million or so customers. Of course there’s no comment by Apple or Verizon so far, and I’ll point out that we’ve heard this rumor time and time and time again — first back in January of this year, then for the new iPhone 4 announcement and WWDC, and now pushed off until next year. Basically, don’t hold your breath.
iPhone “Apple of My Eye” – an iPhone 4 film from Michael Koerbel on Vimeo . It had to happen eventually. Here’s the first (that we know of) movie shot and edited entirely on an iPhone 4.
The iPhone 4 ’s massive launch hasn’t been blemish free, with reports of spotty displays (which seem to have disappeared) and antenna woes being rather widely reported. Well — it looks like it’s possible there’s another issue too — this time with the proximity sensor. Now, we’re no strangers to spontaneously turning on speakerphone with our faces (though admittedly our cheeks are pretty round), so it’s hard to say if this is an iPhone 4-specific issue, but the mounting reports would suggest that it’s possible the new handets sensor is a little bit… over sensitive
We’ve already seen some pretty good iPhone 4 KIRFs , but it looks like there’s a new king in town: the Air Phone NO. 4. Not only does it faithfully emulate the iPhone 4’s hardware design with what we can only assume is the highest quality materials (it even eliminates those pesky seams), but it packs a “non-smartphone OS” that has all your favorite apps including Safari, Mail, “Games,” “Sound” and, last but not least, FaceTime — or a FaceTime icon, at least. Curious to see what other wonders await behind that familiar veneer?
iPhone , App Store I first heard about Pix’n Love Rush about a month ago from my colleague, JC.Fletcher , who described it as “a short, nervous, ristretto version of a platformer … a sort of crossover between Mario and WarioWare, with a pinch of Galaxian and a hint of Game & Watch.” And now that it’s out on the App Store to play, I can say that’s exactly what it is; it’s a weird little mini platform game, with an art aesthetic that might turn off those not versed in gaming history. The basic idea is that you play as a cat-like creature, and you bounce around a randomized series of 125 various 2D platforming stages, collecting good icons and staying away from bad ones. The gameplay is frenetic but forgiving.
Months before it was officially announced, the iPhone 4 was already the talk of the technology world — although not in the way Apple would have liked. Thanks to the gadget blog Gizmodo — who purchased a lost iPhone 4 prototype and leaked photos, video, and other key details of the device to an eager public — Apple’s traditional veil of secrecy was lifted. Unlike previous iPhone hardware announcements, when Apple CEO Steve Jobs officially announced the device at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, there was little in the way of surprises. And yet, that didn’t stop Apple from selling out of its initial 600,000 unit pre-order run in less than 24 hours, or from selling 1.7 million phones in the first three days .
