Mar
24
2010
A 5 minute video showing Opera Mini in action on the iPhone. It remains to be seen if this will ever make it into the App Store.
Tag: "3GS"
Mar
23
2010
Opera Mini for iPhone submitted to the App Store
Jonne Eilimö | March 23, 2010 13:55 UTC | 0 comments |
Opera Mini was today submitted to Apple’s App Store. The software was announced at Mobile World Congress 2010 in February. Opera Software claims that their browser will perform up to six times faster than Safari.
Check out the full press release and video after the break.
Mar
22
2010
Microsoft just released an update to its Bing search app for the iPhone. However, the app is still only available for U.S. residents.
- Bookmarks and improved web browsing: you can now bookmark maps, directions, web sites, businesses, search terms, even the weather report, and get to the bookmarks right from the Bing home page.
- Sharing: you can share interesting results with your friends using e-mail.
- Copy and paste URLs: you told us and we listened! We now support copying and pasting URLs.
- Parental control on search settings: we helped make search safer by letting you set a SafeSearch level and create a passcode so it can’t be changed. This is a benefit for parents who want to make sure the kids are only going to safe sites on their devices.
- Search history and private search: you can now view and edit your search history. You can also search the web without saving your history on the device using private search.
- Explicit location setting: let your iPhone find you or set a specific location so you can search near there (super useful when you’re going to travel to another city and want to find things around there).
- Tighter integration of contacts in directions: Bing now autosuggests contacts from your address book when you enter start and end locations in directions.
- Support for 1st generation iPod touch devices: we now support all versions of iPod touch.
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Feb
21
2010
Video Chat feature coming to future iPhones
Jonne Eilimö | February 21, 2010 15:34 UTC | 0 comments |
In the depths of the current iPhone SDK lays evidence of a Video Chat feature, that will most probably be used in future iPhones. This means that we will in fact see a front facing camera on the coming iPhone.
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Feb
19
2010
Here’s an interesting passcode hack for the iPhone. Actually, this one isn’t even a hack, since it has been made with Apple’s own tools and can be used on a non-jailbroken device. 9to5mac used Apple’s Corporate Development kit to make this.
The hack will let you use letters in your passcode, and it forces you to combine numbers and letters in it, and will not let you use sequences of any kind. For instance ‘abcd1234′ is not allowed, when ‘adbc4132′ is allowed.
To apply this hack, you just simply have to open this file with your iPhone. If you ever need to get rid of this, simply go to Settings/General/Profiles/9to5mac/ and remove the file.
Feb
18
2010
Apple raises 3G app download limit to 20MB
Jonne Eilimö | February 18, 2010 17:31 UTC | 0 comments |
Apple has quietly raised the app download limit over 3G to 20MB. According to 9to5mac this update has hit at least Germany and Canada, and I can confirm that it is also 20MB here in Finland. So I guess we could call it global.
Feb
15
2010
Google Nexus One vs iPhone 3GS – 3D Performance
Jonne Eilimö | February 15, 2010 09:38 UTC | 0 comments |
A 3D performance comparison between Google’s Nexus One and Apple’s iPhone 3GS.
The test I’m showing here is a pretty typical 3D game scene. It contains a 3D environment and multiple animated 3D characters. The GPU is stress tested due to the high number of polygons in the scene and the CPU is stress tested as it is calculating the bone & skinning of the animation.
Starting up the test on both devices shows that the iPhone 3GS runs at 60 frames per second (fps) and the Nexus at between 30 to 35fps. As we add more woman models until we get to 8 models we see that the frame rate has dropped to 29fps on the iPhone and approx 21fps on the Nexus. Therefore, on the face of it, it seems the iPhone is 138% faster in this scene.
Check out the video after the break.
