We’ve mentioned Ngmoco’s first iPhone 4 game two days ago, and boy it looks beautiful. The killer feature it’s not how it looks, but how it works.
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iPhone 4 and Gyroscope: Meant for Gaming [Video]
iPhone 4 Vs. Flip Ultra HD Vs. 3GS
iLounge has recorded 6 videos comparing the video recording capabilities of the iPhone 4 to those of the old iPhone 3GS and Flip Ultra HD. 3GS aside, the Flip Ultra HD has almost the same quality of the iPhone 4 (they both output 720p video) and better saturation but, like Gruber points out, the iPhone 4 wins in moving and panning.
Check out the videos embedded after the break.
Twitterrific 3.0. Reviewed.
I was looking forward to Twitterrific 3.0 for iPhone. Since Twitter (ahem) bought Tweetie from Loren Brichter, I feared no one would take the effort of developing a great Twitter client for the iPhone anymore. Fighting against the man with a paid / unofficial app? Many developers gave up, and I understand them.
The Iconfactory team didn’t gave up though. They announced a native version of Twitterrific for iPad and it was released on day one. A great app, but I eventually ended up using Osfoora HD on the iPad, more on this in a moment. After the iPad client was released, they announced their plans for the future: a completely revamped version of Twitterrific for the iPhone and a much needed 4.0 update for the Mac.
With the 3.0 version of Twitterrific for iPhone, they decided to take a radically different approach and streamline the user experience by removing all those unnecessary features that made Twitterrific 2.0 a feature creep. I think it worked.
Retina Display Under the Microscope
PhD candidates Ryan White and Bryan Gauntt of Penn State University sent Engadget some interesting comparison images of a Retina Display under the microscope together with a 3G screen.
“According to their measurements, the iPhone 3G’s pixels measure 13 x 40 microns, while the iPhone 4’s measure 6.5 x 20 microns, which adds up to exactly four times as many pixels.”
We know it’s impressive, but if you want scientific confirmation - just check out the images after the break.
FarmVille for iPhone Now Available
Announced at the last WWDC keynote in San Francisco, FarmVille is one of the most anticipated apps for the iPhone. Apple has finally approved Zynga’s game, which is now slowly propagating in iTunes.
As announced by Zynga’s CEO Mark Pincus at the WWDC, the iPhone version of FarmVille comes with iPhone-specific features such as push notifications, so that you won’t miss anything of what’s new in your farm.
It’s already live in the New Zealand store. [Link]
Remove Recents Hides iOS Apps That Don’t Support Multitasking
The most important feature of iOS 4 is multitasking and, look, we get it. You’re now able to quickly switch between apps and go back to the exact place you left off the app. It’s cool, and it works good. The problem is, there are too many apps that still don’t support the new multitasking APIs, and it’s kind of annoying to get these apps in the multitasking drawer, tap on them and find out that they haven’t been updated for iOS’ persistent state.
Fortunately for jailbroken users, the solution is in Cydia.
iPhone 4 Craziness: Standers Collapse, Conan Drops in the Line, iSpazio Flies to Paris
Oh, what people do when a new Apple device is coming out. After all, this time we’re talking about the iPhone 4, with its amazing new Retina Display and sleek new design - how can’t people go crazy about it?
TUAW has collected some pictures of people standing in line at the 5th Avenue NYC Apple Store, and man - CoCo himself dropped in to say hi to some Apple fans. Check out the pictures below. Also, another guy standing in line collapsed in the middle of the street and emergency personnel had to close the street while he was treated. As for people standing in line, the first iPhone 4 camper was spotted last week. I wonder if he’s still there.
But you haven’t seen anything yet. My good friends over at iSpazio and iPadevice decided to fly to France (Paris) to buy an unlocked iPhone 4. Here’s the liveblog that has been going on for 2 days now, and if you happen to speak Italian it’s pretty amazing. We’re embedding a couple of photos and videos below.
People do crazy stuff for Apple. We’ve got proof after the break.
A Review of the iPhone 4 By an Early Adopter
Sometimes it’s just about luck. Sometimes, it’s about FedEx shipping your iPhone 4 early. No, I didn’t get an iPhone 4 and neither did Cody. But my friend Jeff Broderick of ekindesigns is among those few people in the US who got a unit early and managed to successfully activate it via iTunes.
As he told me that he got an iPhone 4, I asked him to report his first impressions to us. More than just a few impressions, he actually took the time to write down a brief review for MacStories, without entering all the hardware details (which you’ve probably already read in Engadget’s insightful review yesterday) but focusing on how this new device feels instead. Then he sent us photos (snapped using his old iPhone 3GS, may God bless it) and screenshots of iOS and some apps running on the iPhone 4.
Check it out after the break.
iFixit’s iPhone 4 Teardown Confirms 512 MB of RAM
The new iPhone comes out tomorrow, but iFixit has (as usual) managed to get a unit and tear it down. The result, unsurprisingly, confirms the rumored 512 MB of RAM, a bigger 3.7V 1420 mAh Li-Polymer battery and dual purpose steel frame / antenna.
Check out the full teardown here, and a few pictures after the break.