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Posts tagged with "iPhone"

N.O.V.A. Updated with Gyroscopic Controls, Retina Display and iOS 4 Support

N.O.V.A. is a first-person shooter for iPhone developed by Gameloft, available both for iPhone and iPad, which has become quite popular over the year in the App Store.

Unlike many other popular games though, this one has just been update to include support for iOS 4 and the iPhone 4. First, you can now control your character using brand new gyroscopic controls, which will make the game feel more natural and intuitive. Then, there are Retina Display-ready high resolution graphics and support for iOS multitasking.

The app is available here at $4.99. Check out a video of the new version after the break.

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Seconds for the iPhone is a Great Interval Training Timer

You’re looking to push every ounce of energy you have into your current HIIT (High-intensity Interval Training) workout. As the intervals pass you buy, the music constantly changes to fit your tempo. One minute you’re being blasted with the relaxing beats needed to calm down and get juiced, the next minute the tempo increases to induce a heavy metal jolt of heart wrenching cardio. This is Seconds, the HIIT, circuit, and fight training utility designed to keep you in rhythm.

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What The iPhone 4 Gyroscope Means for Augmented Reality

When the iPhone 4 was announced, there was one feature many of us were skeptical about: the gyroscope. I think the problem was that many didn’t catch the differences between an accelerometer and a gyroscope, and Steve’s jenga demo surely didn’t help in making these differences very clear. Ngmoco’s first FPS for the iPhone 4 was the first app to truly take a adavntage of the new technology.

Acrossair, developers of many AR apps for iPhone, decided to give us a demonstration of how much their AR browser can be different whether it’s run on an iPhone 4 and a 3GS.

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Incipio Offers Apple Bumper Trade in Program

While Incipio isn’t giving anyone any freebies, they will give you five bucks towards one of their awesome cases. Macworld reports:

Incipio on Monday announced its “We Love Our Customers Too!” Bumper Trade-In Program. The short of the long is: you send Incipio your Apple iPhone 4 Bumper (which you presumably will obtain for free soon), and it will give you $5 off any Incipio product from its online store.

So get a rebate or a free bumper from Apple, turn yours into Incipio, get a $5 dollar coupon, and buy big baby.

[Incipio via Macworld]