EA Games has confirmed the coming of Spore on September while Sega is also busy with their Super Monkey Ball – two of the many games iPhone users can expect in the next few months, especially with the release of iPhone 2.0.
The games exploit the iPhone’s accelerometers, which detect how you’re tilting the iPhone in any dimensions. iPhone users simply tip the iPhone forward, back, left, right, up, or down to control the monkey ball or to navigate Spore.
With the iPhone’s built-in three-axis accelerometer, a new chapter in handheld gaming will soon be unleashed, making the era of the thumb-burning Snake and Tetris obsolete. Read the rest of this entry »
Burt Adams of Michigan emailed us today to ask about the best ways to prolong battery life for iPhone. We have scanned Apple’s website and here are the tips that might be useful for extending the battery life of your iPhone.
Keeping the iPhone out of the sun or a hot car greatly saves your battery life. Heat sucks your battery’s performance the most so better keep your iPhone in a pouch or inside your bag where sun rays cannot sip in.
You should also lock your iPhone when you are not using it (Sleep/Wake button, will do this), especially if you place it in your pocket or inside your bag. Of course, you can still receive calls and text messages even if your iPhone is locked but nothing will happen if you accidentally or unknowingly touch the screen. The light won’t turn on, thus saving battery. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple’s iPhone is set to be released in Singapore by September according to Apple insiders but several Singaporeans now use the iPhone. In the Philippines, iPhone release has not been given dates yet but several Filipinos are now flashing their new iPhone from the US.
Go to a mobile phone store in China or Hong Kong or Thailand and you will surely be offered an iPhone handset. Or, if you are not fortunate enough, you will be offered an iPhone clone - which looks exactly like the iPhone but not really.
The popularity of iPhone and how the hype is played in the press left Asians with no other choice but to buy smuggled iPhones from the US. That should explain the discrepancy between Apple’s announcement of the number of iPhone they produced and AT&T’s number of iPhone subscribers. Read the rest of this entry »
No one from SingTel or Apple would deny nor confirm reports that the iPhone will soon be released in Singapore through SingTel, but insiders said the two companies have already sealed off a deal.
The report of SingTel sealing the deal with Apple came a few months after SingTel’s Group CEO Chua Sock Khoong confirmed SingTel was in talks with Apple, and expressed confidence in winning exclusive rights to distributing the iPhone.
Sources said retailers expect the device to be priced at around S$690 (US$496) when it launches in September.
iPhone maker Apple is reportedly in discussions with music companies about a radical move plan that would allow iPhone to get free access to its entire iTunes music library as a bundle to their monthly subscription.
While no one from Apple would confirm the plan, executives said the free music access is currently stalled due to the amount Apple is offering to music labels. Sources said music labels are tilting to Nokia due to the phone maker’s offer of $80 per handset as compared to Apple’s $20 per handset offer.
The plan of Apple came after several researches showed that owners of mobile phone and other audio devices are willing to pay a premium of up to $100 in exchange of unlimited access to music for the lifetime of the device.
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said the Adobe Systems’ Inc.’s popular Flash media player doesn’t meet his company’s performance standards for video and therefore, will not be used for the iPhone.
Jobs said Adobe’s Flash Media Player that was formatted to personal computers “is too slow on the iPhone”. The iPhone has been praised for its ability to show videos across the full length of the 3.5 inch device, a much larger display than most mobile phones with video capability.
But since the iPhone launched in June of 2007, the way in which it plays video has been criticized for its limited practicality. Users can play Quicktime videos online, but not Flash or Windows Media Video files.
