iPhone/iPod Touch Thread

[teamonkey]

Hah. Although the staff a CPW thought that today was the pre-order date, apparently their computer system and all their call centre staff think it's the 12th.

[Deckard]

Anyone been contacted by O2 via email or phone call about their "upgrade" to a 3g iPhone yet ? I havent
And anyone else heard that series one iPhone prioces on Ebay are rising as the new iPhone cant be unlocked....? As mine will be going on there next week.

[WiteWulf]

3G iPhone can't be unlocked? Don't make me laugh...give it a few weeks and it'll be as wide open as the current model.

[kalmar]

What's the plan for the old iPhone? Totally superceded or continued at a lower price?

[WiteWulf]

You haven't been able to buy them new for a few weeks now so I guess production stopped some time ago and switched over to the 3G model.

[Deckard]

Just had a text from O2 saying they will "write " to me about how I get my new iPhone

[handcircus]

hope this isn't too much of a shameless plug (especially as I haven't been round here much lately) but just released the trailer for the iPhone/iPod touch game I've been working on

http://www.rolandogame.com/

Can't wait to see what else is going to get announced over the next couple of weeks.

[VNVObit]

Just had a text from O2 saying they will "write " to me about how I get my new iPhone

talking high demand
no doubt there will be initially
very tempted by it (although need to check the Ireland bolt-on means I can use my built in minutes)

[Skah T]

hope this isn't too much of a shameless plug (especially as I haven't been round here much lately) but just released the trailer for the iPhone/iPod touch game I've been working on

http://www.rolandogame.com/

Can't wait to see what else is going to get announced over the next couple of weeks.

Great looking stuff. I am looking into iPhone game development. How have you found it so far?

[handcircus]

So far found it pretty good. Its free to get going with the SDK (provided you have a mac, obviously) and only 60-ish quid to get it running on the device. Approvals to the program seem a little slow and random but theres a lot of free resources from Apple.

Objective-C was a new one, but if you've done any c++ its not too hard to get your head around. You can also mix it in with C++ too (I'm using Box2D for the physics). Ive not spend much time with the UIKit stuff for applications but for games its been great - just using OpenGL and the performance has been surprisingly good for what I'm doing. Not tried much 3D stuff with it tho. You might want to have a look at oolong engine - http://oolongengine.com/ Pretty interesting stuff to pick apart there.

[gravy]

That looks awesome How did you make the movie?

[handcircus]

That looks awesome How did you make the movie?

Thanks! At the moment its a real pain you can't capture video from the device, so I can't show any of the accelerometer features. I'm using Screenium to capture from the Simulator - http://www.synium.de/products/screenium/index.html

[Misfit]

handcircus, that looks great!

Love the way developers are getting around the lack of controls.

[PaulCunningham]

handcircus, that looks great!

I'll second that (well more like 4th it now).

I'm undecided whether to have a punt on this iPhone SDK - quite a costly exercise with the upgrade to Leopard to consider too.

[WiteWulf]

That looks amazing, nice programming skills and I can immediately see how the accelerometer controls are working.

Good luck with Locoroco's lawyers, tho...