iPhone/iPod Touch Thread

[Misfit]

Just gone to 2.2, hurrah for the 'update all' button in the appstore! 25 apps I couldn't be bothered to sort all done in a minute or two.

[Cloudane]

What the iPhone needs now is a better launcher where you can put apps into categories or something. My pages of icons are getting out of hand...

Yes I know you can kind of simulate the idea by reserving pages for your own mental categorisation, but that requires effort! It's like making porridge, or something!

[Misfit]

What the iPhone needs now is a better launcher where you can put apps into categories or something. My pages of icons are getting out of hand...

Yes I know you can kind of simulate the idea by reserving pages for your own mental categorisation, but that requires effort! It's like making porridge, or something!

Don't they call is stacks or something like that in OSX? But I totally agree, I'd kill for a few folders.

[WiteWulf]

So does anyone think we'll see any interesting iPhone announcements at Macworld in early January?

It's the iPhone/Snow Leopard integration I'm looking forward to like more flexibility with shared/subscribed ical calendars, shared address books with carddav and push notification. Twitter is crying out for push notification.

[Col]

OK here I am, albeit a bit late to the party.

I've been with Vodafone for ever and for the last couple of months they've been trying to give me a Storm for nothing more than an extension to my very cheap tariff. OK, I'll hang on... on release day I went to the Vodafone shop and the service was up to scratch, but the Blackberry storm was shit.

I chipped off to the O2 shop and bought an iPhone. Paid Vodafone 56 quid to settle my contract and give me my PAC, everybody happy.

What a piece of kit. What took me so long?

Indeedy, I really think that the iPhone is the best mobile phone I have ever owned. I love it to bits!!

[Deckard]

I think it is the best tech I have ever bought and certainly the most used on a daily basis.

[Flojomojo]

I did the right thing and took the plunge and bought my own white iPhone and will return my tester unit to work. I'm betting that nothing better will come along for the next few months.

The best thing that could happen in the USA is that another, stronger carrier could get it, but as this page
http://www.thestandard.com/predictions/ ... world-2009
points out, it's not like Verizon is going to drop its CDMA network overnight.

2 years (length of required contract) seems like a long time, but I'm sure it will fly by.

[Deckard]

Christ this is good - Space Deadbeef on the app store, free and an r-type rip off with stunning graphics and very very playable. wifi download only as over 11mb


Love the way you can hold down the touchscreen on your ship to build up the laser or fire individual shots

Couple of good sites to keep up with the apps coming out -
http://forums.toucharcade.com/forumdisp ... 84cb41&f=2

and http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/

[phattslagg]

Yeah, had a quick go at Space Deadbeef tonight, and it's a really nice little game. Seem to be getting a bit of slowdown on the boss screen though (1st gen iTouch).

[Cloudane]

Review of Low Grav Racer here: http://www.appvee.com/t/low-grav-racer

In fact AppVee looks quite good for all manner of iPhone app reviews.

[WiteWulf]

iPhone Dev Team claim to have succesfully soft-unlocked a 3G and will be releasing an app for it soon:

...
We have been working hard on a few other things. The main one being the 3G unlock codenamed “yellowsn0w”. This is now completed and is currently being packaged into a user-friendly application with the simplicity that you see in QuickPwn or BootNeuter.

The target release date for the unlock is New Year’s Eve 2008.
This unlock method is available to iPhone 3Gs that have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier, we did warn you.
The unlock requires a jailbroken 3G iPhone.
...

They also reckon the DFU problems after 10.5.6 are a bug rather than a deliberate measure on Apple's part.

[pjoyce]

Katamari Available on iPhone (article link)

I couldn't see this mentioned after a search, so apologies if this has been posted before.

[Misfit]

Katamari Available on iPhone (article link)

I couldn't see this mentioned after a search, so apologies if this has been posted before.

I was going to mention it until I saw the reviews....!

[owen]

these 59p games are like a small drip-drip draining my bank account

picked up dropship, dr awesome and touch physics last night, all great fun in their own way

just need capcom to start putting out phoenix wright games and i can declare bankruptcy

[WiteWulf]

BTW, Topple is free for the next few days so get it while you can it's a top game that's had the GF swearing and threatening to throw the iPhone across the room (that's a good thing ).