iPhone Killer Apps Section!!

If d whole app takes a wooping 2.9gig off then whats d mem size of your iphone, i guess 8gig don't u think thats too much for one application considering also d ram usage when running it.

Check out this video of Quake 3 Arena running on an iPhone. The dev has even gotten multiplayer to work. Looking great!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/kvci1vTXyUo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/kvci1vTXyUo</a>

Download mp3s directly on your iPhone
http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15756

genesis4iphone 

Sega Genesis and Sega CD emulator

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/dnMjyj4kiro" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/dnMjyj4kiro</a>

The reason apple may never make progress in d mobile arena is simply selfishness, they want everything to themself. Imagine u get an ipod and u have to register to itunes to buy mp3 for  $0.99 a song, how many nigerians are that patient to go through those processes when there are terabytes of free mp3 online calling to be downloaded. Next they make the unpopular iphone and turned their backs on all OEMs, no third party window for users to enjoy applications except those made by apple for apple.i never liked that phone anyway. Since u've all visited sites like dotsis,gsm0,mosh,dedomil,mobilust how many iphone apps did u find there? The iphone is a media hype, and besides d ipod i never liked apple products even the Mac sucks. With giants like Nokia running this industry there will be no room for apple, lets not even delve into comparing the N95/N96 and iphone. Sentiments apart iphone is crap.

Super Monkey Ball running on the iPhone SDK

Demonstrates the tip of the iceberg of what the iphone's GPU can pump out

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/4a6-cUOPoLY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/4a6-cUOPoLY</a>

@bimbor
I do not intend to continue this argument with you. More informed people than yourself have weighed in on this topic and have come away impressed. Naijafan, Dual Core and a few others are a good example. I'll just give you a li'l feedback on what you just wrote

1. You never had an iPod before. if you did, you'D have known that you could copy your own music onto it, instead of asserting in an earlier post that all ipod users are forced to buy music from Apple. Why lie?

2. The N95 plays Youtube videos when you're connected to the internet. The Youtube downloader for iPhone actually enables you download the video when you're away from internet. Hence you've got a scource for Offline music vieos. There's no comparison, and i'm sure you'D come to that conclusion if you'D given the matter some thought.

3. Comparing Chinese phones to the iPhone simply because they've got a touchscreen is simply daft and i suspect you know it. I have no doubt you've used a Chinese phone, but i seriously doubt you've EVER held or used an iPhone before. It's like saying 3650 = N95 simply because they both use variants of the symbian OS

4. You've hyped the N96 several times in this forum, each time painting a picture of it being 'innovative'. Where's the innovation? 16GB? There are 16GB phones out there, including the iPhone. DVB-H? GPS? innovation? I've used N-series handhelds before, and they are generally more of the same thing.

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Finally, the fact that there are few iPhone owners in NL doesn't mean it's an unpopular phone in Nigeria. Thousands have been sold so far, and loads more are being sold daily. Everywhere i turn i see people carrying one. PErhaps it's a reflection of the social circles you travel in, but i see iPhones moving like wildfire. not bad for a phone that was initially sold locked.

I do not intend to have a 'nokia vs iPhone' argument with you. You're not qualified to cover this issue sufficiently, and it's been overflogged. This topic is not titled 'Iphone is the best in the World'. It was opened to showcase some cool apps available on the iphone, and i'll continue that.
If you really feel aggrieved, open another thread.

iDialer
SwirlyMMS
MMSD
ShowTime
Labyrinth
PDFViewer

those enhance the overall user experience 4 me.

@naijafan
I would say that having ONE device is pretty much better than having a plethora of phones from the end users point of view. At least we know Apple's committed to developing the iPhone as a powerful handheld platform.

Nokia, on the other hand is committed to bringing out N96 et al, then they go on to the next one. The only thing linking these new N-series phones is N-gage, and you and i know that that Ngage is unlikely o get as much developer support as the iPhone appstore.


This is going OT! I don't want to turn this into a Nokia vs iPhone pissing contest.


lol. Sure got the idea that bimbor had never used an ipod before. Dude needs to realise that this is an online forum, no need to lie to make a point.

My 30GB ipod's screen just cracked. Dammit! probably too expensive to change the screen, so i'll wipe it clean and use it as an external HDD.

it ranks of pure jeaousy most of these ranters that go on and on about how crappy the iphone is as compared to nokia, and its evident because their dissing is so full of illogic and ignorance you can't help but wonder if they had ever held the darn thing or are just echoing other forums.

iphone is not just about the superb touchscreen, its not about 160ppi or 3D of core animation or cocoa or core video or core sound or  many of the awesome technology we interact with.

the iphone is amazing because of the power of its operating system which has never yet been seen in a any mobile phone, and which may not be seen in the next four years.

first off, apple began with a sound foundation: os x, which is the most sophisticated OS around. any other phone manufacturer aiming to make an iphone killer will have to 1, use symbian 2, use windows mobile, 3, use android and other forms of linux embedded, or 4, build a new desktop-level OS from scratch.

the first 3 options speak volumes about their limitations because we grew up with all kinds of implementations of them and none comes remotely close to the power and capabilities of osx. the fourth and last option is what informs my contention that it will take at least 4 years before the competition catches up to the iphones software. vista took six years to be what it is, so if microsoft were to customize vista for say a new iphone-like phone, they already have six years experience with the os and two decades of windows experience.  therefore at most they will need 2 years or more to properly customize vista fo the new platform.
  
nokia, sonyericcson, motorola et al will have to build from scratch (which may take anywhere from ten years of false starts, delays, alphas, betas, RC1s and 2s, version 1, 1.01, RCMs etc)

here is what steve jobs said at macworld 2007 when the phone was first unveiled( i have the videocast): " the iphone is an interplay of hardware and software that took the best part of 5 years of research. the actual implementation and design took 2 and a half years." so that leaves nokia, say, like 7 and a half years behind in terms of this sort of development.

don't even bother saying that nokia has been making phones for a generation: yes they have, but their experience boils down to making phones that all share similar interface for almost half of that generation with little or no innovation in their field.

meanwhile apple has been making extremely powerful hardware and amazing software for almost two generations.


the iphone was time magazines gadget of the year 2007, as well as a slew of other publications and media that variously awarded it innovation of the year, invention of the year etc. in case you are not aware, even the blackberry crowd find the iphone popular, so all you "iphone is not business oriented" mob can go hang.


in essence, mobile phones are moving beyond simply making calls, they are becoming more of portable computers that seek to be the hub of our digital lives, and none is more of a portable computer worthy of the name than the iphone. symbian phones are just "smart' phones, iphone is much more.


@texazzpete

I'm glad you got this thread up and running. i was sceptical of emus but seeing thsese sceenies, I'm jumping in. best app, dropcopy (if you use a mac). its a sort of balckhole, drop a copy of an app/file in one phone (or mac) and it appears in the other. great way to share content.


pdfviewer doesnt work for me, i keep my pdfs in /applications/pdf but they don't appear, kept it relative to / and still no show. but tried a safari plugin for 1.1.4, typed 12.7.0.1 and voila! it works!


_{i use mac a lot, and i love it. I'm an unashamed fanboy}

***holds biro and paper to write down names of those tex has converted into iPhone owners.

tex small small o, shay after i see all those screenshots, your intention na to make me throw way my nokia abi? 

i shouldn't have come near this thread by this time of the night, now when i wan go sleep na so so iPhone go dey ma dreams 


@Neotony
what do u have against the concept of short posts? come, how many words per minute do u type? 

lol
Dual Core, glad to see you're back.
make the switch now. I can assure you, by August this year you'll see screenshots that'll make you green with envy 

i use PDFViewer for PDF docs I have had on my laptop, and which I regularly use as reference.

Well, now since there's a file:// protocol fix for the Safari, you can use the Safari plugin, but PDFViewer serves its purpose well. I didn't bother with the PDF/DOC/XLS Viewer because of the extras. I don't want a web-server running on my phone, and certainly not PHP.

Neither do i.


Lol; please buy me one na.




@naijafan please educate them.


Thats one of your probs ure slow to understand n u never read inbetween d lines. I never compared chinese phones to iphone, i simply told u to stop crying about touchscreen, we all know theres nothing special about it when even those china phones carry them


I know this one thing its better than your overhyped gadget.
Overall lets not brag about our bank accounts on an invisible forum, 99% of d time it makes no sense.
Final Note: Its obvious neither of us can buy d other over so keep your iphone while i stick to my N-series. EOD.

@ bimbor

" Nokia said they didn't care about the iPhone back when it was introduced, not even commented on it beyond a brief "smeh." Then, they presented their iPhone killer concept, a demo that looked and acted exactly like Apple's handset, even while it was "no competition for Nokia." Now they have announced they are "readying" the final product, code-named Tube. They showed it yesterday, while pooh-poohing on His Steveness' toy:
"We've done that [volume] since we've had dinner on Friday."

That SteveBallmerism was pulled out of his hat by Tom Libretto, vice president of Forum Nokia, talking about iPhone's sales, apparently forgetting that taller giants have fallen after similar words. Specially when he is conveniently ignoring that Apple's record volume is just one non-subsidized model that competes with your top of the line—handsets like the Nokia N95 and the N96—in just a handful of countries (and for the longest period of its lifetime, in only one market, which is not as big when it comes to mobiles like Europe or Asia.)

Now, it's not that we don't think Nokia's Tube can't be a great success or that Nokia is in a bad position at all. They are clearly the Número Uno, without a doubt, and for all we know, Tube could be the best thing since either the iPhone itself or the Beamz. However, publicly smashing a newcomer, a still small and young player in the cellphone market, doesn't give credibility to Nokia, as the incumbent player: it gives credibility to the new kid on the block, who doesn't only look smarter and cooler to the general consumer, but now also looks like a clear and present danger to the Finnish company.

And while all that happens in a single quote, there's just a slide to show about Tube and still no planned date for shipment"


http://gizmodo.com/377171/nokia-to-apple-blah-blah-iphone-killer-blah-blah-you-suck

Symbian has the largest developer base. S60 in particular. In contrast to what people felt when S60 3rd Edition introduced Symbian Signed, there are lots of developers out there with applications that run only on S60 3rd Ed.



Maybe i don't get the end user's point of view which you are referring to. I'm sure u know the average individual can't afford the iPhone or the high-end NSeries devices. What does Nokia do? Create phones like 6121 classic with minimal extra hardware, most recent offering from Symbian, and cool connectivity options - at an affordable price. Now, everybody should be able to boast of a smartphone.

Both companies have various business models. As i've always said, lets wait for Apple's next device - of course, they'll love to upgrade their hardware someday. Even RIM created the Blackberry Pearl for users that didnt want to hold the usual bogus devices they traditionally offer and at a cheaper cost compared to their other models at that time.



I wouldnt want that too. But ideas have to be exchanged.