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@hayprof
I've already opened a new thread for iPhone apps as u advised.

if you know how to delete threads, let me know.

@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.

Super Monkey Ball running on the iPhone SDK

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

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bimbor:
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.

1. You do not HAVE to buy music from the itunes store. You can easily copy your entire mp3 library to your iphone. This is the same model that works with the ipod, and they've sold over 100 million ipods worldwide. Obviously you've never owned an iPod.
The itunes store is simply a music store, and buying songs at 99 cents a song is an excellent business model for millions of people around the world who are basically honest.
If you still insist Apple are selfish because there are terabytes of music waiting to be illegally downloaded, it's your call.

2. The iPhone is only 'unpopular' in Nigeria, and that's because we're unreasoning Nokia fanboys. It's sold over 4 million units in the US. is that unpopular? It's the fastest selling smartphone in the US, and it's sold more than the N95 8GB in that territory. There are loads of 3rd party apps available online on Installer. All the apps i posted above, none were made by Apple. Even the Youtube downloader (which, incidentally can't be found on any nokia N-series phone) was written by a 16 year old boy called Max Weas.
The SDK has since been released, and with the impending release of the new firmware 2.0 and the App Store, lots of amazing apps are on the way for the iPhone. I'll post vids below.

3. Mac sucks? Please. The Mac OSX Leopard is hailed as an extremely splendid OS. Most reviewers even preferred it to Vista. I doubt you could afford a Mac anyways.

4. I don't go to dotsis or any of the other sites to get iPhone software. I can easily go to Hackintosh, Modmyiphone etc to get announcements on new iPhone software. To get iPhone software i don't need to go to any site. All i need to do is launch installer and download/install the latest 3rd party app. Simple. Unlike you, i do not use a warez site as a benchmark for quality.


5. If Nokia is so good, why wait for the iPhone to start the UI revolution before churning out a half-hearted touchscreen OS for their symbian smartphones? Where's the 'innovation' you praise to high heavens?


i understand where you're coming from. even with an iPhone you wouldnt know where to start, since you're so scared of change. Many people like myself have since come to realise that these Nokia/Samsung/Ericsson phones are mere iterations of previous versions, and once you strip away the veneer they're more of the same. The iPhone isn't perfect, but it's a damn good phone, with damn good hardware, backed by the most powerful OS seen on any mobile phone ever.


PS: Get an iPod. They're kinda cheap now.

ifele:
My name is Ifele I AM a super-nationalist. Cameroon is no probs. We can defeat them.
They have a military force of 25,000 we have 70,000+. I even beat up one of them on the street
a couple of years back. That oil belongs to Bakassi people and all of us tru black bloods. This is not
the time to pretend you are white. Yu aint white. White civilisation is about white women fucking dogs and horses.
White has no fucking moral superiority to tell us to leave Bakassi for fascist wannabe Cameroonians.

Racist, immature retard!!

@redsun
You sound like someone who has been forcibly indoctrinated, like someone who's taken a 'holiday' in one of Mao's 'correctional and re-educational' camps.

Too much canned rhetoric, too little intelligent reasoning.

Introducing MXtube, the first native Youtube video downloader on a mobile phone.
Simply search for any video, tap on it and download, even over a cellular connection (GPRS).

Video below.

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genesis4iphone

Sega Genesis and Sega CD emulator

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnMjyj4kiro[/flash]

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

Not too many people know of the thriving iPhone application community. The iPhone's 667Mhz processor, 128MB RAM and PowerVR MBX 3D GPU lends itself handily in the running of several console (and computer) emulators.
Few of them below.

Other thriving emulators on the iPhone include a NES emulator and a SCUMVMM emu (for lucas arts games)

To download 'em, simply add http://zodttd.com/repo/ to you installer to get them.

Playstation
Emulator: psx4all
Status: Version 0.10. Decent compatibility, varies with game



Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)
Emulator: snes4iphone
Status: Version 1.0. Great compatibility.


Game Boy Advance
Emulator: gpsphone
Status: Very Good compatibility, sound enabled

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

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvci1vTXyUo[/flash]

funkybaby:
Cant you see you are the only one hyping this iphone? You just dey console yourself. We both know that you would have gotten "madder" applications if you were using a nokia. Not forgetting the hassles involved in getting compactible applications that really work on iphone and not some applications that only work on paper or on your computer screen. Anyway,just like you've been adviced, open a dedicated thread for iphone third party applications that REALLY WORK.

Actually i'm not the only one 'hyping' this phone. There are others out here using 'em.
I've scanned the next two pages on the phone section and i'm yet to see any Symbian app approaching some of the thingsi've just posted.
Speak for yourself when it comes to 'hassles'. It's far easier to install apps on an iphone via Installer than on any Symbian device. You can easily even install apps away from home with ease.

I personally have seen Nokia owners 'consoling themselves' after they've seen what i can do on my iphone. At the moment i'm downloading Youtube videos directly on my iphone, Downloading Mp3s directly from Seeqpod to my itunes library, intermittently running GBA and Playstation games and browsing Nairaland. Try that on any symbian device.


Y'all don't get it, do you? Nokia churns out millions of phones, they could care less about what you do with it. You're on your own. Even the N95 has a successor coming out soon. Apple's just got ONE device and they'll push it to the limit.

Not interested in starting a nokia vs iphone war. There are far, far more people than you think using iPhones now as the price drops sharply. Pretty soon you'll be the one looking enviously.

hayprof:
The way 4ward !

To eradicating Topic litters

lol! The most effective only way to eradicate 'litters' would be to cut down on all the 'free browsing tricks' topics.

redsun:
Read the book,The Black Peril,White virtue-Sexual And Racial Crime In Southern Rhodesia by Jock McColloch,a more or less white believer who could not but give a faint picture of the brutallity of the white settlers on indiginous africans,and this continues till present day and yet africans still see whiteman's food basket as blessing to africans,hungry mamafuckers who can't feed themselves just because they don't believe.

How can you solve a problem you don't understand?africans are living in a limbo,decieved by organize religions and psychological traumas as a result of colonial brutality and deceits

Here's the issue: You're eating 3 square meals while people in Zimbabwe are starving from lack of food, from crippling food prices. It's easy for you to pontificate and blame 'whiteman' for Zimbabwe's woes, but everyone who genuinely feels for the people know that the majority of their problems come from poor leadership.

What's most important for you? To vindicate your philosophies or to consider the poor people suffering in that country? I don't give a shit about any book. neither do Zimbabweans. All they want is food and economic stability.

Focus on the issue at hand. Show us all how Blair and Bush et al made Zimbabwe's soil infertile.

hayprof:
@pete, Just Open a Iphone thread, and post all related stuffs

I hear you! first time ever two iphone threads are on top on NL and you're complaining

Lol. Let us iPhone geezers have our moment in the spotlight. Happy weekend all the same

Anyone know how to embed a Youtube video in this crazy site?

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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvci1vTXyUo

I have a 16Gb iphone.
before installing i had about 9GB free.

The 2.9Gb is a small price to pay for what the app does.

People babble on and on about financial sanctions on Zimbabwe and other bullshit, but no-one has seen fit to explain this simple thing to me:

Zimbabwe used to be known as the breadbasket of the region. Did any sanctions suddenly make their soil infertile? Did Blair, Gordon Brown and Bush creep in the night and sprinkle sulphur and wormwood on the arable lands?
Did Blair (and the West) place troops at Zimbabwe's border preventing the country from purchasing farming equipment like Tractors, et al?


Zimbabwe cannot feed it's population. And it's easy to see who's fault it is. Someone decided that the only way to solve his country's economic policies was to print more money in higher denominations. It wasn't blair, was it?

Sit at home in your comfortable armchairs and pontificate away. Self-righteousness is and will always be a mainstay for Nigerians. But give thanks that you do not live in a country where a loaf of bread costs 45 million dollars (zimbabwe), and wonder if you will, if you're the kind of person that would do anything to cling to power, even at the risk of seeing his people starve.

Pirates are killing Naija fishermen in droves, the Navy needs to step up it's game.
I have little hope for this 'warship' though. In cases like this, we need to discard fake patriotism and get modern hardware.

I'm opening this topic (atually modified from an earlier one!) so IPhone owners can showcase what they think are the best apps available (or soon to be available) for the platform.

Just installed this great App from the iPhone 3rd party community.
Called Wiki2 Touch, this gives you offline access to Wikipedia's entire database, running on your Iphone.
The database files can be downloaded free online, and then indexed for used with the iPhone app. The english binary for example takes up 2.9GB on my phone.

The Benefits? Without Wifi or GPRS, you have access to the tens of millions of articles on Wikipedia at the click of a button. For people like me that love knowledge, there's little better out there 

Screenshots below

funkybaby:
@dual core

Hi hon. No mind the dreamer. Please be well prepared for this weekend. Take alot of ginseng and a little booze. I want to come back to lagos 'limping' with 'serious ache' between my legs.

hayprof:
Jedi - Jedi

LOOOOL!! Funniest thing i've heard on Nairaland .


@all
I think ceejay hasn't quite gotten the reaction he wanted. . .

Frizy:
This new technology called High Defintion is just a way the oyinbo man is using to collect more of our money.

You do realize that HDTVs are sold everywhere around the world? What's with the 'oyibo' hate?

Frizy:
I have seen movies(HD DVD) played on the so called high-definition TVs(1080i) in many stores but i see no much differences. The sellers told me it was six times clearer than my DVDs on a sony projection screen. All na lie.
Blu-ray, HD-DVD, LCD HDTV. All na story.

Already HDTVs are outselling CRT Tvs in most western countries. people who've used (and own) HDTVs have posted of their own personal experiences, yet you base your opinions on an in-store demo?

Most in-store demos are Standard Def anyway.

As companies develop new and intuitive ways to ferret out pirates, it's a no-brainer to keep a fully legit, licensed copy of your OS running. It's better you at least try to dualboot Xp and Vista (Most new laptops nowadays have the HDD capacity) until you're fully weaned enough to move over to Vista. Deleting a licensed copy and installing a N200 pirated copy of Xp may not be the smartest move.

tobidaflava:
We are talkin off topic.

And what exactly is 'on topic', seeing as April Fool has been over now for 2 days?

@Ejike 3
Not all LCD TVs are THAT expensive anymore

@Kobojunkie
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Vizio LCDs qualify as 'el cheapo' TVs. Samsung, Sony and Sharp are more like it.


@oldie
CRTs will definitely be better from SD signals (like the crap DSTV pumps out) than LCDs.
Don't fall for the Sony Hype machine; Samsung and Sharp TVs are every bit as good. Sharp is the No 1 maker of LCD panels in the world, i think Sony buys from 'em anyway.

Wednesday Guardian usually has some people selling 32 inch TVs for aprox 130k. Samsung, even. Not too shabby.

I myself use a 37 inch Samsung LCD. Works brilliant with Ps3 and Xbox 360


@Neoteny
Dont forget you can also hook up laptops and Desktop computers to HDTVs to get a big picture. . .

If i get needlelady right, because a charity group was arrested for crime we should reject all acts of charity, including the UN sponsored schemes in Africa, abi?


it's never smart to generalize.

Here's an interesting take from Soccernet's insider

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=522275&root=uefachampionsleague&cc=5739&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab1pos2


must Read!!

Can i give you a (maybe signed) copy of 'Queen Primer' instead?

Can't make out what you're trying to say.

akniyalo:
WELL, I live in the UK and it is far better than US

1. The UK has a large Nigerian society with benefits such as: Nigeria food, clubs, parties
2. free healthcare (for both people with papers and without!!!)
3. there is good transportation and very frequent which means u don't have 2 buy a car, whereas in USA u would have to drive everywhere and get FAT!
4. Free education and lets not for get that u get paid 2 go 2 school. #
5. Its more lively than USA
And many other things but people should try and visit the UK, personally life is more easier and much more convenient!!!

You forgot to mention crippling taxes on everything from trash to TV.or the important fact that things are considerably more expensive for transit shoppers in the Uk than the US.

Racist people.

And no, i'm not talking about 'Americans', or 'Westerners'.
i'm talking about the Nigerians on this thread (4him et al) that use the generalizing terms 'Whites' and 'foreigners' in a disparaging manner. That's subtle racism at it's finest.


It might do y'all some good to finally realise that seeing enemies behind every white face was probably what led Zimbabwe and Mugabe down the disastrous path of economic ruin.