Now here's an interesting game, Raging Thunder for the iPhone. This early version makes use of the phone's accelerometer to control the vehicles. Video after the break.
..everything's rendered in pretty decent OpenGL 3D graphics as well. It's no GTA4, but you can download it from Installer.app now.
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How about a "robotic watering system that can to take directions from an iPhone?" Look no furthur than Peter's solution. Continue reading to watch.
When Safari's screen state goes from horizontal to vertical, it sends a status update to a web server via JavaScript that sets the watering can up or down.
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The guys over at iPhon.fr apparently managed to get their hands on an early iPhone 3G test unit, and from these pictures, it definitely looks slightly thinner than its predecessor. Click here for one more picture.
We have a hard time imagining that anything like this can come out of Monssieur Jonathan Ive's brain. Or better said, we have a hard time envisioning us buying what looks like a soulless piece of machinery, even while the true soul of the iPhone is its operating system
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The iSwish application brings the "rubber band-like scrolling, jiggly icons, screen flicking, SummerBoard themes, and even simulated multi-touch pinching of photos" you've come to love to any Windows Mobile device. Video after the break.
While you can argue that Windows Mobile is feature-for-feature and spec-for-spec superior to OS X on the iPhone, Apple's mobile UI is certainly more fun to use
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Finally, a Chinese developer has released a handwriting recognition application for the iPhone that provides users with "a writing area that can take over the standard keyboard at the touch of button." Video after the break. Click here for one more picture.
The software is still in beta and it has quite a few errors—it doesn't work correctly in landscape mode and it doesn't appear in Mail.app for now.
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With Fring, a VoIP application, iPhone users can now "place and receive calls via their WiFi connection." Company page. Video after the break.
Besides doing Skype and the like, the app also lets you connect for chats via MSN Messenger, ICQ, GTalk, SIP, Twitter, AIM, and Yahoo!, which should make this an attractive package even if you don't want to harness the raw power of IP telephony
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Finally, iPhone users can now save photos and full screen captures in Safari with Apple's latest beta firmware. No word yet on if these features will make it to the final release.
Well, a reliable source let us know that the image capturing good times don't end there: the iPhone now capable of taking full screen caps (like the one above) simply by holding the sleep button, then tapping the home button
[via Engadget]
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04/08/2008
Yes, a seller is offering a solid white gold iPhone on eBay for a hefty $10,000. It's "skillfully enhanced by 5.65 carats of VS Brilliant Cut Diamonds." Auction page. Click here for one more picture.
The approximately 6 carats of diamonds are pave set in 18k White gold Bezel around the screen of the Iphone as well as the Apple Logo on the back
