Essential iPhone Apps

jmc007 said:
I have not the camera for screenies; it is very good. :D
I've just got up. :p

Look at the reviews on the appstore, should give you an idea.
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I will do :D Any niggles with it?

PiKe said:
Er wut? Just press home and power and it'll screen capture to your photos.
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+1 the screen will flash white. You can the upload it via the photobucket app :)
 
Does the iphone have a dedicated GFX card or extremely fast CPU? Some of the graphics seems very good for such a small device.
 
iphone 3G specs (3GS specs in the source links.)

The CPU is based on the ARM11 core, in specific it is the ARM1176JZF-S. The CPU runs at 412MHz to save power, although the core is capable of running at 667MHz. The ARM11 CPU is a single-issue in-order microprocessor with an 8-stage integer pipeline. It’s got a 32KB L1 cache (16KB for instructions, 16KB for data) and no L2 cache. The ARM11 CPU in the iPhone also has a vector floating point unit, but thankfully the SoC includes a separate GPU for 3D acceleration. You can think of this core as a very high clocked, very advanced 486. And extremely low power. Under typical load, the CPU core should consume around 100mW. By comparison, the CPU in your laptop can require anywhere from 10 - 35W. Idle power is even lower.

Paired with this CPU is a PowerVR MBX-Lite GPU core. This GPU, like the CPU, is built on a 90nm process and is quite simple. The GPU does support hardware transform and lighting but it’s fully fixed function, think of it as a DirectX 6/7 class GPU (Riva TNT2/GeForce 256)
Source:http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3579&p=1
 
Also note that the 3GS is able to use the better graphics processor (?) and use that new Open GL thing for better or improved graphics. ;)

That said, I haven't really seen an App which uses that ability yet. :o
 
sweet, thank you, grabbing now. Appvent have now updated their site :D Free game today is... http://appventcalendar.com/alphabattle/ http://appventcalendar.com/uniwar/ and, as jmc007 has said; http://appventcalendar.com/trigger-happy-christmas/

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as are http://appventcalendar.com/monsterball and http://appventcalendar.com/minim

Seed 1 - Rise of Darkness is free (fantasy RPG), as is tomatoroll, 1945 Ace Destroyer, F.A.S.T. -- Fleet Air Superiority Training!, Aether Fighter, Air Cadets and the stickzombie massacre :o
 
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jojothemonkey69 said:
The Guardian app is out and I really like it. It puts all of the latest articles onto your iPhone and you can view them offline. Perfect for the commute in the morning or if you don't have a reasonable firewall at work. Only £2.39 which is pretty good value considering I normally buy the Guardian 3 times a week.
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It's very good indeed for a v1.0 app in particular, loads of functionality and really nice to use, offline reading as well. Explains why it's taken so long to deliver it I suppose. A must have if you read their papers at all...
 
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