For the last few months, ZodTTD was working on a new Nintendo 64 emulator for iPhone 3GS and the new iPod touch 3G, using the Open GLES 2.0 libraries. He has finally released the much awaited emulator by the name of “n64iPhone”, and it is now available on Cydia for $2.49 on ZodTTD repository.
Mascone Center’s summer schedule has revealed a “Corporate Event”, which is booked to be held between Monday, June 28, 2010 to Friday July 2, 2010. This is usually the time slot when Apple holds its annual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). WWDC event, for the last two years has been home to new iPhone (hardware + software) announcements.
Remember the Multifl0w app for iPhone which we posted about last month? Well a new multitasking app by the name of ProSwitcher has now been released, which outclasses multifl0w in each and every way possible. ProSwitcher is an iPhone app which allows switching between applications running in background in a beautiful Palm Pre style cover flow-like mode. It basically act as a graphical extension to the already popular app from Cydia called Backgrounder to present all opened apps in a tabbed view, similar to the view seen on Mobile Safari browser.
The highly anticipated racing game of this year has finally arrived on the iPhone and iPod touch. EA’s Need For Speed Shift is the thirteenth installment in the long running Need For Speed franchise, and is the second one to release on the iPhone after Need For Speed Undercover. Here is a quick look at all the features that the game has to offer.
In the last quarter, Apple sold out a huge number of iPhone’s, 7.5 million to be precise. The Cupertino based company earned are record US $9.87 billion in revenue and a quarterly profit of US $1.67 billion against the predicted revenue of US $9.4 billion. Major enhancement was seen in its profit share that went upto $1.8, against expected $1.4 per share. This was substantial and solid growth by Apple in this period of economic recession in the world. That’s simply remarkable.
Microsoft has finally released the official Bing app for the iPhone platform. This is infact the third app which has come out of Microsoft for the iPhone platform, the two other being Seadragon Mobile and Microsoft Tag for iPhone. Bing app is also available for Windows Mobile and RIM BlackBerry devices.
It was only iPhone 3GS which allowed video recording and editing along with sharing of your videos with your friends and family. iPhone 3G and 2G could do such stuff only if you jailbreak it, and then install an app like Cycorder from Cydia. But the good news is that Apple has now finally approved iVideoCamera app on the App Store. This app permits recording of videos on any iPhone, including 2G and 3G without having to jailbreak your iPhone.
The folks over at BGR have found out references to iPhone 3.1.3, and the iPhone 4.0 firmware version in their server logs and they seems to be legitimate. While iPhone 3.1.3 will only be a minor release, the 4.0 version certainly denotes a major release version and we can expect it to ship with the next-generation iPhone model sometime in summer 2010. Nothing much is known about about the features that the new firmware is going to offer, but we can expect it to add alot of new features, similar to what was experienced when firmware 3.0 was released.
Here is a head to head comparison between the iPhone 3GS and the upcoming Google phone named as Nexus One. For those of you who don't know, Nexus One been designed by the folks at Google, and the hardware is manufactured by HTC. Nexus One will be powered by the latest version of Android OS and will be sold online by Google, fully unlocked so that you can use it with any carrier you like. It will look alot like HTC Passion/Bravo which is also slated for early 2010 release.
The rumor mill for the next generation iPhone 4G is heating up yet again. According to a tweet posted by Eldar Murtazin (editor in chief of Mobile Review) on his twitter account, Apple has contacted Foxconn regarding orders for the next-gen iPhone. Foxconn is the manufacturer which Apple uses for their various products like the iPhone, Mac Mini and iPod line.
