The iPhone has a variety of sensors including a light sensor, proximity sensor and the obvious orientation sensor. These sensors help with the daily use of the iPhone, but are all these sensors being used by gaming companies? I’ve taken the time to write a couple of ideas for games that I think would be really fun, and would use the proximity sensor.
The proximity sensor prevents you from accidentally interacting with the screen while the iPhone is pressed against your ear. At about 0.75-inches away, the sensor switches off the display. when you pull away about an inch, the screen switches back on. Here is how this technology can be used for apps and gaming.
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Have you ever been using your iPhone and had to cup your hand around the bottom of it in order to redirect the sound? Well that’s exactly what the Griffin Aircurve is doing. The mold takes the sound and redirects in through a pathway that increases the volume and focuses the direction. It also acts as a stand.
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Documents To Go, the company that brought you Microsoft Office for BlackBerry, Palm, Windows Mobile, and Symbian are moving to iPhone. I’m really hoping that the company will offer copy & paste within their documents. Also, the product is still in development so they might be waiting for Apple to update and implement c&p themselves.
• View, edit and create native Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and attachments
• Supports Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Includes support for Microsoft Office Word 2007 & PowerPoint 2007
• Full featured solution with viewing AND editing functionality
• Supports file and attachments received via e-mail, Bluetooth® or media card
• Unique InTact Technology retains original document formatting of edited files
• Integrated with BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Internet Service for reliable and instant access to e-mail attachments
• Spell checking for word processing files
• Advanced character/font formatting
• Advanced paragraph formatting
• Insert and delete tables for word processing files
• Insert and edit auto bullets & numbers in word processing files
• Sorting in spreadsheets
• Apply cell formatting in spreadsheets
• Insert and delete worksheets
• Insert, duplicate and delete slides in presentations
• English, French, Italian, German and Spanish versions available
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The very first iPhone 3G unlock has happened and now you can unlock yours too. The iPhone Dev Team have been able to break in the baseband processor. If you’re like me and have no idea what a baseband processor is, the dev team fill in the details. It’s basically the core of the iPhone 3G and controls everything about the phone.
Nucleus is the operating system that runs on the PMB8878 baseband processor, we are using minicom running on the iPhone to talk to the baseband via AT commands, the AT command shown is a custom AT command that has been inserted into the PMB8878 that starts an application on the baseband, one of the things that this application does is to lists the tasks (processes) that are running within Nucleus.
Google Earth for mobile is such a great idea and I’m surprised it didn’t come pre-loaded with the G1. Although it isn’t the most practical piece of software in the sense that I am much quicker to use a maps program in my daily life, it’s still a great talking piece.
If you ever meet someone and you’re all “so where you from?” and they’re all “I’m from Nunavut.” Then you can be all “really? Let’s check it out on my phone.”
Google Earth for the iPhone also uses some great user interface design:
Just swipe your finger across the screen and you fly to the other side of the globe
You can pinch to zoom in or out
Double tap with one finger to zoom in and two fingers to zoom out
With the My Location feature, you can fly to where you are in the real world on your phone
In addition, we have over eight million Panoramio photos, which are geo-located photos of places, and you can view any and all of them from your iPhone. Besides being beautiful, high-quality pictures, they’re specifically of places, so you don’t have to see some guy’s family on vacation in Thailand–you can see the beaches, the temples, all the things that give you a real sense of the place.
[Via SlashPhone]
Can you read this QR code?
A Quick Response code is the 2.0 version of a bar code. They can contain much more information than a bar code. The codes are great for the mobile space because with your average camera phone, you can read these codes.
A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The “QR” is derived from “Quick Response”, as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed.
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I don’t mean to link bait or anything with the title, because the answer is just “call customer service“, but what an annoying feature! Here is what happens when I miss a call:
The phone rings, and I let it go because I’m busy with something else.
They leave a voicemail. I see that.
Then I get an SMS notification about the voicemail. Thank I know.
Then I get an SMS notification about the missed call. Yeah I get it!
Then I have all the above information copied in my logs, just in case I somehow got amnesia and forgot.
I’ve recently had the features turned off but I couldn’t help explaining to customer service that this sort of notification process is borderline harassment.
Pageonce is a great way to store all of your accounts that you would like to keep track of. For example, I keep my YouTube, Hotmail, Gmail, Skype and credit cards all on pageonce and I can keep tabs on my social and financial life. The user interface is great for this product too. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good iPhone app to keep track of your online and offline life. Check them out on the app store, it’s free.
Jellycar looks like the physics of Line Rider on crack. The controls look cool too with the pinch being integral to the game. That’s something that I haven’t seen much of in iPhone games: the pinch. In fact, I just thought of an awesome iPhone game. “Pinch Her Bum.” In P.H.B., you use the iPhone pinching motion to pinch as many girls’ bums as possible. I guess it wouldn’t go over too well with women’s rights activists seeing as though the game sort of promotes sexual harassment. But the market is definitely there.
[Via Kotaku]
These kind of articles might dissuade advertisers to post on the site but that’s just too bad. The world needs to know that there is no such thing as free iPhone porn. Sorry. I’ve done a ton of research on this subject. I have gone to every single site that claims to offer “free iPhone porn” in an attempt to write a review and showcase the best one, but none of them offer anything close to what redtube dot com, for example, could offer.
I’m not the kind of guy whose ready to start paying for iPhone porn, so although I’m sure there are great sites out there offering quality paid porn, I’m not down. Pornography should be free and only if you’re into some wild kinky niche stuff should you have to pay. I mean, balloon popping porn is hard to shoot and takes a really creative mind to put together, so that stuff needs funding.
OneTapPorn dot com
Pay site so I’m not interested.
Pornexa dot com
Videos just don’t play. Useless.
Pornhub dot com
It looked promising at first. The thumbnails were all there, the video started to load and then….nothing. None of the videos played.
iphone-porn dot us
This site has gotten a ton of exposure on the Internet and their site looks awesomely optimized for iPhone. The videos all seemed great but when I clicked on one, guess what happened? NOTHING! Again!
mynaughtyphone dot com
This site is another pay site. Lame!
iphoneporngrid dot com
Once I clicked into a thumbnail gallery the screen was just blank. A total waste of time.
This list could go on and on. I really would not recommend paying for one of these iPhone porn sites until we see the free sites prove that it’s worth it.
I need to know what’s going on here. Is it because I’m in Canada? Are Canadians not allowed free porn? Or is this just a big hoax and these iPhone optimized porn sites are just looking for extra clicks by riding the iPhone wave?
