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The guys at Touch Arcade are at it again — this time, ZodTTD has ported temper, a TurboGrafx-16 emulator, to the iPhone, and as you can see above, this means something amazing: Bonk on the touchscreen. Sounds like the audio has a few little glitches, but seems like the controls and graphics are working as well as could be asked — even in the slower Landscape mode (with the controls overlaid on the graphics), he says it was pulling about 50FPS.
There’s even an emulator for the TurboGrafx-16 CD PC Engine, as long as you do a little tweaking (and nab the bios from somewhere that may or may not be legal — same for the ROMs). temper4iPhone is still in beta, and just like all of these other emulators and jailbreak apps, we have no clue at all whether we’ll ever get the chance to see them on the (rapidly approaching) App Store. Still, it’s awesome to see — we’ve definitely come a long way from the NES emulator way back when.
We were talking today in Campfire—Giz’s virtual office—about Apple’s newly uncovered patent on a system that warns you about bad quality or dropping cellular or Wi-Fi connections “ahead of time.” Jason thought it could be useful to know that, so you could just avoid making the call. I thought that it wouldn’t be useful at all, because if I needed to call, I would call anyway—and if the connection dropped, I would call again. Are we missing something? Do you really want to know the quality of a call beforehand, especially if you are traveling, and said quality is constantly changing as you move? And don’t cellphones already warn you about dropping calls?
The moment the quality starts going to hell, you know it may drop, so I imagined that if my telephone warned me about it, not only would I not find it useful—as I already knew about it—but I would think it would be totally annoying. Like:
iPhone: “Warning: your call may be about to drop.” Me: “No fracking kidding!”
This Week in Smartphone Schadenfreude, May 31st Edition Not evil twin to theiPhoneBlog.com Week in Review, not an invasion by Fake Steve, This Week in Smart Phone Schadenfreude brings you all the feel-better news you need about the smartphone world outside Apple s current media dominator. (Who knew there was such a world? We were just as surprised! Inelegant, interface challenged, keyboardy, crashy, single-touchy [...]
And the Winner of Japan’s iPhone Sweepstakes is - BusinessWeek Softbank scored a major coup today with its announcement that it has signed on to sell Apple s iPhone in Japan. The deal gives the country s third-largest wireless operator the kind of must-have product that it needs to add to recent market-share
We have heard rumors that the upcoming 3G iPhonewill be thicker because of possible additions like GPS and a larger battery, and we have heard rumors on the other end of the spectrum that say it will be up to 22 percent thinner than the current version. So the question here is: What do you believe? Will the 3G iPhone be thinner or thicker than the current model (and why)?
We were talking today in Campfire—Giz’s virtual office—about Apple’s newly uncovered patent on a system that warns you about bad quality or dropping cellular or Wi-Fi connections “ahead of time.” Jason thought it could be useful to know that, so you could just avoid making the call. I thought that it wouldn’t be useful at all, because if I needed to call, I would call anyway—and if the connection dropped, I would call again. Are we missing something? Do you really want to know the quality of a call beforehand, especially if you are traveling, and said quality is constantly changing as you move? And don’t cellphones already warn you about dropping calls?
