Within days of arriving in the hands of iPhone and iPod Touch owners everywhere, Firmware 2.2 has been quickly dissected and reviewed. Thanks to a prolonged testing period, the iPhone Dev Team was able to perform a Jailbreak on the still in development Firmware and perfect it once Apple made it available for download. While available for all generations of iPhone and iPod Touch, there are some key differences between the two such as the lack of Google Street View on the later and lack of Emojicon support on non Japanese iPhones. With a simple hack and a quick Jailbreak, all of this can be remedied.
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Introduced at this year’s “Let’s Rock” media event hosted by Apple, all range of iPods were updated and much to the glee of sloganeers, the iPod Touch was befitted with a new design and heralded as the frontman of the portable family. If the “Funnest iPod Ever” wasn’t enough to motivate you to get your game freaking on, then you’ll be absolutely enthralled to know that the latest generation iPod Touch sports a higher clocked CPU and beats out the iPhone 3G for gaming.
Touch Arcade, a Blog dedicated to iPhone and iPod Touch gaming reported the speed advantages of the 2G touch when Thomas Fessler, CEO of Handheld Game Corp noticed the rendering capabilities of the latest touch and how drastic it was when compared to the iPhone. Handheld’s 3D intensive game, TouchSports Tennis, renders differently on the iPod Touch 2G smoothly pushing 1,500 Polygons in a single character but when the same scenario is used on an older Touch, it lags and crashes, the iPhone 3G barely passes.
“Where we can easily display two 1500 polygon tennis players with 32 bones each on the iPod touch 2G and maintain fast and fluid game play, the original iPod touch just chokes, and in some instances so do the iPhones. To speed up the touch, we reduced the players to 800 polygons in farther away moments of gameplay, and are now using 1000 polygon models for close ups, bringing the original iPod touch game play performance level close to that of the iPhone 3G.”
The newest generation iPod Touch’s CPU clocks at 532 MHz up from the 412 MHz clock of the iPhone and iPod Touch but still down from the ARM 1176 CPU’s native 620 MHz speed. However, the 2G iPod Touch could also contain a newer GPU but that has yet to be revealed. A side by side comparison video on YouTube clearly shows the impressive load times of the 2G Touch and in terms of load times, it ranks the highest followed by the iPhone 3G, original iPhone and original iPod Touch.
Via: Macworld
Yesterday Apple has pushed out an update for the Remote App that allows an iPhone or iPod Touch with an active Wi-Fi connection to control an iTunes library on a local network. This latest update, which brings it to version 1.1, also includes Genius playlist functionality.
Earlier last week Apple updated iTunes to version 8 which brought with it Genius playlist creation that generates a list of music that sounds similar to a preselected song. This week’s updates brings the same functionality to the Remote App that unfortunately is not bundled with the iPhone and iPod, however, the new interface lines up more with the iPod UI.
Check iTunes for any new Application updates or hit up the store yourself if you haven’t grabbed a little lazy on your couch action.
Via: TUAW
Apple positioned the iPod Touch as the iPhone without the phone and its price point made it a highly appealing gadget to own. After a drastic price cut and important hardware updates to the iPhone, Apple gave Touch owners the shaft and left it on the back burner for a bit before tossing it off as a clearance item for students who bought a new Mac. Although not as competitive price wise with the iPhone, the new iPod Touch matches up evenly in the price per gigabyte department. Besides a big price cut, the iPod Touch that acted as the iPhone for those not ready to commit has remained mostly unchanged.
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Written by Tanner Godarzi on September 10th, 2008
Posted in: iPod Touch
