AT&T has leaked some screenshots of the upcoming phone, hinting at some new features added at the last minute. The changes appear to affect the iPhone's Google Maps application, with two new icons making an appearance at the bottom of the screen.
One of the icons shows what looks like a knife and fork and could mean that Points of Interest data such as restaurant locations could be overlaid on Google Maps. The other icon appears to show a car and could imply that traffic alerts and route calculation could be one of the new features.
The Sydney-based studio Not Doppler announces that Earn to Die Rogue launches for Android and iOS on Thursday, May 9.
Available on iOS and Android, Bawk Bawk Rush sees chickens bravely running the coop to protect them from predatory animals.
Kevin writes: "Multi-GPU gaming was one of those things that seemed like a good idea for as long as it lasted. I mean honestly, the idea of a modular approach to graphics upgrades – be that SLI or CrossFire – was brilliant. I repeat, the idea was brilliant."
Im old school... when i hear the term SLI, I immediately think of 3dfx. I still have a pair of 12mb Monster V2's in an old rig. I never tried out the more modern take on SLI or Crossfire for that matter.
I mean, it was mostly for bragging rights. It was a very temperamental tech that improved with newer iterations, for sure. But folks like myself, who have used it, probably recall that troubleshooting was an integral part of the experience and the value that you got out of the setup was really low.
However, none of that mattered because it looked sick as hell on a well-built PC.
I remember doing my research at the time 😂 I got 2 GTX 460's, as they in SLI were meant to be better than the 480 at the time. Not all games were optimised at the time, which meant some games meant setting them up for 1 card alone. Never forget the time I came home from night shift, turned on my computer like normal, went and made a cuppa, come back and it was still off. Tried to turn on again, and one of the 460's caught fire... good times.
Until it can do 3G so that I can network with my laptop on it, its useless to me. Even though I really really like the way it looks.
Looks great. It has unnbelievable features.
-but i only want to carry around one bit of tech. on me. So I want my phone/mp3 player/sat nav combined.
Nokia can do it. Lets hope the maps mean that maybe Sat-nav IS included.
iPhone looks slick as all out. Sure it doesn't have 3G but it does also have WiFi support so if your by your wireless router no worries. It's all touch screen is awesome (just shows how much ds is not a gimick now) and it has all kinds of other cool features. Yet like the mac it's not really meant for the hardcore buisness folk who deal with Windows and windows only, but that goes without saying
I love the iPhone. I watched the keynote and I was amazed. They really brainstormed big time before starting the project. I am going to get it when I need a new phone (like April '08.)
I believe the new revision for EVDO Revision B has been approved and will see speeds comparable with 3G. Here is an little clip of an article from
CDMA Development Group:
"About 1xEV-DO Revision B
EV-DO Revision B is a CDMA2000 High Rate Packet Data Air Interface Specification that was developed by the Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) standards development organization as an evolution to the International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT-2000) CDMA Multicarrier (MC-CDMA) standard that is recognized by the International Telecommunications Union and also known as CDMA2000 on a commercial basis. The EV-DO Rev. B standard will be published in the first quarter of 2006 under document number 3GPP2 C.S0024-B and by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and Electronics Industry Association as TIA/EIA/IS-856-B.
Revision B introduces a 64-QAM modulation scheme, and will deliver peak rates of 73.5 Mbps in the forward link and 27 Mbps in the reverse link through the aggregation of 15 1.25 MHz carriers within 20 MHz of bandwidth. A single 1.25 MHz carrier and an aggregated 5 MHz carrier in the forward link will deliver peak rates of up to 4.9 Mbps and 14.7 Mbps, respectively. "
Here is the full link to the article:
http://www.cdg.org/news/pre...
So if AT&T/Cingular decide to stick with EV-DO and go with the revision B upgrade, Apple could include the Revision B hardware in the phone much like they did with some of their products and Wifi (802.11n)early than expect. This should be pretty easy to do since EV-DO Revision B is supposedly backwards compatible.
Of course this is all speculation but it would be in Apple Best interest if they are sticking with EV-DO that their phone be Revision B compatible.
EV-DO isn't dead quite yet but who knows what the future will bring.