Apple aired their first iPad commercial during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. The commercial shows people using the iPad and going through the various features (iBooks, Videos, Maps, Email, Photos, Safari etc). The song is There Goes My Love by The Blue Van (iTunes link).
Reader MICHAELSD from iphonealley stumbled onto a YouTube video which shows an iPhone running World of Warcraft through an unreleased mobile gaming service called VolleeX engine. VolleeX is an unreleased service still in beta that will allow users to play hardware-intensive games on internet-capable mobile devices.
The VolleeX engine will work by streaming an instance of the game running on a PC to the Vollee servers to be compressed, where it gets sent to the mobile device. The video shows it running over a 3G network as well, and looks pretty smooth doing so. It even alters the game’s interface to make it more mobile-friendly, which should be a definite plus for playability.
We also hear that Vollee, the company behind VolleeX, has a partnership with Activision | Blizzard, the makers of WoW, lending more credibility to the video.
Since the announcement of 3.0, the upcoming iPhone rumor mill is rolling faster than ever! We recently informed you about an OLED and faster internet in the upcoming iPhone and now the rumor has it that the next iPhone will support an enhanced camera with more megapixels (who say these don’t matter ) and finally, video recording capabilities. The current hardware is capable of recording as well (anyone heard of Cycorder? ), but Apple is most likely Read the rest of this entry »
We found a quick video of the iPhone prototype that you’ve probably already bid on. The excitement is palpable as the person on screen clicks his or her way through menu items, checks out mobile web pages and generally does the sort of things that we imagine one does with a test unit. No doubt your curiosity’s been Read the rest of this entry »