time.com — It's already a groundbreaking phone and digital music player, and now Apple's iPhone is emerging as a popular gaming device as well. Of the 1,300 add-on programs currently available for it, about a quarter are games — as are seven of the 10 most popular selections in the Apple App Store, which opened on July 11. That kind of demand, along with...
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PSP has 2 333 MHz MIPS R4000 CPUs. Not 1. You're also forgetting the second GPU and it's sound processor.PSP also has the 1.8 GB per disc UMD drive.As for (368?207 usable for video), that was at launch. We now have 720*480 video support."No camera"PSP has the Chottocam which works better than iPhone's camera.
wonkavsnAug 5, 2008
Yeah I've honestly never had much of a problem on the iPhone, even when performing tasks that required greater precision. I don't think it's fair to compare the DS's touch screen to that of the iPhone.
cthellisAug 5, 2008
Well, I haven't used the new 2.0.1 firmware enough to judge overall stability comparisons yet, but so far it seems to be pretty tight, reducing lag and improving performance in a number of areas.I don't disagree with your DS/PSP comment, though; the iPhone/Touch isn't positioned to take them on. Just to potentially be able to steal the attention of less "gamer-y" folk, and otherwise potentially expand the market and otherwise directly only steal away a few dollars, rather than their installed base.
pilotheadAug 5, 2008
console*sorry
cthellisAug 5, 2008
Nokia sold 40 million (of 71 million total) smartphones in 2006. (Though as we know, the worldwide description of "smartphone" includes a lot of minor feature-phones with relatively little power, so it's hard to tell what number of those are of consequence, like the n95 and iPhone.) These numbers are from ABI Research.Canalys reports a significant increase to 115 smartphone sales, with Nokia nabbing up almost 61 million of those. But again... it's hard to see what qualifies.The last announcement I recall from Nokia (when they announced the upcoming N96 a few months back) pegged N95 sales at 7 million. (I'm sure the following quarter has been good to them, but I can't find N95-specific features.) iPhone sales were last officially tallied at over 6 million sales (through June 2008), and the 3G launch sold over a million during the launch weekend, and an indeterminate number since then (demand is insane, but the availability isn't there, and we don't know what their production rate is, so...)Outselling the iPhone by millions...? Your wink is a bit misplaced. Especially since you're comparing a phone that launched globally to all carriers to one that is carrier-locked in many major markets, and has only just begun their wide global rollout last month. (And they still don't have China on the roadmap.)Meanwhile, you're ignoring trends that other people are taking into account. The iPhone wasn't a competitor in most markets the N95 was selling in, but now will be. The US is a huge market, but has been trailing Europe and Asia in smartphone/feature-phone adoption rates, but is now surging forward, and is a market which is dominated by RIM, with Apple and Windows Mobile devices trailing, and Nokia barely noticable when compared to what they command worldwide. How do the other N-devices compare performance-wise and feature-wise? What number of iPod Touch sales are there, and how is that trending? There are a huge number of factors in play here, and you are effectively ignoring all of them....and are ignorant of even the single figure you DID mention.
yage2006Aug 5, 2008
Maybe if it had buttons and a analog stick of some kind ? I know there old fashioned and all but the accelerometers and touch screen don't cut it for many types of games.
stumperAug 6, 2008
Nope. It can not.
icyfenixAug 18, 2008
I'm a developer that takes the iPhone seriously.
dubbagolerJun 16, 2009
Casual gaming - *maybe* . not psp style indepth games.Those interested in iPhone Game development can take a look at the course offered at <a class="user" href="http://EDUmobile.ORG/iphone-course.html">http://EDUmobile.ORG/iphone-course.html</a>