Rock Band coming to iPhone
It’s long been rumored, but today EA Mobile has officially confirmed that Rock Band will indeed be coming to the iPhone. Featuring 15 songs (plus an additional 5 that can be unlocked through play), Rock Band for the iPhone is attempting to recreate the living room rock experience as faithfully as it possibly can while still living in your pocket. Bluetooth multiplayer, World Tour mode, and the ability to expand your Rock Band library through dowwnloadable content will form the basis of what EA hopes will become the de facto music experience on the iPhone.
Jim Whitelaw vs. Apple Canada
Jim Whitelaw is a man with a problem. Jim bought his 10 year old daughter an iPod Touch so that she could play some games without having to break the bank on her allowance. He set her up with an iTunes account, gave her an iTunes gift card, and told her to go at it. Only, she couldn’t. Apple Canada doesn’t allow iTunes gift cards to be used for App Store purchases.
Price Disparities Favor iPhone Users
Software exclusivity is quickly becoming a thing of the past. What once was a killer app for one system or another has now turned into the consumer connundrum of which software to buy for which device and why. Determining a winner based on techincal differences and personal preferences takes time and research, yet one thing has become readily apparent: the iPhone is home to some tremendous bargains on some amazing software. What you may spend $20 on elsewhere could only cost you $2 in the App Store, and it’s entirely possible you’ll end up with a better experience too! Don’t believe us? Take a look at these 5 examples of spectacular AppStore savings;
GPush Review: Bringing Gmail Notification to the iPhone
E-mail addiction is a hard habit to shake. I get more than a hundred emails every day. We’re not talking spam here — we’re talking legitimate e-mails that demand my attention. My inbox is so full, it has it’s own inbox. Given the circumstances, it’s fairly easy to see how I’ve become a compulsive email checker. Watching TV. Writing. Sitting at a red light. No matter what the activity, I couldn’t go more than five minutes without checking my inbox. …and then there was GPush.
Impressions: App Store Genius
As part of the recent OS 3.1 upgrade for the iPhone, Apple introduced a new feature intended to suggest apps based on your previous purchases. Like the similar function introduced to music listeners in iTunes 8.0, this handy little feature goes by the name “Genius.” But does the App Store Genius live up to it’s name like it’s big brother, or is this genius just a C student in disguise?
News: iPhone OS 3.1 now available
Announced at today’s Apple event, the latest iteration of the iPhone operating system is already available on iTunes. OS 3.1 is a free upgrade to OS 3.0 users that offers an improved shopping experience, better sync functionality, and a host of other options and tweaks.
Simplenote Review: No-Nonsense Notes
The market for iPhone note taking apps is huge. While Apple provides a Notes app, it is very basic and only syncs with notes in Mail.app. The de facto third party note taking app for the iPhone/Mac is Evernote which includes syncing between your iPhone, desktop, and the web. Evernote, however, has many more features than most people need from a note taking app. All the extra features of Evernote can cause it to run slowly on older iPhone/iPod Touch platforms. Simplenote solves this problem as a fast, clean, and no-nonsense note taking app for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Ramp Champ Review: Go to the Carnival on your iPhone
If you are a listener of our podcast, you’ve probably heard us (mainly me) getting all excited about the latest iPhone game , Ramp Champ, from the design geniuses at the Iconfactory and the code gurus at DS Media Labs. Well, today is the day we have been waiting for, the app finally released into the app store late last night and I have been playing it pretty much ever since.
News: Apple Denies Rejection of Google Voice App
In a letter written to the Federal Communications Commission, Apple stated that, rather than rejecting a proposed iPhone application for the Google Voice web service—as had been previously reported by many news agencies—the company was “still pondering” the program. This letter is in response to an ongoing investigation by the FCC into Apple, AT&T, and Google, and their connections to and thoughts about the Google Voice service.
News: Plants Vs. Zombies Coming to iPhone
Earlier this year, PopCap Games once again proved their pedigree as the premiere publisher in the casual games space when it released Plants vs. Zombies to PC and Mac owners the world over. A unique spin on the tower defense genre, Plants vs. Zombies once again proved PopCap’s ability to re-invent the wheel. It quickly earned widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, selling “more briskly in its first 90 days of online availability than any previous game we’ve published,” according to PopCap’s VP of Marketing Ben Rotholtz.
Given PopCap’s track record it only stood to reason that PvZ would be ported to every console known to man. That’s why it comes as no surprise when PopCap Games announced this morning that, in addition to an upcoming port to Xbox Live Arcade and a recent retail box release, Plants vs Zombies will be arriving in the AppStore for iPhone users in late 2009.
