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iPhone 3G S is crazy fast at 3D compared to iPhone 3G
They didn't just slap an S on the back and call it a day, you know. Apple has improved the 3D performance on the 3G S by including a more powerful graphics processor. According to John Casasanta, the speed increase is up to four times that of the 3G. But don't take his word or these OpenGL ES speed tests as proof -- check out the video and see for yourself.On a related note, we hear that Apple has done "even more" than we can publicly disclose around speed improvements on the device. That could mean there are further software updates that may make the 3G S even faster. That's the kind of thing Apple loves to do, isn't it? Just look at the Snow Leopard marketing around it being lighter and more efficient. I've usually had (often temporary) system speed increases with updates as well, so here's hoping there's some unused horsepower under the hood just waiting to be unleashed.
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John M said 6:54PM on 6-22-2009
Now the question is when a iPod Touch S comes out, it looks like the iPhone/iPod Touch could easily go head to head with the PSP/Nintendo DS as full fledge portable gaming platform at this point.
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shaunisadirty said 11:28AM on 6-23-2009
Ummm hardly, keep wishing.
VanillaSpice said 9:41PM on 6-24-2009
shaun - why don't you listen to developers (you know, the people who actually program these devices) like the renowned John Carmack who declared the iPhone “more powerful than a Nintendo DS and PSP combined.”
That was before the new 3G S was released. It might have been a technical exaggeration, depending on which particular numbers you want to focus on, but his inference is clear.
The iPhone has the two necessary things - graphics speed, and developer support - needed to compete with the dedicated systems, so it is a "reality" and not a "wish" that it is going to compete with them.
Max Gilchuk said 6:56PM on 6-22-2009
It will be interesting to see what apples does combat Microsoft's ZuneHD (not that it had a chance). I wonder if they will unlock the 720p video capabilities of the 3G S, assuming thats even possible!
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SpinThis! said 6:58PM on 6-22-2009
> That's the kind of thing Apple loves to do, isn't it? Just look at the Snow Leopard marketing around it being lighter and more efficient.
Well it could also mean your code sucked from the beginning. 3 times faster! How quickly we forgot about OS X 10.0; it took until 10.1 to make it useable.
To be fair though, WebKit (the rendering engine behind Safari) has always been about speed. In their regression tests, they don't implement *any* new code if it slows down page rendering.
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Jesse said 7:00PM on 6-22-2009
NEON specific framework optimizations? NEON seems fairly flexible and can be used for anything from compression / decompression algorithms to audio / video acceleration and 3D graphics. Even supports 64-bit integer data.
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drunknbass said 11:52PM on 6-22-2009
best comment of the day lol!
Adam Hinds said 7:28PM on 6-22-2009
man...
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jbrown510 said 7:38PM on 6-22-2009
First kudos to taptaptap for showing this video even though they were using unoptimized code that makes there app look lame on the 3G... most developers don't have the guts to do something like that.
Second, I highly doubt apple will ever unlock 720p. The obvious questions being: "Why would you want 720p on a mobile device?". "Would you really want to buy all the hardware you'd need to output the signal to a 720p display?", "Could the dock connector is even handle that bandwidth?", and finally "Wouldn't decoding 720p devour that little iPhone battery in about 15 minutes?".
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Galley said 9:36PM on 6-22-2009
So I could watch the same HD video podcasts on my iPhone and my iMac.
drunknbass said 11:54PM on 6-22-2009
oops i meant to reply to yoou about the shitty code lol.. oops..
ps. awesome comment!
astrosaurus said 7:44PM on 6-22-2009
At first I really wasn't all that excited for the release but now with all of these speed tests coming out in addition to ATT being cool with current contracts I right on the brink of getting one.
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jbrown510 said 9:02PM on 6-22-2009
While AT&T might be "cool" in letting people get another subsidized handset a few months early they are TOTALLY SCREWING everyone without a contract (PayGo / Pick Your Plan)
SaintStryfe said 10:16PM on 6-22-2009
The best demonstration was the game Oregon Trail. On my iPhone 2G it was painful to play with long, long load times. On the iPhone 3G, it is a plain joy.
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webterractive said 11:05PM on 6-22-2009
Wow I think we have a winner here, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 better just move over it's over it's over. Come'on seriously, IT'S JUST A PHONE but idiocy knows no boundries.
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Jon said 11:39PM on 6-22-2009
Are you slow? Computers can run skype to make phone calls, does that mean they're "just phones"??
Alberto122 said 1:10AM on 6-23-2009
Not good news for the Apple CEO, apparently he is not in good health.
http://managersmagazine.com/index.php/2009/01/discurso-de-steve-jobs-fundador-de-apple/
We hope he improves
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Think Adrian said 2:32AM on 6-23-2009
The article is from January...
smash579 said 9:14AM on 6-23-2009
yeah Alberto. Steve died back in February, get with the program.
Brian (redban) said 6:07AM on 6-23-2009
Katamari on iPhone 3G was a clunky, slow, fun sucked out of, stale monkey fart. With the new iPhone 3Gs its not only fixed, it crazy fast! I expect 3GS only games in the future.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB9zpgVWXvY
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