Ok, everyone may as well bow down to ZodTTD now. Just after our last post, he goes and blows us away once more. If you didn’t already know, ZodTTD has been working on porting the media player VLC over to the iPhone for the past week or so, and he’s pretty much done it.
There are now tons of supported codecs: FLV, XviD, H264, MPEG4, AAC, FLAC, 3GP, MP3, MPEG2, AVI, VCD, DivX, WMA and WMV.
Wow. Seriously? Wow. This dude is awesome.
We figured we’d take a brake from all of the second-gen iPhone news (well, rumours) and post about something that’s actually quite interesting. Legendary developer ZodTTD has been working on a game pad adapter for the iPhone/iPod Touch, and he managed to get a real SNES controller working on the devices; pretty neat if you ask us. He created a video demonstrating it in use:
The video is pretty long and boring, but you get the idea. This is pretty awesome stuff, and I’d love to use a real SNES controller with my emulators.
Finally, some news that actually has real substance to it. The patent for the highly rumoured “3G iPhone” has finally surfaced, and thus, a hurricane of information has been unleashed. You can view the patent by clicking here, but it is pretty lengthy, so we’re going to take you through all significant things here.
First of all, pretty much all of the features that we’ve been hearing about are mentioned in the document; 3G, GPS, even video chat and IM – it’s all there. Does this mean that it’s now confirmed and not rumour? Technically, no. Apple could list features in the patent that did not make it to the final device, but this is highly, highly unlikely. So if you want our verdict: yes, all of these features are now confirmed. If the features are listed in the patent, that means that they have at the very least TESTED the features out on the phone at some point in time. We can’t think of any major reasons why Apple would remove any one of those features. Now let’s take a look at a few of the less significant mentions…
Instant Messaging Module – probably iChat, we presume?
Blogging Module – this is an interesting one… Have Apple created a first-party blogging application?
Search Module – again, we’re not sure, but this sounds like Finder on the Mac, except for the iPhone.
Another interesting quote from the patent is “an optical sensor is located on the front of the device so that the user’s image may be obtained for video conferencing while the user views the other video conference participants on the touch screen display” – again, this just adds to the solidty that video conferencing is really coming to the iPhone. Now… This plus the IM module detailed above really makes us think twice about the leaked photos from yesterday – they may actually be real.
One thing is for sure – we’ll find out tomorrow!
According to Engadget, a ‘reliable source’ has provided them with details of the second-generation (3G) iPhones firmware – which has apparently leaked to certain carriers early.
After significant dissecting of the devices firmware, Engadget state that tri-band HSDPA (3G) and GPS/Sat Nav is absolutely confirmed. Here are all of the technical details:
Just one more day to go until Steve makes an announcement – make sure you check back around 7pm UK time tomorrow!
Well people, Mr. Blury Cam is back with some brand new iPhone 3G ‘spy shots’. Apparantly, the guy who took these photos saw his friend working on a few advertisements for Apples website containing the 3G iPhone, so he took some quick pictures and uploaded them to Flickr.
We have to admit, these are probably the best pictures we’ve seen so far. It could easily be real, but again, there is absolutely no way to know for sure until Monday comes.
Here are a few more of the leaked images…
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