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2nd Generation iPod Touch Faster than iPhone
MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors —
Mobile developer Handheld Games Corp reported to TouchArcade.com that performance of their 3D TouchSports Tennis game [ App Store, $4.99 ] is noticeably different between models of iPhones and iPod touches. Their 3D tennis game ( video ) seems to particularly challenge the 3D hardware on the iPhone and iPod touch. [image] TouchSports Tennis In part, the differences stem from the fact that the 2nd Generation iPod Touch had its processor quietly boosted to 532MHz. Meanwhile, the iPhone 3G, Original iPhone and 1st Generation iPod Touch run at 412MHz. ...
iPod touch gets Street View, beats iPhone 3G at tennis
Engadget —
... Read - Modification Enables Street View on iPod touch Read - Second Generation iPod touch Faster than iPhone
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News: iPod touch 2G faster than previous model, iPhones?
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
Despite the fact that all of Apple’s iPhone OS devices use similar ARM processors, the second-generation iPod touch has been revealed as the fastest model thanks to a boost in speed from 412MHz to 532MHz. Thomas Fessler, CEO of Handheld Games Corp, has said that the performance of its TouchSports Tennis game is noticeably different across models, with the second-generation iPod touch being the fastest “by far.” Speaking with Touch Arcade, Fessler said, “Our first step to increase fps performance was to introduce hardware dependent levels of detail. Where we can easily display ...
Faster iPod Touch pointing to faster iPhone?
jkOnTheRun —
... much to me for a few reasons. First: I spend $599 for the handset, although I did get $100 back that I put towards the purchase of Leopard. Second, I purchased and pay a monthly fee to Verizon Wireless for a USB 3G adapter... I'd rather have the 3G to use on my other larger screened and more capable devices. Third, AT&T's 3G coverage in my area was spotty at the time. Finally, I felt it was safe to assume that Apple would boost the processor at some point. From the sounds of it, they might have done just that in September, only they did it with the iPod Touch. ...
3D Power Is Highly Varied Across iPhone/iPod Touch Iterations [Apple]
Gizmodo —
... while it's technically good news that the new iPhone is a more powerful gaming machine than the old iPhone, it's an unsettling proposition when you consider that there's only one store for the entire iPhone/iPod touch platform. And if this performance trend continues, which we expect it will, consumers will either be forced to upgrade for an optimum gaming experience or have their smarter, newer hardware dumbed down. Honestly, neither scenario sounds all that wonderful at the moment. [Touch Arcade via ...
New iPod Touch faster than iPhone 3G
CNET News - Apple —
... Apple appears to have upped the processing speed of the iPod Touch in order to help it go after the portable-game market.
Touch Arcade reports that the applications processor inside the second-generation iPod Touch unveiled ...
TouchArcade: Second-generation iPod touch faster than iPhone
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... TouchArcade interviewed Handheld Games Corp's Thomas Fessler, who noted an interesting bit of the company's research: Second-generation iPod touch devices are significantly faster than their predecessors when it comes to 3D rendering. ...
Report: Second-gen iPod touch faster than your iPhone
Infinite Loop —
[image] Touch Arcade is currently running an article regarding the speed of the second-generation iPod touch, and has some curious information. Apparently, the glorified iPod is by far the fastest of all past and current iPod touch and iPhone models, running at 532MHz as compared to 412MHz for first-generation iPhones, iPod touches, and the iPhone 3G. While 120MHz might not seem like much these days, apparently the difference is very noticeable. According to one developer of TouchSports Tennis, the second-gen iPod Touch is capable of displaying almost twice as many polygons ...
iPod touch Speedier Than iPhone?
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
tennis The iPod touch faster than the iPhone? Who knew? With more and more games being released in the App Store, one developer noticed that its latest game release, TouchSports Tennis, got a noticeable speed boost on the 2nd gen iPod touch. CEO of Handheld Games Thomas Fessler told TouchArcade the following: Our first step to increase fps performance was to introduce hardware dependent levels of detail. Where we can easily display two 1500 polygon tennis players with 32 bones each on the iPod touch 2G and maintain fast and fluid game play, the original iPod touch just chokes, ...
2G iPod touch Processor Clocked Higher than iPhone’s?; Benchmarks
iPhone Atlas —
... TouchArcade reports that the second-generation iPod touch’s processor runs at 532 MHz, while the iPhone 3G’s processor runs at 412 MHz. ...
Apple iPhone, 3G, iPod 1 and iPod 2 : whos best gamer?
Phones Review —
... processors, the Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G and Apple iPod Touch run 412MHz while the 2nd Gen Apple iPod Touch runs 532MHz. But the differences on the game stem beyond this processor change as similarly clocked models show.
According to Mobile developer Handheld Games Corp, the fastest game player is the 2nd Gen iPod Touch closely followed by the Apple iPhone 3G, and thus suggest to any serious mobile gamer not to consider the 1st Gen iPod Touch.
Source – toucharcade
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Fastest Apple handheld? iPod touch 2G
The Apple Core —
... [image] A surprising piece of information came out of a TouchArcade interview with Handheld Games Corp’s CEO Thomas Fessle. Fessle noted that performance of their 3D ...
Hidden feature turns iPhone into TV gaming device
AppleInsider —
... was born (video below). Though largely demonstrative, the game uses the iPhone's accelerometer for input and steering while routing the game's video through a video-out cable to the TV. Freeverse noted that the program ran best on the second-generation iPod touch, which includes a 532MHz processor compared to the iPhone and iPhone 3G's 412MHz chip. Even so, Moto Chaser maxed out at around 20 frames per second, making it "nearly playable," according Freeverse, whose producer Bruce Morrison noted that the "norm for commercial games is 30fps, a point at which motion becomes ...
Hidden SDK Gaming Features, iPhone Games On Your TV
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... The following video is a demo that Ars Technica’s Erica Sadun, and Freeverse, makers of Moto Chaser, have collaborated to produce. It’s a tech demo showing off what is capable when applying some of the iPhone SDK’s hidden features. The iPhone’s accelerometer is used for input, which routes the game video output through a connected video cable into the television. Additionally, correlating with an article run by Touch Arcade, Freeverse was able to confirm that the program ran best on a second-generation iPod touch (The new iPod touch utilizes ...
The Next iPhone: Warp Speed, Mr. Sulu
TechCrunch —
... It always seemed a little lame to me that the iPhone 3G featured the same 400 MHz processor that the original iPhone did. In fact, the second generation iPod touch actually received a processor spec bump, while the iPhone did not. This new iPhone should feature a 600 MHz processor. ...
Don't look inside Apple's black box
Macworld —
... and see how much free memory is available on this new device. We’ll know how much RAM the thing has, how fast its processor is, whether or not there’s a Tooth Fairy, the whole story. We already know what the iPhone and iPod touch product lines are made of. Quick: can you name the most powerful device in the iPhone OS product line? It’s been common knowledge for ages that the second-generation iPod touch is actually more powerful than the iPhone 3G, believe it or not. (The 2G Touch runs at 532MHz , versus 412MHz for the iPhone.) But people who aren’t into this stuff — the “ ...
iPhone 3G S Has a 600 MHz Processor, 256MB of RAM, PowerVR SGX
MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors —
... some technical specs about the iPhone 3G S revealing that the newest iPhone carries a 600 MHz processor and 256MB of RAM. 600 MHz is notably faster than the current iPhone and iPod Touch which run at 412 MHz and 532 MHz, respectively. Until now, the 2nd Generation iPod Touch has been the fastest device in the lineup by a good margin. Meanwhile, the previous generation models where also limited to 128 MB of RAM, so the new device offers twice as much which could be a welcome change to developers. The processor/ram information seems to ...
2G iPod Touch Notably Faster than the iPhone
iPod Hacks —
... seem like an App Store game runs faster (or slower) on your friend's iPhone or iPod touch as compared to your own? We have seen mention of this phenomenon and it always puzzled us. Internally, as far as processor core and graphics chipset, it's all the same...right? As it turns out, while all devices utilize basically the same hardware, there are differences that have a visible impact on games and apps that push the hardware between the various models of the iPhone and iPod touch. Touch Arcade recently posted details of a dialog with veteran mobile developer Handheld Games ...
