iOS recommended games and applications

[Jebus]

"The Impossible Test" is a free app that is quite fun, quite taxing at times as well depending on how logical you are! OpenFeint enabled as well!

[NemesiS]

I jailbroke mine and it's just awful now! So slow. Forever waiting for things to load. Sometimes it just locks up completely and has to restart. All sorts of random crap. I'm really thinking of going back to normal although I will miss backgrounding Spotify and using all the quick SMS features.

I did try that once. It bought my iphone to a grinding halt and just didn't work in the slightest. Lasted all of 10 minutes before I un-jailbroke it again.

Me too on both counts. Tried twice and both times it was just tits. Have just left it as it was intended now. I did used to have a Jailbroken 3G but tbh, i never really noticed any benefit as such. Depends what you use it for tho

"The Impossible Test" is a free app that is quite fun, quite taxing at times as well depending on how logical you are! OpenFeint enabled as well!

Man, i have DL'd most of your recommendations and they are all great as are heaps of others on here.

Favourites atm:

Championship Manager
Plants vs Zombies
Trivial Pursuit
3D mini golf
Tile Storm
Crystal maze
Bookworm
Ragdoll 2
Shift
Lets Golf
Flight Control
Physics
Geared (3D version)
Castle Conflict

[abigsmurf]

The battery drains so fast on intensive games it's not funny. Settlers will drain the battery in under 3 hours.

*edit*

Just looked at the features they've added....

Folders should've been done a long time ago.
The multitasking isn't multitasking, just lets apps run services in the background.
Shutting out all but 3 languages and any APIs other than theirs is a serious dick move. Stops people doing easy ports to android and stops devs porting Flash apps. How does Apple keep getting away with monopolistic practices like these?

[wakka]

If you want multi-tasking on a 3G phone then just jailbreak it now...

Kirikae and Backgrounder are all you need.

Did this on 3.1.2 with my 3G, to echo others it made the phone run like ass and crash all the time. I tried keeping Messages open all the time (on top of Mail, Phone and iPod officially running in background) and it would just crash out. The hardware just isn't fast enough, we always knew that the best features of 4.0 would be limited to the 3GS and the new generation of hardware. I mean we are talking about a two year old smartphone here.

The multitasking in 4.0 is very similar to what Microsoft have been touting for Windows Phone 7 Series, a kind of 'smart tasking' which is more like an instant restore than anything else. Still, way better than using Kirikae /o/

I just can't wait to see the new hardware now. To those who recently got or are getting 3GS devices - what are you doing?! Roll on high res OLED screens and 64GB storage later in the year.

[CMcK]

I think 3GS owners will be OK. The fact it has the same amount of RAM, same CPU and GPU as the iPad makes me think that the next iPhone will merely have a lower clocked variant of the A4 SOC in the iPad.
There wasn't much change between the 2G and 3G models. The 3GS was a big leap from the 3G so a refresh will be adequate for another year.

[wakka]

Oops double post.

[wakka]

Oh, I agree. The 3GS is still a very powerful device, multitasking is really what its insides have been waiting for.

It's just I'd hate to get a product like this at the end of its cycle, knowing financially I'd be unable to get the latest device when it arrives. Especially as I'm sure there'll be another couple of incentive 'extras' only available on the new model which haven't been revealed yet (just like the compass and voice control stuff on the 3GS). But then again I'm a technology freak who needs the latest version, haha.

[ChrisF]

I just gave 4.0 a go... other than the game center thing, and it being a bit quicker, there really is nothing on offer for 3G owners at present. Most things will kick in with the opened up SDK that allows access to calendars and the like. Just sticking 3.1.3 back on now.

Re any new hardware, it's been mentioned several places on the net today that there is more than likely to be a new iPhone this summer. Given that a lot of 3G owners had 2 year contracts and a lot of them are up soon, Apple would be foolish to not have new ones on the horizon.

Either way, I emailed Steve Jobs to ask him Doubt I'll get a reply!

[Silvergun X]

One for the Bemani fans here.

I've been playing a huge amount of Dance Dance Revolution S+ on the iPhone recently. From what i've seen, it's received almost no coverage.

It's exactly the same as DDR S, but the S+ version has a DDR store where you can download the proper notecharts to other DDR songs.

When it first came out, it received almost no coverage whatsoever due to the extremely poor selection of songs you could download. However, I just decided to check it randomly as I was getting into DDR S, and a HUGE selection of songs have been added from different versions of DDR!

Max 300 made it in, all the PARANOiA's have made it in, Fascination MAXX has made it in, Chaos has made it in, all the decent songs have made it in and it's awesome now.

It's also quite pricy at £1.19 for a 3 song pack or 59p per song but I couldn't help but buy absolutely tons of them.

[toythatkills]

I got the non-DLC DDR when it was on sale for 59p. DDRS+ just seemed absurdly expensive, could probably get a console version and a mat for all it costs!

When can we expect Espgaluda? Midnight?

[Silvergun X]

When can we expect Espgaluda? Midnight?

It came out in NZ around 11:30pm. Like an excited child on Christmas Eve i'm eagerly checking the iTunes score every 15 minutes.

IS IT CHRISTMAS YET

[toythatkills]

Well it's there, and the item description's all in Japanese...

But won't download yet!

[KusoGaki]

Funnily enough the Japanese iTunes has it's description in full English... xD

It doesn't seem like you can buy it now even though it's up (or maybe it's just me having trouble), keeps popping up with 'Purchase of this item is not available, item is being modified. Please try again later'

=_=

[teddymeow]

Is it on the iPhone App Store?

If so what's it called as I can't find it.

[SuperBeatBoy]

Espgaluda, you will only find one item even then the title is in japanese and it won't let you purchase or download it.