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Found Footage: TouchSports Tennis '09
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Gaming, Software, Found Footage, iPhone, App Store, iPod touchThe nonstop action of tennis is what makes it so appealing to legions of fans. Now Handheld Games is bringing that thrill to your iPhone or iPod touch with TouchSports Tennis '09 (click opens iTunes). TouchSports Tennis '09 has incredible 3D graphics, and makes full use of the touch and tilt controls in the iPhone and iPod touch platforms. As you can see in the YouTube video below, you use touch to locate your tennis player and tilt to deliver your shots. There are three levels of difficulty in the game, so ...
2nd Generation iPod Touch Faster than iPhone
Touch Arcade —
While we had generally considered the iPhone and iPod Touch to be one cohesive platform, as games have started to push the boundaries of these devices, it has become apparent that there are differences in performance between the different models.
Handheld Games Corp’s CEO Thomas Fessler has reported to Touch Arcade that performance of their 3D TouchSports Tennis game [App Store, $4.99] is noticeably different across models. TouchSports Tennis delivers some impressive 3D rendering (video) and has had to be optimized specifically to run consistently on every device.
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The 2nd-gen iPod touch is notably faster than the iPhone
MacBytes.com —
[image] While we had generally considered the iPhone and iPod Touch to be one cohesive platform, as games have started to push the boundaries of these devices, it has become apparent that there are differences in performance between the different models. Handheld Games Corp’s CEO Thomas Fessler has reported to Touch Arcade that performance of their 3D TouchSports Tennis game [ App Store, $4.99 ] is noticeably different across models. TouchSports Tennis delivers some impressive 3D rendering ( video ) and required optimization specifically to run consistently on every device. Our first step to increase fps performance was to ...
iPhone, iPhone 3G Slower than 2nd Gen iPod Touch
iPhone Hacks —
If you had thought that the iPhone 3G was an iPod Touch and a phone (also GPS) bundled together then you might be right but that might not be completely accurate if you consider performance. Handheld Games Corp’s CEO Thomas Fessler has revealed that performance of their 3D iPhone game - TouchSports Tennis is noticeably better on the 2nd generation iPod Touch as compared to the iPhone 3G, iPhone and 1st generation iPod Touch.
2nd-gen iPod Touch's faster processor gives clue about Touch platform progression
Boing Boing Gadgets —
One of the presumptions about the iPhone and iPod Touch hardware is that the hardware is all essentially the same across the platform. (Ignoring obvious differences like the lack of a phone or camera in the iPod Touch, of course.) But Touch Arcade is reporting that the second-generation iPod Touch has a modestly faster CPU than its predecessors, a 532MHz ARM chip instead of the 412MHz version in the first-generation iPod Touch and the iPhone 3G.
For day-to-day use, this extra 120MHz may not end up making that much of a difference, but Handheld Games CEO Thomas Fessler reports that ...
TouchSports Tennis '09: Impressive 3D Tennis Game for the iPhone
iPhone Hacks —
TouchSports Tennis '09: Impressive 3D Tennis Game for the iPhone
