The ipod has dominated the nintendo!

Nintendo profit fell to 133 billion yen last year to 64 billion yen, or 709 million dollars last quarter. These losses were partly due to increased competition, including the iPhone from Apple.

"Mobile game machine Nintendo, DS, also face increasing competition from the Corporation Apple iPhone, which became the most popular platform for mobile games," said Reuter.

The fight against declining interest in its platform, Nintendo DS, the company announced that it intends to launch a new form factor for equipment in Japan in November. LL Nintendo DSi will include a 93 percent increase, 4.2-inch screen and $ 222 will double the price.As Apple continues to gain ground in the portable gaming space, Wall Street Journal also noted that the Cupertino, California, company to enter the console business and compete with the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3 Although the rumor that the past few years, but still be accurate.

For years, Apple Ipod Touch as a portable state slot machine, dubbed "Funnest IPod ever. Update to the latest equipment including the ability to run Open GL ES 2.0, to 50 percent more electricity.When updated IPod Touch introduced in September, Apple highlighted a number of high-profile game releases coming from concessions, which were made at the hardware competitors, including Assassin's Creed and Madden NFL. Although many of the first successful iPhone and IPod Touch games from small developers time, large content creators, such as the name Electronic Arts, Id Software and Konami early flock to the platform this year.Apple also boasted that in September, at the moment, iPhone OS games and entertainment titles in the 21179 compared to 3680 for the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP for 607.

One of the strengths of the iPhone and IPod Touch is the number of budget awards titles available for this platform. Relatively, the majority of games for the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP price between $ 25 and $ 40.

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Ipod Touch and Iphone now has PHOTOSHOP

Adobe has just released to the public its version of Photoshop for Apple's mobile platform. This is compounded by their decision to launch a program to convert Flash files into iPhone compatible files. The only downside is that, for now, only available in the U.S. App Store and no one knows when it will arrive for the rest of the world.
"Too bad I'm on the photo, the colors are horrible!", "Do not worry, we fix it in Photoshop. "I would have liked to be on the trip and leave it at that picture," "good, then I put you in Photoshop and make the joke to the people." Sound familiar? Photoshop has, not unreasonably, in the "miracle" photographic. Any failure or desired change and automatically think of him. Queen is the application for editing and photo retouching.
Well, Adobe once again consider the iPhone to enter through the front door in with his most famous application: Photoshop for iPhone, a dream come true. The application has a sensational finish, a very fast operation, a lot of options, integrated filters and also the possibility of working with Photoshop.com quite transparent.

The application allows us to apply filters or access without more complex options if you like. But Adobe has thought of a much simpler application than that, and yet useful.
At the bottom we have an "X" to cancel any options, an undo, redo, and finally we have a button to save the changes, as long as a new image. Apply the options is very simple, once you select the option you want, need only move the finger longitudinally to apply more or less "choice". To the right increases the values and decline towards the left.

The application is fantastic and virtually compulsory for all photography lovers and people often use the iPhone's camera. To complete the move, the application is free but for now only available in the U.S. App Store.

Another reason to get an ipod touch.

Although Apple has not yet made public, the number of applications approved and available in the famous App Store for iPhone and iPod touch has already went over the amount of 100,000. A great achievement for the Cupertino company, which was confirmed as clear dominating the mobile market in August and already had surpassed the 65,000 applications. Despite criticism of the policy of censorship is evident that developers in the App Store are a powerful ally.
The number comes from the App Shopper application directory, which includes 101,751 accepted tools and games for iPhone and iPod touch. As indicated in Mashable, the number is growing at top speed, as only 3 months ago there was talk of 65,000 applications available on the App Store.
In reality, one must take into account that the number of applications actually available is somewhat lower and reach the 93,035 at the online store from Apple, but officially accepted that barrier already above the 100,000 that demonstrate the success of this Cupertino initiative.
In fact, the offer is clearly superior to its competitors: Palm App Catalog, Nokia Ovi and Windows Marketplace Store are far ahead of his rival, and only Android (and medium term) seems to cope with the might of Apple this area.

Earthworm Jim on the Ipod touch!

A worm sheathed in a special suit. Who could say something like this would be a classic over time and one of the best games in those 16 bit? Then come back.

Earthworm Jim is a platform game with a style similar to Jazz Jackrabbit, in which an earthworm is a current advanced spacesuit that allows freedom of movement in order to rescue a princess from the clutches of an evil queen.

Gameloft (the company that has acquired the rights to the game) has respected the original game soundtrack reversals, but add the option to play any song with this in your iTunes library. The price of Earthworm Jim, which is already available in the Apple applications store, is 5.49 euros and you need an iPhone or iPod touch with firmware version 2.2.1 installed.

Ipod Touch Health Apps

Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch aren't just for entertainment and productivity. Healthcare pros crapper ingest them to improve communication for their patients, and individuals crapper ingest them to intend flourishing and stay healthy.

The App Store has an entire category devoted to Healthcare & Fitness, with myriad entries. We've highlighted apps to support healthcare pros with identification and treatment, and to support individuals with diet, exercise, weight loss, diabetes, and other upbeat issues.

We'll also look at a pair of general-purpose fecundity apps that crapper be very useful in healthcare regimens, and verify a quick peek at how the apps that become free with the iPhone and Touch crapper support individuals verify meliorate care of themselves.

Epocrates
Epocrates Inc.
Cost: Free

Epocrates lets healthcare pros admittance information on thousands of drugs, including doses, adverse reactions, formularies, pricing, and images of pills. It crapper analyse drug interactions for up to 30 drugs at a time. Epocrates also includes a number of medical calculators. For happening the Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator uses a ratio of weight-to-height utilised to gauge obesity, and the Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) calculator measures stages of kidney disease.

Healthcare pros crapper upgrade to a premium version on the Web, providing admittance to in-depth, peer-reviewed clinical noesis on diseases, an infectious disease communication guide, references on lab tests, and information on herbal and over-the-counter remedies.

AllOne Mobile
AllOne Mobile Corp.
Cost: Free

AllOne Mobile is a service for healthcare providers and insurance companies. It's designed to allow those companies to give their individual members admittance to their own upbeat records. The iPhone app allows users to admittance this information remotely, and number those records with healthcare providers and upbeat plans. Users crapper make corrections on their own records, and also share records with new doctors. Users crapper also ingest the app to support insurance coverage, list people to occurrence in an emergency, fax information to a doctor's duty or any other fax number from their ambulatory phone, and more.

Nasa app on the Ipod Touch!

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The NASA App for the iPhone and iPod touch is now available liberated of charge on the Apple App Store. The NASA App delivers a wealth of NASA's assignment information, videos, images and programme updates to people's fingertips.


The NASA App collects, customizes and delivers an extensive activity of dynamically updated information, images and videos from various online NASA sources. Users can admittance NASA countdown clocks, the NASA Image of the Day, Astronomy Image of the Day, online videos, NASA's some Twitter feeds and added assemblage in a convenient mobile package. It delivers NASA noesis in a clear and intuitive artefact by making overpowered ingest of the iPhone and iPod touch features, including the Multi-Touch user interface. The New Media Team at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., matured the application.

"We're excited to deliver a panoramic range of up-to-the-minute NASA noesis to iPhone and iPod touch users," said Gary Martin, director of the New Ventures and Communications Directorate at Ames. "The NASA App provides an easy and engrossing artefact for the public to experience space exploration."

Screens from the NASA for iPhone app.
View Videos screen
View Updates screen
The NASA App also allows users to track the current positions of the International Space Station and added spacecraft currently orbiting Earth in three views: a map with borders and labels, circumpolar satellite imagery, or satellite overlaid with land borders and labels.

Great deal on the new Ipod Touch 3G.

Attention everyone though one of my sources(friend that works at best buy) I have bought many ipod touch's third generation for an extremely low price. I have the 32gb 3rd generation for $260 (retail $300) and the 8GB version for $170(retail $200) this includes shipping so let me know if you are interested in purchasing one. I can be paid via paypal or through Amazon.com or ebay. Please email me at theipodblogger@gmail.com of you are interested.

Ipod Touching takes over Nintendo!

In a little over a year, Apple has gone from an after-thought in mobile gaming to a major force that could dramatically change the direction of that market segment, according to a few industry folks I spoke with recently. While click wheel iPod games served a limited purpose -- essentially to check a box on the list of things iPod's can do -- the App Store has attracted game developers large and small in droves. The new iPhone 3GS and third generation iPod touch, which sport similar technical specs, seem poised to build on that momentum with hardware that surpasses their predecessors and rivals Sony

's PSP and Nintendo's DS. Mad Monkey has one 3GS-only title in development, with a free, simple 3GS-only game, Sketch Hop, already available at the App Store, while Eurocenter's Adrenaline Golf Online offers graphics that scale up when run on a 3GS or third generation iPod touch.
The Next-Gen Transition
However, with the iPhone 3G selling for US$99 and the $199 iPod touch using previous-generation hardware, it will be a while until developers can focus all of their efforts on the current handhelds' capabilities. While Eurocenter and Mad Monkey have begun that process in different ways, other developers plan to move more slowly.
"We are a mainstream game publisher and we aim our games at everyone," Mr. Hawkins said. "We try not to leave anyone out and we want everyone to be able to play. In some cases that means we won’t be on the bleeding edge of making games that use a new feature that is not available to most of our customers."
"For now, the iPhone 3G is king," confirmed Mr. Morrison. "We are still making games with the 3G as our base model. It'll be a bit longer before we build for 3G S capable devices."
"There is a big install base of older devices and those devices cannot be ignored," said Mr. Portha, "so if a developer wants to make money he will need to write two engines and choose the right engine based on the device hardware. From what we can see even many bigger developers are currently not doing that additional work and are completely focused on making one engine which works on all devices, so it will take some time until we see games from those developers which use the full power of 3GS and iPod touch 3G."
He added: "The first candidates for being 3GS-only will probably be MMO games and FPS games. We plan to eventually release MMO games in the next year and will require at least iPod 2G or 3GS because of the higher CPU power. Even games of the quality of WoW(World of Warcraft) are now possible on iPhone and iPod touch and will really be a revolution in the mobile game marketplace.
But will those advantages translate into Apple being seen as less of a cell phone game provider and more of a major player in mobile gaming on par with Sony and Nintendo? Mr. Lamidey thinks so: "We believe 3GS iPhone and iPods, and their future evolutions, will take a major share of the mobile gaming market."
Others I spoke with concurred. "Apple is the 'object in the mirror that is closer than it appears,'" said Digital Chocolate founder Trip Hawkins, also an ex-Apple executive and founder of EA. "It’s funny that Nintendo had just passed Sony in the living room when they both felt Apple breathing on their neck in the handheld market."

Other Factors
Of course, there's plenty else to consider beyond raw technical specs and Apple's current cool factor. "We believe the mobile gaming market is at a crossroads today," said Mr. Lamidey. "While Nintendo and Sony's hardware-based mobile platforms are strong sellers, the iPhone and its software-only distribution has not only successfully conquered a massive audience, it has made developers feel more in control."
Mr. Greenstone pointed out: "The first step Apple needs to take is to provide game players with an input mechanism other than a touch screen. Real games need real buttons and/or joysticks."
Mr. Hawkins noted: "A consumer who wants music, video, movies and lower game prices will certainly get an iPod touch over a PSP that may have more processing power. And Apple’s usability is superior and appeals to a lot of new customers who are not even in the market for a handheld game, and they end up playing games because Apple makes it so inviting, simple and fun. On the other hand, Nintendo and Sony have some wonderful proprietary game brands and their devices are more rugged – much less likely to break if dropped by a child."
And Mr. Portha said: "We can see that currently there are a lot more innovative game concepts on iPhone and iPod touch, comparable to the PC games market in the 90s. There are only very low barriers for entry, it is possible to make money, and there is a lot of competition which is forcing developers to be creative and fast and produce quality content.
"It is much easier to make games for iPhone and iPod touch than for DS and PSP - the development itself is simpler because it uses standards such as OpenGL, and you don't need to be a certified partner of Nintendo or Sony to publish games. You will not only see ports, multiplatform-games and small innovative games, but also games made exclusively for iPhone and iPod touch."
However, he had some caveats: "The App Store currently has still some problems to be fully competitive to DS and PSP though. One problem is that the market is not very big - the iDevices are not only meant for gaming, they can also be used for Internet

and as a music player. The number of games bought on the App Store is only a fraction of DS games sold, and the average price is much smaller. Big publishers will make more money by doing games for DS, where they have control over the distribution, higher prices and less competition."

Rock Band Has arrived to the Ipod Touch!

For all of you that have been waiting one of the highest anticipated games has arrived for the ipod touch and iphone. Rock Band can now be downloaded and played right on your apple ipod touch device! Think about the amount of money parents will save getting this game for their children instead of buying them an instrument! I actually find this game very relieving and the time does fly. If this isn't a reason to buy an ipod touch I dont know what is. The best part about this game is that you can play in these virtual bands with your friends over wifi! No need for instruments or a practice area this can all be achieved over a wireless internet signal.

Get your ipod touch for $177!

Yes you heard me correctly, they are only $177 which includes everything you might ever need for it! Macmall is running a promotion now where when you buy a new ipod touch 3g they will throw in not only a case but a charger and personalized engraving. With all the new apple apps out today there is close to nothing you cant accomplish on your iphone/itouch.

More FM news on the Ipod Touch 3g!

iPhone & iPod blow users could be dancing to a altered tune with a new appliance from Apple. The Cupertino, Calif.-based aggregation is reportedly alive on bringing FM radio to the devices.

The appliance is accounted to accomplish in the accomplishments & will accept the aforementioned functionality as the FM radio begin in the new fifth-generation iPod nano, a antecedent told 9to5Mac. The appliance will aswell reportedly accommodate adaptable iTunes Store purchases. So if a user brand a song on the radio & the base supports tagging, the user will be able to get advice on the song.

"It'll baby to those searching for FM radio on their adaptable phones, but I don't see this as a ample appliance that will about-face humans added against the iPhone in droves," said Ramon Llamas, IDC's adaptable analyst. "This will address to niche-market segments."

Both the iPhone & iPod blow are able to get FM radio signals through transmitters already installed in the devices, but the signals are alone activated in the Nike + iPod application.

Having adaptable admission to FM radio may not be absorbing to mobile-phone users who've added music options, Llamas said.

Free or Fee?

"The iPod touch & iPhone are music-centric, acceptance users to accept to their own music as abundant as they need," they said. "Users accept aswell been advised to a candied appliance from Pandora which streams music to a user's apparatus at low cost."

Mobile-phone users blogging about the account answer Llamas' thoughts on added agency of music, but say accepting the advantage for FM radio is great.

"Much of my alert behavior has been baffled by Pandora, Stitcher & NPR apps, but I'd still like the advantage of application admirable aged abundance modulation, if it could run as a accomplishments app," Michael73 acquaint on the MacRumors forum.

The one concern on abounding posters' minds is whether Apple affairs to allegation a fee for admission to FM radio, or if it will be free.

Another poster, Fleshman03, believes Apple will action it free. "I don't anticipate they'd accept to allegation for this," the affiche said. "While it is abacus new features, it is abacus a new acquirement antecedent (through the iTunes integration).

"They will apparently allegation like 10 dollars for it, though," said affiche Fun 173. "Why do they allegation to accredit appearance things already have?"

Not The Aboriginal Time

This is not the aboriginal time Apple has angry on anchored functionality in its adaptable products. The aggregation didn't accredit Bluetooth functionality in the second-generation iPod blow until nine months afterwards it formed out. Apple still has not enabled the 802.11N+5GHZ wireless networking in its latest iPhones & iPods.

"FM radios accept been about for a continued time in devices," said Michael Gartenberg, an Interpret analyst. "I doubtable that Apple may be enabling a radio that is already present in a accustomed chipset. The key is that if it is there, Apple will accredit it the way they did on the nano with some different & differentiated functionality."

New Wave Radio App on the Ipod Touch!

We have just received advice that the iPhone radio.app designed for home use on the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. From what we know, the app will be allowed to operate in the background, for example, iPod.app and offer the same functionality and FM radio of the new iPod nanos. Source stated that this program can also be included iPod.app before publication.

Raids on this app is that Apple tries to integrate the Mobile iTunes Store purchases on the functionality of the program. For example, if you want a song you hear on the radio (and the station supports tagged and you're in the U.S.) and will be able to push the button and see the song (and all information about him) in the Mobile iTunes store. With a second click, you'll be able to make a purchase. This is a continuation of the Song Selection feature used in iPod nanos. It might even be to add some Shazam technology to assist in these cells, which do not support the tag.

Although not stated, the app will probably be the same functionality Pause Live nanos are now enjoying.

Apple iPod and iPhone can receive FM radio signals in time. Latest generation of the iPhone and iPod touch can even send FM signals, such as stereo. Ability to the iPhone and iPod touch to receive the FM signal is used only for implementation of the Nike + ecosystem on this issue.

It would not be the first time awakened dormant Apple hardware functionality of their mobile products. Apple sometimes decide to go dormant hardware features in their products until they feel the time has come. For example, Apple did not enable Bluetooth in his 2nd generation iPod touch 9 months after discharge. Apple is also not possible to 802.11n 5 GHz wireless network (which we also hope to soon be updated) in its latest iPhone and iPod.

Addition of the FM radio to eliminate the advantage over Apple's OSX ZuneHD Touch line of products.

Vonage now available on the ipod touch!

As more and more U.S. iPhone users will be fed with the AT & T, a few seriously began to consider Apple's iPod Touch as a full time phone.

Trouble is, the Touch has no mobile radio. But couple this with a personal WiFi router, such as Verizon's MiFi, and a service such as Skype, and the Touch may be a viable full time VOIP phone.

CoM reader Alex Bowles' contract, AT & T in January to run seriously, he saw his replacement with iPhone and iPod Touch Verizon's MiFi. Here is what he found.

Verizon's mobile, battery-powered hotspot MiFi can share a high speed connection with multiple cell devices via WiFi. It's in the U.S. sold through Verizon for $ 100. (Requires a two-year contract and a monthly plan costs $ 40 or $ 60 - 250MB or 5GB of data, respectively.)

Pair it with an iPod Touch running Skype, and you have a VOIP phone, plus a high speed, mobile net connection for your laptop (AT & T still does not allow iPhone users to chain their laptops to their iPhones ).

SKYPE VOIP on the ipod touch!

This video goes over how to use skype on your ipod touch and make phone calls to anywhere in the world for free! One more reason to get rid of your cell phone bill and switch over to an ipod touch.

Ipod Touch Price Comparison

I recently took the time to compile a list of the ipod touch's best sellers. Of this list 5 remained as the best places to buy an ipod touch, specifically the 8GB Ipod touch 2nd Gen. The perk to buying online is if you look hard enough you can find coupon codes for the store you want such as macmall or amazon. This takes an additional % off! The list is sorted by best deal and not to my surprise MacMall comes out on top with the lowest price and best package which includes Ipod Touch cases and free personalized engraving. If anyone wants any specific coupon codes just ask!



$177.99
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$171.00 (Buy it Now price)
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iphone vs ipod touch comparison

Well I am sure you all have been wondering why to buy the ipod touch. The first and most important reason, which apple and ATNT do not want you to know is the VOIP functionality. For those who are unfamiliar this is the ability to run applicaitions such as skype on the iphone. Skype is a program which allows users to make calls to one another free on any wireless connection, you also have the ability to receive calls which a standard phone number and call normal phone numbers. All this from any wireless internet connection.

A few problems have arised from this implementation in short because ATNT cannot compete with the VOIP technology. The iphone is superior to the ipod touch in that it has a speaker and microphone built for making phone calls. The speaker if you think about it has to have two modes one for playing music without headphones and one which has a closer connection faint enough to hear but not loud enough for others to hear such as that of a phone. The ipod touch’s speaker is not the same as the iphones even though it was promised by apple. The ipod touch’s speaker is more of a music players speaker so that everyone can hear the music, it was not meant for VOIP. The new 3rd gen was meant to eliminate this small problem but rumor has it ATNT had gotten to Apple and with this power they were able to contain the VOIP dilemma for now.

There are workarounds to making Ipod touch's much like an Iphone. One solution is the headphones with built in mic sold by apple and included on some models.

You can also purchase tiny thumbtack size mic’s for the iphone which only cost a few dollars! The advantages of the Ipod touch is that you do not have to buy a plan to use the VOIP software. Whereas the iphone you cannot buy without a plan and if in fact you find a way it will run you upwards of $500 even on sites like ebay. This defeats the whole purpose of trying to save money by using VOIP.

The clearcut winner is the ipod touch in terms of the frugal factor and dont get me wrong it is not as convenient as the iphone in terms of making calls but it is 1/3 of the price and no monthly bills! I hope this cleared up some confusion on the differences of both devices please feel free to leave me any questions in the comments section.