Yeah, the hardware is actually made by HTC but it will be marketed and sold by Google without any HTC branding on it. This phone will be sold to Verizon customers as the HTC Passion sometime in 2010.
You do realize an unsubsidized 16GB iPhone 3GS costs about $550, right? The Motorola Droid without a contract costs roughly $560. Pretty much every high end smart phone will cost more than $500 without a 2 year contract.
I have the Motorola Droid and have been very pleased with it. The screen is a gorgeous 854x480 TFT LCD making it 2.6x higher than the iPhone 3GS' 480x320 screen. This makes web browsing very nice, and Flash Player 10.1 is arriving sometime in the first half of 2010 for the Android web browser.
As far as the hardware specs go, it's the same Arm Cortex-A8 that is in the iPhone 3GS and the same PowerVR GPU with 256MB of RAM just like the iPhone 3GS.
Google Android 2.01...
I suspect this service at 720p will already be full of compression artifacts and latency issues. Not everyone is ready for 720p streaming so doubling the resolution to 1080p right now is not ideal.
Don't forget, the original Alien vs Predator on the Jaguar was actually a pretty great game for its time. It was one of the best games on the system, if not the best.
Android actually supports multi-touch, but does not recognize the multi-touch gestures without additional applications installed. If you install the Dolphin browser on a phone like the Motorola Droid, you get the same pinch to zoom features you get with Safari on the iPhone.
It does not require you to void any warranty; rooting your phone will void the warranty, but that has nothing to do with multi-touch.
For some reason Google has yet to make multi-tough gestures p...
The Wii has 3MB of eDRAM for the frame buffer, which is not nearly large enough for native 720p or higher games. The 360 in comparison has 10MB of eDRAM and developers still have to use some efficient tiling to achieve 720p with anti-aliasing.
My thoughts exactly; this game is a day 1 purchase for me as well. I'm way more excited for this than God of War 3 or even Gran Turismo 5.
I can think of many things I'd rather watch than this.
Grand Turismo 5: Prologue was only around 2GB without the add-on content like intro videos, track videos, etc.
Siren: Blood Curse is 9130MB with all 12 episodes, and it is only available as a download in the U.S. That was a huge mistake in my opinion, as download only games on consoles don't sell as well as retail, and the size probably turned off some potential customers.
My experience with Android 2.0 has been pretty great so far. Apparently Flash 10.1 is coming to the Android browser in 2010, which will be a nice addition.
I own the 5870 and it is not fast enough to run Crysis at 60fps at any resolution I've tried from 1920x1200 to 1280x1024 with antialiasing disabled. At 1920x1200 it only runs around 30-40fps. This is in Windows 7 with a Phenom II 955 @ 3.6GHz with 4GB of DDR3.
Actually, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the highest rated game of all time on Metacritic, with a 99. It's not Metacritic's fault that IGN, Gamespot, Gamepro, etc. all gave GTA IV perfect or near perfect scores. I do agree however that GTA IV is overrated.
Because that's the MSRP?
On paper the PSP is far more powerful than the iPhone 3GS from a graphical standpoint.
The iPhone 3GS is capable of rendering 7 million polygons per second
and has a pixel fillrate of 250 Megapixel/s. The PSP on the other hand is capable of rendering 33 million polygons per second and has a pixel fillrate of 664 Megapixel/s.
Also, the iPhone 3GS has 256MB of RAM compared to the PSP 2000, 3000, and Go's 64MB of RAM. The PSP 1000 only has 32MB of RAM, so Sony re...
Say what you want about Nintendo's most recent games and hardware, but Miyamoto produced some of the most brilliant products the industry has ever seen. You cannot give this man enough credit for his achievements, and for pushing the industry forward.
Uncharted 2 runs at 1280x720 with 2xAA.
Can you imagine how awesome an Orange Box like bundle with Half-Life 3 and Left 4 Dead 2 on a new engine would have been?
Actually, I believe Sony wanted to take all of the royalties for the software sold for the SNES add-on. Nintendo realized that this would not benefit them in any way as Sony was also making the hardware itself.
Nintendo then got in talks with Phillips to make a CD add-on to avoid losing all of the software royalties. Phillips would make the hardware and Nintendo would make the software. In return for this deal, Phillips was allowed to sell 3 games with licensed Nintendo character...