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If the amount of formats supported by iPod Touch from Apple does not satisfy you, a solution is to find a similar product built directly by the Chinese. We are not talking about clones, but similar products that allow meet most of the demands of customers. Among these is the SmartQ TAO, a PMP (Portable Multimedia Player) that supports numerous formats. The video formats are: AVI (XVID/DivX3.11), RM / RMVB, FLV, WMV, ASF, 3GP, MPEG, DAT and MP4, while the audio: MP3, OGG, WMA, FLAC, APE, AAC and WAV (PCM, ADPCM).

In addition, the TAO has a touch screen to screen 3.3 “with a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels and more than 262,000 colors. The selling price in China is around 68 € (U.S. $ 174).

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If you are among those who feel the need to use the iPod even by bicycle, perhaps using the GPS for maps or to hear MP3s, iBikeConsole may be the solution you seek. The homes are going to hook directly to the central handlebars, ensuring a perfect and secure fastening. The iPod is inserted into the door protected by a transparent plastic weather-proof, if a thunderstorm summer or winter storm there cogliesse surprised.

It launched a new product that Apple and iFixit be devoted to disarm it and show all its components to create guides as dismantle and reassemble. Something very interesting has been found to gutting the second generation iPod Touch, a chip bluetooth BCM4325 Broadcom, Apple, this does not tell us what… Worst of all is that Apple has not listed on their characteristics, so it is hiding for some reason.

It is assumed that it will take a firmware update for you to use, but for what? Maybe for use with Bluetooth headsets? This chip supports Bluetooth 2.1 + ERD protocols and A2DP so that seems more than clear that the Bluetooth headset will work with this player, but perhaps someone else accesorio tracking.

The little Nike + sensor fails to do so by bluetooth, if not for RF and with its own adapter.

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Palringo Instant Messenger is an instant messaging program for iPhone and iPod Touch integrated with the main messaging services (AOL’s AIM, Windows Live, Google Talk, Gadu Gadu, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger and Jabber). In addition to the exchange of small instant messages, the application allows you to send voice messages and images from files or from the camera. They also supported the images personal is not possible, however, view the messages of their personal contacts.

According to the producer, Palringo has a minimum use of data connection: with a single Megabyte you can send and receive the equivalent of SMS 4500, to exchange about 32 pictures or receive 15 minutes of voice messages. Considering that the program is the first version, I would say that its functions are more than enough. The only defect: the program can not be used in the background. This big limitation for this as for all programmes of messaging iPhone, will be placed on the same Apple does not allow the use of multiple applications simultaneously to maintain optimal performance.

Palringo Instant Messenger is totally free and available for download from ‘App Store to page dedicated.

In an interview on Kotaku, the chairman of the American division of Sega, Simon Jeffrey, spoke of reports that are there with Apple, the great expectations placed in ‘iPhone and admits his words, which is powerful as the Sega Dreamcast.

One of the most publicized applications on ‘App Store is their Super Monkey Ball, the game developed by Sega, and according to what was stated, already virtually a success. The relationship with Apple is quantomai florida and the response of the public very rewarding. Admitted:

As device, we believe that iPhone is all that was not N-Gage Nokia.

In addition, the similarity with the Dreamcast, is not random: Sega has in the pipeline ported on iPhone born of many games for this console and confirmed to be already working on projects quite cool. Finally, Simon Jeffrey is convinced that the market for gaming on iPhone will soon become very lively also because, he says, virtually all companies that produce video games are throwing in the business.

An intriguing game and a fascinating puzzle. So one could define Aqua Forest, the application created by Hudson Soft for sollazzare users iPhone and iPod Touch.

This game is in fact manipulating the water, fire and other substances on the screen of the device through the touch. With its five modes available for each of the ten levels, essentially offers 50 different ways to continue the game. It ‘a mode also available free and without any puzzles from cliffs, gives way to sbizzarrirsi with exceptional physical engine in this game.

At the moment, unfortunately, have not yet been announced nor the prices nor the date of launch, but is verisimile that both be divulged details very soon, given that the ‘AppStore is to tapes of departure.