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CardJoe · 15th Dec 2008, 12:53

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/12...s-iphone-app/1

Microsoft has announced the launch of Seadragon Mobile, an image viewer available - for the moment - exclusively on rival Apple's iPhone platform.

chrisb2e9 · 15th Dec 2008, 12:58

I didn't see that one coming.

bowman · 15th Dec 2008, 15:27

The iPhone's UI does look really nice for a phone, and apparently it can do this as well.

PowerVR graphics has to be something else. Lotsa power, on low power, in a small package.. Shame they don't use them in netbooks.

wuyanxu · 15th Dec 2008, 15:51

that app is superb, the maps makes the default iPhone Map look like a joke.

it's only a simple zoom application, i think they made it exclusively on iPhone is because of the unique multi-touch. it won't be the same experience on normal touch screen or using keypads

Rich_13 · 15th Dec 2008, 16:36

bah it's not like they havn't made software for apple products before...

Bauul · 15th Dec 2008, 16:40

Apparently it's broken now...

Smilodon · 15th Dec 2008, 16:41

I just heard on the weather report that Hell just got it's first snowfall....

Flibblebot · 15th Dec 2008, 17:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rich_13

bah it's not like they havn't made software for apple products before...

Have you tried to use office on the Mac?

docodine · 16th Dec 2008, 00:26

it's a pretty silly app, not very useful

nice to show off though

konsta · 16th Dec 2008, 11:48

I suspect that the reason this is feasible on the iPhone and not Winmo platform lies in the 3d acceleration. Different Winmo phones use different chips for this, and have varying capability. This makes it very hard to account for when coding, and is part of the reason why there is a dearth of 3d games for winmo - even though many current handsets could handle them. In constrast, there is only one (or maybe two) iPhone chipset(s).

wuyanxu · 16th Dec 2008, 13:17

there is only one iPhone/iPod Touch hardware setup. the only rumour is that the 2gen iPod Touch have a little faster ARM processor, which doesn't give any gameplay advantage at all.

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konsta Multimodder Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: London Posts: 92	I suspect that the reason this is feasible on the iPhone and not Winmo platform lies in the 3d acceleration. Different Winmo phones use different chips for this, and have varying capability. This makes it very hard to account for when coding, and is part of the reason why there is a dearth of 3d games for winmo - even though many current handsets could handle them. In constrast, there is only one (or maybe two) iPhone chipset(s).

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wuyanxu quad fuelled, GTX200 powered Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: in a room near Soton Uni. UK Posts: 3,940	there is only one iPhone/iPod Touch hardware setup. the only rumour is that the 2gen iPod Touch have a little faster ARM processor, which doesn't give any gameplay advantage at all. __________________ Death to consolification !!!Core i7 860 @ 4Ghz Cooled by Corsair H50 // Asus P7P55D Deluxe // 8GB of Corsair Dominators @ 1528Mhz 8-8-8-24 // BFG gtx260+ OC2 MaxCore 216SP 896MB // Samsung 64GB SSD // WD Raptor 74GB + Black 1TB + Green 1TB // Corsair Hx620w // Antec p182 // Samsung 24" T240