Hi Dark, Yep, £529 for the 16gb iPhone 5 on these here shores if you buy without a contract... ouch.
Something that's worth keeping in mind is that iTunes 11 drops sometime soon, later this month if my memory serves, and there's been quite a big interface overhaul. The new UI seems less cluttered visually, though of course it remains to be seen whether the simplified workflow will also be an improvement for keyboard and screen reader users. Just thought it was worth mentioning, as depending on how fast you move to investigate the dreaded iTunes, you might have to do it twice lol. Scott On 10/10/12, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Well, this morning I just got a free play with an Iphone 5 running voice > over. > > On a basic level I was impressed. Some of the gestures I found more > difficult than others, for instance the three finger swipes I didn't quite > get the kknack of, but others were quite natural and I suspect I'd get more > used to it in time. The functions of the phone seemed fairly doable too, > indeed for kicks I tried searching the ap store for king of dragon pass, > managed to find it and read the game details, (I didn't play it because > obviously the chap who's phone I was examining didn't necessarily want the > game), though sinse it's games and gamebooks I'm mostly interested in on the > Iphone, I was pleased that was doable. > > the internet I found a little more problematic, I tried searching for > audiogames.net, and had a bit of trouble navigating google correctly. > > I also got a play with seri which seems a usefull system, though I was > disappointed when i was testing it's speech recognition that though it did! > know the word dalek, it didn't recognize cyberman and read it as spiderman! > :D. > > I also asked about commands to flick voice over on and off, lock the phone > for making phone calls etc, and all of that seemed doable. > > The only thing I didn't like the sound of is the fact that I can't just copy > my music and audio books onto the phone, sinse one reason I wanted one was > to serve as an effective music and audio player, but apparently apple > objects to this so it requires silly itunes, which i'm obviously going to > have to investigate. That is the one downer I found, indeed I might > considder just buying an mp3 player separately to do that job if Itunes > isn't going to behave. > > Voice over did look fun though, and I'd actually love to see some audio > games that make full use of screen position in this way, for instance I can > imagine playing a stratogy battle game could be far easier with a touch > screen sinse you could get physical positional information about the various > units relative locations and the map, similarly to reading soemthing in > braille but with the information being conveyed by audio. > > I'm now of course going to have to check out A, Itunes, and B, pricing, > sinse an Iphone 5 would be very expensive in the region of about 500 quid > apparently, and I'll C, check whether my current phone contract supports the > Iphone and has enough internet to make things work, (thus far I've not used > net so haven't got a very net heavy mobile phone contract, though it is a > cheap one and comes with a lot of free minutes). > > it does however look like a workable solution and a lot of fun, indeed sinse > if everything goes as planned next year I should be studdying voice in > Bermingham conservatoire, I would be doing a lot of commuting on trains, > and it'd be usefull to have something small and portable. > > Previously I've used my laptop, but the battery here is pretty dead, and i > would! like to try a lot of the iphone games, and more especially gamebooks. > > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
