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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Joe Molotov on July 30, 2011, 11:21:21 PM

Title: What's the best phone for gaming?
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 30, 2011, 11:21:21 PM

iPhone 4?  ???

Title: Re: What's the best phone for gaming?
Post by: cool breeze on July 30, 2011, 11:27:57 PM

yeah, probably.

xperia play has the d-pad and buttons and is probably a good android gaming phone, but iOS has more, better, and cheaper software.  Then again, I've seen nice emulators for android.  iOS might have them too if you jailbreak or wahtever.

I'm waiting for September, hoping for a new iphone.  After several hundred hours, playing mostly tetris and bookworm on my 2005-phone is loosing its luster.  I think I have a single 26 hour long game of Tetris going comprised of a few minutes here and there.

Title: Re: What's the best phone for gaming?
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on July 31, 2011, 01:00:28 AM

Yep.

We have a Droid and an iPhone 4 and anyone that tells you that they're comparable when it comes to games is fucking delusional.  You can get the same emulators for the iPhone that are on Android if you jailbreak it but personally I hate playing those kind of games on any phone.  The games I tend to use the most are quick, simple, and actually designed for that kind of interface.

Title: Re: What's the best phone for gaming?
Post by: FatalT on July 31, 2011, 02:32:15 AM

iPhone. iOS gaming is the best gaming.

Title: Re: What's the best phone for gaming?
Post by: MCD on July 31, 2011, 03:48:46 AM

Windows Phone.

Please support.

Title: Re: What's the best phone for gaming?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on July 31, 2011, 04:47:24 AM

iOS has the best library hands down. So I'd say iPhone 4 is the best for gaming out there at the moment.

Best phone though is the Samsung Galaxy S2, which is Android.

If Sony releases a Xperia Play 2 with dual core, that would be amazing too. Since it has a real dpad. Right now Xperia is pretty lame though.

Android is catching up, but very slowly. It will take years for it to have the same kind of quality library as iOS. Whatever you do, don't buy a Windows phone though  :lol

Title: Re: What's the best phone for gaming?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on July 31, 2011, 04:49:15 AM

Quote from: Borys on July 31, 2011, 03:51:14 AM

There is really no debate: iPhone 4. Don't let the phone poors with Lamedroid tell you otherwise.

I guess it depends if you want to be stuck in phone ghetto with a single core iPhone or want to have a phone that's dual core, 1080p camera, 3D screen (if you want) etc.

Title: Re: What's the best phone for gaming?
Post by: MCD on July 31, 2011, 05:08:00 AM

Don't you be dissin' my METRO phone.

Title: Re: What's the best phone for gaming?
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 31, 2011, 12:17:42 PM

So what kind of data plans do you guys have? 2GB is probably enough, right? Phone newb here.

I'm thinking about getting an iPhone 4 on Verizon.

Title: Re: What's the best phone for gaming?
Post by: demi on July 31, 2011, 12:34:33 PM

You gonna spank it on the go, Joe?

Title: Re: What's the best phone for gaming?
Post by: Don Flamenco on July 31, 2011, 12:34:54 PM

bu bu bu internet told me win7 phone was gonna kill apple

Title: Re: What's the best phone for gaming?
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on July 31, 2011, 12:41:40 PM

2GB should be fine.  I was grandfathered into AT&T's unlimited so I don't pay attention to how much data I'm using but looking at my bill it seems I usually average around 1-2GB a month.  May-July though my data usage shot up to 14GB because I was working late nights and I streamed a ton of Netflix via 3G.

Title: Re: What's the best phone for gaming?
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 31, 2011, 01:19:39 PM

Quote from: demi on July 31, 2011, 12:34:33 PM

You gonna spank it on the go, Joe?

Nah, seems like a waste of good bandwidth.

Title: Re: What's the best phone for gaming?
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on July 31, 2011, 01:22:42 PM

I have a jailbroken iPhone, what are the emulators called and how do you go about getting roms on the system :huh

Title: Re: What's the best phone for gaming?
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on July 31, 2011, 01:35:04 PM

It's been awhile, but search for emulators in Cydia.  I can't remember the names off hand but I had NES, Genesis, TG16, SNES, and PSX emus on my iPhone at one time.  As far getting the ROMs on the thing you'll need open SSH (again do a Cydia search) and download a file transfer program like fugu.  Things have probably changed since the last time I did it (firmware updates kill a lot of that shit) but there's always a way.