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There are so many things wrong with Top Gun that it’s hard to know where to start. Let’s start with the factual inaccuracy of having F-22 Raptors on an aircraft carrier (the Raptor isn’t a naval jet) - why on earth couldn’t models of the film’s F-14 Tomcats have been used? It’s not as if there’s any detailed flight modelling going on, after all. In fact, there’s isn’t ANY flight modelling - you can’t crash, do aerobatics or even, staggeringly, fly in a particular direction. This is strictly a game on rails - which isn’t a compliment for a flying title!

After some cutscenes using characters from the film, you’re thrust into flying action, with the main aim being to swerve the jet up and down, left and right in order to avoid ‘danger zones’ (remember that song fragment from the film?) popped up on a 3×3 grid on-screen. This arcade element might work OK if it wasn’t for the fact that the controls are reversed from every other aircraft game you’ve played in your life. To roll the F-22 left, you have to tilt your iPhone right. To roll right, you have to tilt the device left. See where I’m going with this? The developers would argue that this behaviour is because of the way tilting left makes the on-screen plane graphic move to the left in the camera view, but everything about it just screams ‘wrong’.

In addition to dodging ‘danger zones’, you get to shoot bad guys of course. This being Top Gun, you’d expect screaming fast turns and trying to outwit the opposition through sheer flying ability. Sorry. All that happens here is that bad guys queue up (literally) to appear in front of your gunsight in order to give you something to shoot at. There is no element of dogfighting WHATSOEVER. Oh yes, and you have unlimited ammunition, so you can fire and fire and fire…..

All the efforts of the visuals team (carrier, gunships, landscape, sky effects, explosions and more) are unfortunately all reduced to the level of a simple dodge left/right/up/down arcade game. And even here Top Gun manages to mess up, moving from the trivial training mission to a slightly harder ‘mission 2′ to a ‘throw danger zones and bad guys to shoot at you faster than you can blink’ mission number three. When a game becomes so frantic that you, essentially give up, with seven of the ten missions not even glimpsed, then something’s wrong with the balance of the gameplay.

By all means buy Top Gun for the super stereo music soundtrack, by all means buy it for the nice visuals, by all means buy it for a little frenetic arcade action. But don’t be fooled into thinking it’s a flying game, let alone a flight simulation.

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    * A 32GB model–We’ve expected this for some time. What’s more, it would be welcome.
    * Double the RAM and processing power–Ditto here.
    * A 3.2-megapixel camera with video-recording capabilities–We’ve been hearing about this for a while, as well. But while Apple is at it, we’d also like more camera editing features.
    * Ability to send a pictures and video via MMS–The iPhone 3.0 software update will add the ability to send photos with MMS so videos would make sense too.
    * Turn-by-turn directions–We’ll also get this with the 3.0 update. The feature won’t be native, but it will come through apps.
    * 1.5x the battery life–The short battery life is one of the iPhone 3G’s biggest flaws. I’d look forward to this improvement the most.
    * Apple logo on the rear side will light up–This one is random, indeed. Outside of the, "Look at me, I have an iPhone!" factor I can’t imagine why you’d want this. Plus, I agree that it would be useless and annoying if it negatively affected battery life.
    * Built-in compass–This is a bit random, but anything is possible. You can get limited compass functionality through a compass app.
    * Built-in FM transmitter–This would be a first for Apple, so I’m suspicious. But I’d like it.
    * Other physical changes–AppleiPhoneApps says the metal border might go away and the new model could have a sleeker profile and a rubber tread on its backside. Personally, I think the iPhone is sleek enough already, but some CNET readers have said the opposite. The rubber tread would protect against falls, I suppose. The blog also mentioned an OLED display.

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It is already the third iPhone application of this developer certified by Apple.  Other two applications are the iPhone MMS client and the Mobile ATM both available on AppStore.

With the dedicated TV viewer it’s users can go to the channel guide and back to the zoomed full screen view by rotating their handset. According to Luis Silva Wit software CEO, another unique feature of this application is “the support for Fast Channel Switching, where the user can do zapping of TV channels in an easy way.

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Getting these wallpapers to your iPhone is super easy. After signing up, under each wallpaper the system will show you a short code. Go to pikkoo.com with your iPhone and enter that code there. When you get the wallpaper, just tap on it longer, and choose “Set as wallpaper” from the options.

Best of all, all of this is FREE!

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