Second-gen iPod touch critically faster than first
Posted on Nov 24, 2008 under iPod news |The second-generation iPod touch is substantially faster than the first, to the point of affecting app design, a game developer notes. Handheld Games observes that in writing TouchSports Tennis, it was forced to reduce polygonal detail on players to 800 in zoomed-out views, and 1,000 in close-ups. This is because the first-gen Touch “chokes” when displaying the constant 1,500 polygons possible f…