Game on, for real this time - Nexus One has OpenGL ES 2.0 support

Filed under: Games, Google, iPhone, Mobile, Android

Why am I writing about hardware on Download Squad? Well, because I'm sick and tired of people squinting their eyes at the mobile market in a vain attempt to understand why Apple's tabula rasa has lobbed a shiny multi-touch grenade into the space. U.S. "Droid Does" TV ads are touting all the things the iPhone doesn't do.

But what is it the Pre and various Android-based phones lack? A proper 3D engine that makes it easy for developers to write awesome games in a short amount of time. Enter OpenGL ES 2.0, a royalty-free, cross-platform API for just this sort of work (or play, as it were).

Heck, OpenGL ES 1.1 wasn't too shabby, either, since that is what powers everything before the 3GS and recent refresh of iPod touch models (not the 8GB version, however). The point is that OpenGL provides a known, viable 3D foundation for developers to make games on the iPhone (or anything else that'll throw a little horsepower at it).

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