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Hands-on With Infinity Blade 2: The iPhone 4S’s First Graphics Test

Chair Entertainment’s Infinity Blade is already recognized as one of the most gorgeously rendered games on the iOS platform. Infinity Blade 2 takes it to the next level. Mashable got an early preview of the first-person action/castle quest game and, after playing it on the Apple iPhone 4S, found it just as fun and thrilling as ever, but with a level of graphics detail rarely seen in a mobile game.

When Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S in October, it not only promised a more powerful A5-driven phone, but one that would support impressive graphic feats. The company even used Infinity Blade 2 to show off the new graphics chops. Sadly, when we got the phone, there were exactly zero games and apps that could actually demonstrate this new graphics prowess. We resorted to running the original Infinity Blade on the mobile device. It looked good, but was not demonstrably better than on the original iPhone 4.

Infinity Blade 2 is another story.

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iPhone is top smartphone among mobile workers, report says

Apple’s iPhone is the top smartphone among mobile workers, coming in ahead of the struggling BlackBerry, according to a quarterly report.

The iPass Global Mobile Workforce Report defines a mobile employee as any worker who uses a mobile device (including laptops, smartphones, cellphones and tablets) to access networks for work purposes.

The iPhone now holds 45% of the smartphone market share among mobile workers, up from 31% a year earlier. Last year BlackBerry — which used to be the overwhelming favorite among professionals — held the No. 1 spot with 35% of market share.

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