Capsuleer iPhone Application almost here!

Fellow EVE blogger Roc Wieler and his partner, PyjamaSam, have been stealthily working over the last few weeks on an iPhone application that will let you keep track of your character's skill training.

The application, Capsuleer, was recently submitted to Apple and is currently being reviewed. From the screenshots I've seen, Capsuleer looks beautiful. Which is what I would expect to see with an EVE Online application on my iPod touch.








Now I know that there's another iPhone app available, but I'm excited about Capsuleer because of its features:

• No manual API key entry.
  Adding pilots is as easy as sending an email to your phone.
• Multiple account and multiple pilot one step entry.
  Select all your pilots, or any combination thereof, in one easy step.
• Smart Character application Management.
  If you enter 1 character into the app, the next time you add characters, it will only display your remaining two. If you enter 2 characters initially, the next time you add characters, it will automatically add the third.
• Easy to use, visually pleasing interface.
• Real time countdown timer with end date and time in long format
  (Thursday, September 11, 2008 @ 8:34 AM)
• Color coded timer as visual warning for skill completion
  (yellow = 25% time remaining, red= 10% time remaining)
• Displays Current Skill Points and current ISK total
• Displays EVE Online avatar
• Previous state memory.
  Will load the last character you were viewing.
• Displays skill description of current skill training
• Racial backgrounds per character (can be disabled in options)

Amazing, n'est-ce pas!

While we're waiting for Apple to release the application on the App Store, Roc's been kind enough to provide us with a nice desktop background.

Get it here! Image courtesy of Roc Wieler.

EVE Online working on an iPhone 3G...

... is probably the only thing that would get me to buy the latest Apple iPhone. Then again, I'd have a hell of a time convincing my better-half that I have to pay more than $4,500 over the next 3 years for it.

I really wanted to get one, and since I'm currently without a mobile handset (having returned my Blackberry to my previous employer), the new iPhone's release was perfect timing. Or so I thought. Once I had checked the pricing offered by Rogers Communications - the only Canadian telco to offer the iPhone - my enthusiasm went out the door.

The Canadian wireless market is a joke when it comes to rates and service offered. Operator have higher service rates for less services than anywhere else in the industrial world. It's pathetic.

So no iPhone for me then. I'll just have to stick with my iPod Touch I guess.