When it comes time to try testing/debugging on an actual device, not the simulator, can you use an iPod touch, or does it HAVE to be an iPhone? If you can use an iPod touch, do you still have the full debugging/profiling functionality?

Thanks,
Lindsay

Yes you can, that's what lots of us do. The only things you won't have are the functions the iPhone has that the iPod Touch doesn't, like vibration for example.

The only other thing to be aware of is that the 2nd generation iPod Touch actually has a slightly faster processor than the iPhone 3G so you'll definitely want one of your beta testers to play on a iPhone before release. Of course after WWDC we'll probably have a third, faster generation of iPhone to content with, but there'll still be loads of users on the current model iPhone 3G.

Oh, and after all my years on iDevGames there's finally a fellow Sydney-sider on here and I've moved to London!

Thanks for that My wife has an iPhone and will be happy to test the games for me, but would probably be less impressed if I was running away with it for hours at a time as a development machine! I was hoping the iPod would work out as that way I'll be able to test both.

As for moving to London - I'm jealous! Apart from writing games I'm also an artist, and I'd love to go see all the great galleries in Europe. In a few years, when I've made millions from my games and my art ...

Thanks,
Lindsay

Do not forget an iPod Touch runs faster than an iPhone.