Since the iPad runs on iPhone OS 3.2, it’s not surprising that iPhone owners out there are hoping to get some of the new goodness found on the iPad – more specifically split view and popovers – on to their Apple mobile phone.
Unfortunately, it’s been confirmed that these two new UI enhancements are iPad-specific and wont’ be available on either the iPhone or iPod Touch. It actually makes sense though since the iPad does boast of a larger 9.7-inch display which provides a lot more touchscreen real-estate as compared to the iPhone and iPod Touch which only comes with a modest 3.5-inch touchscreen.
On a good note though, there is a possibility that the Apple iPad might be souped up with a camera in the near future as evidenced by the Take Photo option in the iPad’s Address Book when running the updated iPhone simulator in iPad mode. There might be other reasons why such an option is there, but we’d like to believe that they’ve already laid down the groundwork on the OS to support such a feature when the hardware arrives at a later date.
[via engadget]
January 30th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
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