Gallery: iPad Software Porn

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Earlier on we gave you a post crammed full of iPad hardware pics. But now, some software:

See that iTunes UI? A little bit different. What’s that slider at the top left? Thicker, chunkier controls. I might write a whole post about that.

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Here’s the App Store. Looks very familiar.

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And this is iBooks. Everyone’s saying Kindle-killer, and I’m not completely convinced about that. It’ll certainly inflict some pain, but the Kindle might still appeal to some people who don’t want all the bells and whistles.

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Next two pics show the pixel-doubling effect that makes an existing iPhone app work on the iPad in full screen. Looks OK, but remember that iPhone app controls have been designed to be the right size for fingertips: when pixel-doubled, they might look a bit too large and overly chunky.

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I really like the way the photo stacks spring out into albums of images:

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