Apple iPad's user interface in pictures

The Apple iPad won't be out for another 60 long days for us mere mortals, so we've got our hands on its SDK -- it's the next best thing for now, as you can see in the gallery of screenshots below. Strangely, the emulator's bezel is a tad thinner than the real thing, but what's more bizarre is how we've managed to pull up a camera and phone call UI element. Have a look yourself.

Apple iPad SDK emulator

[DionLynk Posted Jan 27th 2010 10:28PM]

Funny... I been in class for the last 4 hours and when i got home i didn't rush to the apple website to you know take another look. I came straight here to take a leak! Oh and i didn't use my iphone on break to go to apple.com and revaluate what i saw earlier. They screwed me up today! That's for sure!

[rodneyha Posted Jan 27th 2010 10:29PM]

What the iPad lacks natively, as stated so many times.
http://www.japanator.com/elephant//ul/13263-yotsuba-gurren-lagann/bonus_page-620x.jpg

From Japanator

[BrownSound Posted Jan 27th 2010 11:05PM]

whos thinking crunchpad. I liked the the iPad better as a unicorn

[Plazmic Flame Posted Jan 27th 2010 11:10PM]

I think there is so much space wasted, it's insanse. 11 pages of apps on the iPhone could easily fit on one page on the iPad. I guess we'll just have to wait for a jailbreak to get some functionality...

SMH...

[koolerz1569 Posted Jan 27th 2010 11:20PM]

okay, on the iPad, you can change the background photo. Does it mean that iPhones/iPod touches would be able to change the springboard background on 3.2?

[exs120 Posted Jan 27th 2010 11:46PM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R2Q74x1GLU

[dvsryan Posted Jan 28th 2010 1:07AM]

I really wanted to like the ipad, with the hope that it would have a wacom-like surface for sketching or painting. I will be holding out until someone comes up with this feature. Anyone know a solution?

[depaulsunny Posted Jan 28th 2010 1:47AM]

Something interesting to note is that iPad simulator accomodates 6 apps in the dock instead of 4 as in iphone. Also, i think the lack of widgets (stocks, weather) might be rectified by apple by providing a split view horizontally with scrollable app pages on top and scrollable widgets on the bottom. but thats just speculation..

[grobbo Posted Jan 28th 2010 2:03AM]

The thinner bezel looks a HELL of a lot better than the real thing.

[Mitch Posted Jan 28th 2010 2:50AM]

I love how the bezel in the SDK is about half the size of the actual bezel.

[harbingerofdoom Posted Jan 28th 2010 3:38AM]

so much fun when apple announces a new product.

look, its an incredibly large ipod touch. its not bringing anything really new and earth shattering to the market. its just the same thing in a different package...

now if thats your gig and you are going to cream all over things because of that, then buy it. im happy you have found a product that you truly want.

if thats not your thing then just skip it. realize that there are people out there that are going to make a huge deal out of it and thats that.

if you feel you have to either defend or decry the dang thing simply because of your zealotry either for or against it then perhaps you really dont have a valid point to begin with.

personally, the only reason i have an ipod is the fact that it does what it advertised works exactly how i wanted and expected and it was the only one on the market that did both of those things. there is nothing else apple makes that interests me and i will not buy anything else. im good with that. it doesnt make me a technological noob just like the fact that you have every iProduct that has ever come out does not make you a better and more well rounded individual.

[Ducman69 Posted Jan 28th 2010 3:41AM]

I'm confused, this picture has a nice thin bezel, but the other articles have a bezel thicker than a black porn star on viagra.

[MearWolf Posted Jan 28th 2010 3:55AM]

what's with the tiny bezel on the emulator

[patlennas88 Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:48AM]

is it just me or have the cut the bezel down in these pictures?

[rmanke Posted Jan 28th 2010 2:16PM]

Hmmm. The address book says "take picture"...

I thought the iPad had no camera?

[gamemanx Posted Jan 28th 2010 2:39PM]

New from Apple!

the Ipad:http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/foto/09e17926_340x.jpg

[Otakuon Posted Jan 28th 2010 2:49PM]

I am still waiting to see more information on the HP Slate before I make a final decision on the usefulness of the iPad. The big area of concern for me will be battery life, which may be the one advantage the iPad has over competing devices. The problem with running a full scale OS is that becuase they can do more, they inherently draw more power which can drain the battery pretty quickly. The average battery life for a netbook per charge is around 3-4 hours under heavy use. Apple claims that the iPad can get up to 10 hours under standard usage even when using WiFi. If the HP Slate can match that, then I would lean more towards the HP device as it can run full featured Windows apps. Although, iWork does make the iPad slightly more useful than I originally thought it would be...

[anttielo Posted Jan 28th 2010 4:52PM]

Why do the pictures say "touch to return call" and in the contacts "take photo"?

[MatteoVega Posted Jan 28th 2010 8:09PM]

@anttielo It's just the SDK, not the actual software that will be running on the iPad! They probably forgot to take it out when they changed the iPhone OS to suit the iPad...