iPad UI gets ported to the iPhone and iPod touch

At this particular point, 50-something days away from the earliest iPad deliveries, we doubt too many people are up in arms about the iPad's ability to act as a jumbo iPhone. On the other hand, if we told you you can take pretty much the entire iPad experience and distill it down to your iPhone OS device, well you'd probably care a lot more, wouldn't you? To get that extra 3D flavor to your UI, including the fetching iBooks shelf and other iPad-specific touches, you'll need a jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch, access to the Cydia app store, and the manpower to click past the break for the full instructional video. Come on, you know you want to.

[Thanks, Taimur]

[muol Posted Jan 30th 2010 2:30PM]

And the bezel got lost during the port? Lame.

[Nuggstein Posted Jan 30th 2010 2:54PM]

It's just a theme........

[miguelfronteras Posted Jan 30th 2010 3:03PM]

I don't know what the big deal with the iBook interface is all about - you can get the same experience on Android for free with Aldiko http://www.aldiko.com/

[Merikov Posted Jan 30th 2010 3:06PM]

So... why doesn't iphone os have backgrounds outside the lock screen again? It seems to look quite nice even on that smaller screen.

[derekdevine Posted Jan 30th 2010 3:23PM]

Waste of a post. It was just a theme change, 1 of thousands of themes available in Cydia.

[Diesel1313 Posted Jan 30th 2010 7:14PM]

thanks this was fun :)

[Mitch19 Posted Jan 30th 2010 8:46PM]

This is pointless. And the song sucks ass. And by the looks of that Avatar app, that guy needs to get a life.

[oakie Posted Jan 30th 2010 10:42PM]

@Mitch19 did an unsavory individual defecate in your processed flake-style wheat breakfast cereal this morning?

but i agree. this ~10 minute video was about 10 minutes too long and the "music" makes me want to punch babies. just the intro to the music alone let me know this whole "ipad port" video was going to be equally gay.

[oakie Posted Jan 30th 2010 10:47PM]

HAY GUYZZ!!! THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!! lulz haha roflbang

[HTCHD2 Posted Jan 31st 2010 2:09AM]

palm os multitasking thing is awesome

[comeonyoureds Posted Jan 31st 2010 6:50AM]

Nice vid, possibly the gayest music I have ever heard in my entire life though

[joshmilletr02 Posted Jan 31st 2010 6:52AM]

You know...I would watch the video attached to this story...but I am reading this via my iPhone (endgadget app) and the video is not supported. /fail

[vaskemiddelet Posted Jan 31st 2010 7:43AM]

Newsflash:

Apple today released the IpadSmall, calling it the best and most complete way to view the web.

/irony

[Zombie Posted Jan 31st 2010 11:57AM]

I really don't see a purpose for the iPad, if you have an iPhone. What can it do that an iPhone can't, besides being bigger.

[liamdevlin Posted Jan 31st 2010 11:59AM]

Jailbreak and Apple seem to go a lot together.

[masta vaan Posted Jan 31st 2010 2:44PM]

@liamdevlin
apple=jail

[xDewfrostx Posted Jan 31st 2010 12:17PM]

Jeezum, that hack really noms your battery, there. . .

[andydam Posted Jan 31st 2010 12:48PM]

Wow. This is Engadget, and they call this ported to the iPhone/iPod Touch. It isn't even half complete, the theme maker couldn't even have made silver nav bars.

[masta vaan Posted Jan 31st 2010 2:43PM]

Here's what i think about apple:
1. I like everything they put in their products.
2. I hate that they don't put everything in their products.
3. i think the only reason they succeed is because of their marketing.

[under9000 Posted Jan 31st 2010 10:05PM]

are you KIDDING ME? hows this supposed to make it look better? it only looks WORSE!