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Developer posts iPhone app icons on iPad concept
By Charles Starrett
Contributing Editor
Published: Thursday, May 6, 2010
News Categories: iPad, Apps + Games
New Zealand-based iPhone developer David Frampton has posted an image to his Flickr account depicting a new way for iPhone app icons to be displayed on the iPad. Instead of the current model, under which the iPhone applications’ 57x57 icons are upscaled to the higher 72x72 resolution of iPad app icons and displayed alongside, Frampton suggests Apple use black borders around the 57x57 icon to denote the application as a lower-resolution iPhone app, which also serves to remind the user that the app itself will run either in the center of the screen with black surrounds or in 2x scaled mode. Notably, Frampton is the developer behind Majic Jungle Software, the same company that recently posted a proof-of-concept video showing the upcoming game Chopper 2 being run on and output from an iPad to an HDTV while a separate iPhone is used as a controller.
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That’s a good idea, but it’s usually easy to tell which apps are for the iPhone; their icons are blurry.
Posted by Galley in Greenville, SC on May 6, 2010 at 2:43 PM (PST)