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iPhone on Lost?
I'm not much of a "Lost" fan (I guess you could say I "lost" interest in season one. Ha!). However, many people are, including TUAW reader David who noticed that the UI of a "satellite phone" used on last night's episode looked kind of familiar (Reader loki the first has posted a much larger screenshot here). Those rounded square buttons, even the real Mac OS X "Home" icon...heck, that's an iPhone! OK, an iPhone crammed into a Newton, but the similarities are pretty striking. Heck, note the hand position in both photos (yes, we realize that there are only so many ways to hold a cell phone).
So now they've got an iPhone before anyone else. That island really IS strange...
Thanks, David!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
St3phen said 2:04PM on 4-19-2007
Especially amazing considering the show takes place in 2004!
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Eli Hodapp said 2:20PM on 4-19-2007
Must be a slow news day today.
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Thomas said 2:22PM on 4-19-2007
:o So Apple copied. Is that like the third lawsuit now then?!
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Tom von S. said 2:37PM on 4-19-2007
Steve Jobs is one of the Others?!?!
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Longhorn said 2:43PM on 4-19-2007
David wasn't the one that took the screen shot, thank you very much!!!
I posted it in your comments earlier... and that's my flickr account!
Don't mind me, I'm just being selfish!!
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Chris said 9:09PM on 4-19-2007
Sorry guys, this seems like a bit of a stretch to me...
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ChrisNTR said 3:12PM on 4-19-2007
SPOILERS!
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sam said 4:09PM on 4-19-2007
They have a phone on the island? Why have they been there so long? Let me guess, they are using it for some stupid reason instead of calling for help.
I lost interest in that show after watching about 2 minutes of it. LAAAAAAAAAAAME.
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Jerome said 4:09PM on 4-19-2007
you're fairly unaware of how much of a spolier this is for non-US viewers, aren't you?
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Martin said 4:14PM on 4-19-2007
Hey Dave, seen the image of Steve Jobs on some toasted bread recently?
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Olino27 said 4:38PM on 4-19-2007
hahaha I watched it with my friend and we both said AN IPHONE when we saw it :P
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David said 4:34PM on 4-19-2007
Hey Crouching Tiger, Hidden Longhorn,
For what it's worth, I listed you as the source when I submitted the tip. :-)
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bert said 4:54PM on 4-19-2007
Well, I really *hope* it's not an iPhone. After all, on the show, they turned it on, it worked for a few seconds, said "Internal Error" and shut off.
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Ariza said 4:57PM on 4-19-2007
Well Lost is on ABC -> ABC is owned by Disney -> Steve Jobs is the largest shareholder at Disney (as a result of the Pixar sale), so I don't think he will be suing anyone. If anything this was intentional to drum up some buzz.
The iPhone has been in the works for 2 1/2 years, this could even be an early prototype.
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Ray Valdez said 5:31PM on 4-19-2007
Yeah, they did use the basis of iPhone's UI on the satellite phone they found on the island. I don't they they were trying to use an old prototype of anything...I think they were just givin' props to apple.
Remember when TV Shows were announced for iTunes music store? Steve showed a small clip of Lost (the pilot episode) to demonstrate some of the content.
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Tracy said 11:03PM on 4-19-2007
It's not really a spoiler, jsyk..
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SubGenius said 11:09PM on 4-19-2007
It is a NOKIA phone running Linux with a customized GUI.
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marcello said 3:33AM on 4-20-2007
well, it wasn't that nice to post a "spoiler" without any warning...
M
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Douglas Shearer said 4:47AM on 4-20-2007
Thanks for the spoiler! Also thanks to comment #12 for telling us how the whole satellite phone thing turns out, doesn't spoil the anticipation at all.
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Matteo said 7:38AM on 4-20-2007
So that island must be somewhere in China... Where the iPhone is being produced :-)
Otherwise they could never have the prototype in advance...
Maybe they'll watch the Hanso foundation movies on the AppleTV sometimes soon.
I am waiting for the new Lost season to be aired here in Europe on TV and this image is hardly a spoiler. I have read many mixed (negative) reviews about the fact the series is turning towards a soap opera with no real suspence and nothing is being "discovered". That, together with the fact all tv series and movies are not available on iTunes store here is what disturbs me most, not the picture of a hand holding a phone...
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