Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone
Found Images: iPhone Dinosaurs of the Past
Gallery: DemoApp Dinosaurs
Lurking within my iPhone's secret Demo.app utility, I came across these screen shots that seem to date back to at least six months before the iPhone actually debuted. I dug them out, converted them to a standard form (they were saved using non-standard PNG encoding) and put them into a gallery for you to enjoy. I find the color choices quite interesting and am glad that they ditched the bronze tones and went for blue-greys instead.
Update: Comments indicate the images may have been decoded backward (whoops!) causing the color shift. We'll investigate.
Update 2: The gallery has been updated with the corrected colors. There are still cool things to see in the out-dated images but fortunately, Apple's color design sense was not as bad as feared
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Darren said 7:11PM on 1-16-2008
I think the weird colors have to do with the way you decoded these images. It looks like red and blue and reversed.
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Sam Gross said 8:02PM on 1-16-2008
I concur. It is interesting that the images were basically what they showed of the calendar, clocks, and calculator app at the keynote.
Gazmik Fizzwidget said 7:20PM on 1-16-2008
Yep -- you're displaying a BGR-encoded image as RGB... swap the channels and they look normal.
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Peter Zich said 7:20PM on 1-16-2008
I saw those in the demo app a while back, but I guess I never looked at the dates, cool.
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danw13335 said 7:22PM on 1-16-2008
I agree with Darren. All the places where its blue on the current iPhone/touch shows up bronze in the photos, and there are no interface changes other than the colors. Also, it just doesn't seem very Apple-like to use bronze. It is very interesting to see, though, if it is real.
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noza said 7:22PM on 1-16-2008
Regarding the notes, in a right-hand drive car, the stick shift is on the left (if it was on the right it'd be in the door!)
Funny pictures, though!
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Jon said 2:08AM on 1-17-2008
Also, you go left around roundabouts, not right.........
Sketch said 3:19PM on 1-17-2008
@Jon
In RHD countries going around a roundabout is a long right turn. You enter to the left, yeah, but you turn right.
Ondra Soukup said 7:23PM on 1-16-2008
It might as well be a bug in the conversion software, swap red and blue and you're fine :)
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danny said 7:24PM on 1-16-2008
sorry to disappoint you but these are the right pictures. the encoding routine for the png went wrong. the blue colored parts should be redish and the red ones blueish.
happend to me when ic converted the original iphone icons such as edge etc.
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Ondra Soukup said 7:26PM on 1-16-2008
it's funny how swapping color channels turns something from Apple/MacOS X look into somewhat more ubuntu look :D
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Aaron H said 7:29PM on 1-16-2008
Darren's right. Flip the red and blue channels and they look just like the current iPhone.
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Brandon Walkin said 7:53PM on 1-16-2008
These pictures (even if they were decoded wrong) are not identical to the current iPhone UI.
Differences:
- In notes there's a comma after the date and before the time. There's no comma in the current UI.
- No e-mail icon in Notes. (That one's pretty obvious)
- In Notes their is a gradient applied to the title.
- In Calendar, the Today button is slightly less wide.
- In World Clock, the AM and PM font is much larger than the current one.
There are more differences but I'm sure you get the point by now.
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ryan said 8:45PM on 1-16-2008
Good eye, I agree that these colors are just a decoding error, but these are definitely early version of the Apps.
Another difference that I notices is the the Alarm icon on the World Clock screen is point at about 7oclock while the final version (at least 1.1.3) is pointed at 9oclock. That seems like a really random change....
dan kass said 7:54PM on 1-16-2008
i still hate that blue theme. However, its really easy to edit and now i have a great black skin!
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Peter said 11:53AM on 1-17-2008
How do you change the theme? I am interested in a black theme too.
babble said 8:11PM on 1-16-2008
Hiya,
I have a set of channel-swapped images posted if anyone's interested...
http://gallery.mac.com/wardly#100099&bgcolor=black&view=grid
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kitcowan said 1:42AM on 1-17-2008
The one that really stands out as a possible decoding issue is the calculator. The iPhone's calculator is an obvious homage to the classic Braun ET44 and ET66 calculator designs. Thus, there would be no reason to have deviated from the button colors of the original.
http://www.air-port.com/blog2/07/19/2007/iphone-calc-braun-et66
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Dan S. said 10:34AM on 1-17-2008
Erica,
The red and blue channels are still reversed on the World Clock image.
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riddlu said 6:54PM on 1-17-2008
You forgot split view for MobileMail.app from Macworld 2007
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