Repeatedly searching Flickr for the search string "Taken with an Apple iPhone" may not be the average joe's idea of fun, but
when it comes to information about the iPhone it seems as if people are willing to do just about anything.
Mobile Guerilla had apparently been doing just that for a month, when they struck gold with a Flickr photo (now pulled, but still in Google's cache) called "toast is a powerup" with the exact same text next to a picture of someone eating toast. So far most of the evidence points to this being genuine: the photo is the same resolution as
the iPhone's 2-megapixel camera (1600 x 1200 pixels), the EXIF data matches up with an iPhone (i.e. the camera make and model say "Apple iPhone"), and various information online points to the Flickr account holder working at Apple as a "Product Manager". So, if this is real and someone hasn't just altered the EXIF data, how good is the picture quality? Well, it looks like pretty standard fare for a camera phone, although we're sure you can tell us a lot more about the quality of the output than we can.
[Via
MacRumors]
Read -- iPhone photo on Flickr
Read -- EXIF data on Flickr
Read -- Mobile Guerilla, first iPhone photo?
posted Apr 29th 2007 8:53AM
Creepiest. Photo. Ever.
Do most camera phones focus or have an f2.8 lens? Clearly this guy's stubble is in focus and background is soft. My camera phone is fixed focus VGA that just relies on depth of field, so I have no idea if better camera phones have auto-focus. Somebody said it looked like a flash photo. I doubt that very much, obviously the iPhone has no flash, but this looks to me like it was taken by a window.
That would be the real question, is this M or F?
Yes, people still aren't sure if that's a man or a woman.
The picture quality isn't that bad, but the subject matter is quite disturbing.
Dear GOD... if its from the iPhone, it would be the worst bit of viral advertising evar.
My vote is that its a dude.
WHO CARES? The iphone lacks 3G, PDA functions, a keyboard...It doesn't seem like a phone anyone should care about.
I think I'm officially turned off toasts for life.
Thanks a lot, iPhone
No guy would contemplate wearing a hoodie with 'hearts' printed on it, but the subject does seem to have a five o'clock shadow, or it could be that the camera on Apple iPhone sucks big time, brightness, contrast and saturation is all wrong, if Nokia can stick a 5MP camera on N95, why can't Apple? Yes! It is because Steve Jobs and Apple are money grabbing capitalist pigs!
"brightness, contrast and saturation is all wrong"
And that is because you were there and know exactly what the light was like? Please.
It looks like a pretty good picture for a camera phone, balanced for daylight, taken without a flash in natural cool light... regardless of what camera was used.
The hearts are obviously part of some kind of health bar from a video game, take note the video game theme going on here...
Average quality hardware for a premium? Looks like a legit Apple product to me.
Zing! (j/k)
Taken with a crApple idontgiveadamnPhone
This is clever. Did anyone see how clever that is? That's very clever. Very. Clever.
Here's another photo from one of the their albums. Not taken with an iPhone, but the apple logo with caption "no matter where you go..." gives credibility to the idea that she might work at apple.
GAH Forgot the pic:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/meriko/44381024/in/set-1028743/
What is with the freaky-ass homophobia regarding this dude? It's not just here but a lot of places. It's dude eating toast. He has long hair (in San Francisco?? NO!) and a damn Legend of Zelda heart meter shirt. It's just a run-of-the-mill dork.
Thw number of commenters here and other places who have commented on his sexuality and attractiveness level is disconcerting.
i know - what the heck is up with that?
P.S.....
Is there anything more interesting and/or pathological than that peculiar breed of human that is so *very* uninterested in the iPhone that they read iPhone articles and then take the time to comment on how much the iPhone sucks and how much they absolutely *do not* care about it?
Guys, just come out of the closet and admit you're Steve Jobs fanboys.
Very good quality image! Weird subject though.
Looking at meriko's profile, she is the woman in the other picture taken by the iPhone (see MacRumors).
This is her website: http://www.borogove.org/meriko/
I think more important than the question of whether or not this is an iPhone is whether or not the subject is a male?
@ Matt House
I think it's more a case of reading the comment submissions than the article to be fair. Apple and MS posts are always so very dramatic and impassioned as you well know, and, are demonstrating.
IT'S A TRAP
Dude, look carefully, see that top left corner, is that 4th dimension black hole? See bottom left corner, is he an alien with purple skin? Look at that muddy green chair in the background, and isn't that a typical restaurant lighting with incandescent light? Can I also add the white balance is off too. You can tell it is a cheap lens, blurring at the edges background in focus, typical of plastic fixed focus, small aperture. I think the comments are justified.
I'm gonna say monster..
I'm gonna say it's viral marketing for Aphex Twin!
http://www.director-file.com/cunningham/aphex1.html
More importantly, is that Jam or Relish on that toast? Or is the toast, bread?
Legit. This image exactly captures the wonder and excitement that Apple is trying to associate with the iPhone. Viral marketing at its finest.
And here I thought the iPhone would render beautiful everyone photographed by it.
She looka like a man
He's a bit unshaven, so i'd go with man.
And the picture quality seems better than camera phone level to me.
I think Microsoft did it...
Microsoft wants you to believe that if you buy an iPhone you'll end up looking like that! Err, her?
It worked for me, I'm not buying one (I enjoy not looking like a brute).
Honestly, guys! Who cares if this photo was taken with an iPhone....let's just wait those few more weeks and than we all know what the iPhone can or can't do ;)
That is a guy!!! Are most of you idiots? How can you not tell? Most males have an internal capacitor that can tell the difference, I guess some of you boys need to have a anual check up. Hopefully, you don't get to excited when your doc tells you to bend over.
I think your "internal capacitor" discharges when you look at a male.
Pretty sure it's a guy with long hair. The hearts are a zelda reference and the long hair is because he was probably CS. Plus, i have seen men eat toast with jam, albeit infrequently.
possible hint pointing to the fact she's an apple employee:
(check out the comment she made)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregmce/450268451/
its a man baby!! yea baby yea
its a man baby.. yea baby yea
This horrible bit of viral marketing gone horribly wrong will certainly nearly destroy apple's image and the perception that all apple users are 'cool'. apparently now the future apple users are androgynous toast eaters. And on that subject, what the hell kind of toast is that? Burnt around the edges, with about .0001g of jam, made by someone who's never spread jam in their life.
apple could have at least got a picture out before this, of something so hip and cool that it could be classed as pop art. i cant wait to see what apple is going to have to do to get out of this one.
Check the EXIF properties: f2.8 - Very nice for a cameraphone. Anyway, I'm most interested in knowing video-recording resolution since most photo capabilities were already known from the specs (no flash, 2MP = 1600x1200). I hope 640x480x30fps at least, hopefully 848x480x30 too.
C'mon, guys! The camera was decent to pick up the beard on the thing's face. Incidentally, I'd therefore say it's a man.
The bearded woman finally shaved.
i actually think the picture is pretty clever. the guy is wearing an old-school zelda life bar t-shirt that is running on empty. toast is what will power him up. i don't see why everyone is freaking out. on top of that - if you can't tell the difference between a guy and a girl from a photo like that you may need help.
--- the full size photo at MacRumors looks to be great quality IMO
This photo happens to have been taken in abysmal lighting conditions that would make the most stunning model in the world look bad. It's unfair, and gratuitously cruel, to comment about the appearance of the subject. We're all making ourselves look like bullies here, and that's not right.
Really, this photo is only interesting because it's the first we've seen taken with the iPhone, and it's the kind of very casual, throwaway type of photo that you would use an iPhone to take. So let's see how it stacks up.
In terms of the photo itself, I thought the face came out quite well, with good detail. The background was muddy and poor. My initial reaction was that the photo wasn't bad considering the abysmal lighting conditions. It looks like it must have been taken using the built-in flash in a room that was otherwise dark. When I had a Canon Digital Elph (a 2mp digital camera), I remember my flash pictures not being too different.
The picture is certainly far superior to pictures taken with my T-Mobile Sidekick II, thank goodness.
Isn't it interesting that smartphone cameras in general don't go abovt 2 megapixels? Last time I looked, the Blackberry Pearl and Sidekick were 1.3 and the Treo was a shameful under one megapixel. I know about the Nokia and Sony Erickson cameraphones that are 5megapixels, bjut my impression is that they are otherwise more like ordinary phones.
Are most of the people who hang out here Europeans? The American market seems to be pretty backward. I just looked through cingular.com's list of all camera phones and the even the most expensive ones are 2 megapixels or lower. I thought I remembered that the 5 megapixel Nokia and Sony Eircksson phones were very expensive ($500+) niche product and I appear to be right.
Of course the iPhone is an equally expensive niche product, but it seems to me that for the market it's operating in, the camera is likely to be competitive with all other mainstream offerings. After all, if you buy the iPhone, you're buying it for the design, and we can surely understand that was very expensive.
My hunch is that most smartphones don't go to 5 megapixel because the sensor would increase the price considerably, and because battery life might be dismal. I'd be curious to hear more discussion on this.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/meriko/100638217/
I mean, if that's not a given that she works at Apple (or do we all sit in rooms with dozens of mac pros behind us?) than I don't know what is.
Nice to see the first iPhone pic. Intriguing that the photo has been removed.
gotta love apple :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/meriko/100638217/
I mean, if that's not a given that she works at Apple (or do we all sit in rooms with dozens of mac pros behind us?) than I don't know what is.Nice to see the first iPhone pic. Intriguing that the photo has been removed.
First off, those are PowerMac G5's, not Mac Pro's.
Second off, she could be in IT for some sort of graphical based firm that just upgraded all of their old G5's to Mac Pro's.
Its a guy for sure. Theres quite a bit of stubble there.
If that is a woman god help us and if it's a man, he should shoot himself.
Come on. Probably just a fake. Just edit the exif and there you got you Apple iPhone. Just did that, and posted on flickr also.
gotta love apple, always teasing us!
thats actually really good quality for a phone.
Don't believe everything you see on the internet, kids.
This picture is only 72 dpi. Most phone cameras use 72 dpi in order to keep memory size down so that they can send pictures.
Most dedicated cameras the images are 300dpi.
Is this good enough for the average person?
Yes.
Is this good enough to replace your Nikon?
No.
The resolution and sharpness of the image itself seems nice enough but... that blue-green tint is making me weary of how well it can actually take photos.
Not the best image to leak, one can only hope Apple will debunk the picture, cuz that's quite ugly (and the model itself).
Whatever it is, it is hideous!
Hmm.. I would think the facial hair and adams apple would be the giveaway to most people, but for those of you that have been busy playing video games in your parents basement and have never seen a girl in person.. Girls don't have 5 o'clock shadows OR an Adam's apple.
Thats why other handset makers now pulled the model name from prototypes EXIF or replace them by cryptic crap. e.G. the HTC Kaiser identifies itself as "Samsung S5K3o1FX 3.0 MP" which porbably is just the CMOS module. Some Nokia protos claim to be the "9999"
and by the way; i am afraid someone lost her job today - apple is no fun when it comes to leaks
up next: paparazzi wandering round the Apple HQ to find somene else stupid enough to use his iPohne in public
When I take a pic with my W850i the girl looks hot!
Its a guy. The comment for the photo on flickr is:
"Derrick, fortifying himself before we hit APE"
See for yourself via the google cache:
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:61jdjcP7n6wJ:www.flickr.com/photos/meriko/473537926/
I saw the photo sideways the first time and I knew it was a guy instantly. If you can't tell that's a guy, then you must surround yourself with a lot of ugly women.
I wonder if you could over clock/volt a CMOS light detector with software. I mean, like, if you actually owned what you pay for. Seems most companies aren't into that kind of thing anymore.
I just hope hacking it to run Linux isn't as hard as it is with the Wii... Although we could always just get an Open Moko.
She's an Apple employee for sure. If you follow the breadcrumb trail to her blog, she mentions being on the iPhone team:
We should start a poll voting on whether that's a man or a woman!
We should start a poll voting on whether it's better to read comments before posting, or if people who can't tell that he's a man are retards.
And anyone can edit EXIF data with a editor, that's not evidence!
The Heart-Meter T-Shirt featured in this photo is none other than the Penny Arcade "Life" Shirt.
http://www.pennyarcademerch.com/pat070191.html
"Without it, you got nothing!"
if it was taken with an iphone, it's a damn sight better than my sidekick3.
What do you care if the person is a man or a woman? Are you that insecure with your own gender that you absolutely have to know another person's gender? This person could be a man, or a woman, or both or neither or sometimes a man or sometimes a woman... Who cares? Take a class on gender and get a clue!
The picture looks decent for a scaled-down picture from a fixed-focus, flash-less, 2 megapixel cameraphone with (presumably) beta image processing firmware. I still think Apple should have given the iPhone autofocus (with macro mode) and a flash - I could deal with only 2 megapixels then (like my former Sony Ericsson W800i).
I would like to be excited about the Apple iPhone, but ultimately my Nokia N95 will walk all over it with regards to pictures, (probably) video recording, not to mention navigation - things taht matter to me.
Somebody wrote this in the comments on another site:
"The restaraunt (at least in the second photo) is a steakhouse on Wolfe, at Vallco Mall, called "Alexanders'", in Cupertino, CA. This is about 3 miles from Apple HQ, and since the phone is in testing stage, this adds more credibility. Alexanders' is annoyingly costly, and you walk by the huge cuts of meat on the way to the hostess' podium"
Anyway, im not buying the iPhone for the camera and the picture isn't too shabby...
posted on http://www.mobileguerilla.com/articles/2007/04/28/first-pictures-taken-with-apple-iphone.php
"Apr 29, 2007
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yourmom :
The restaraunt (at least in the second photo) is a steakhouse on Wolfe, at Vallco Mall, called "Alexanders'", in Cupertino, CA. This is about 3 miles from Apple HQ, and since the phone is in testing stage, this adds more credibility. Alexanders' is annoyingly costly, and you walk by the huge cuts of meat on the way to the hostess' podium"
interesting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2y_GwKzxck
Is it a dude, or is it a woman? Perhaps dudewomannnnnnnn
It's an excellent 2Mp image in less-than-ideal shooting conditions. The minimal noise in the shadows is superb. I've seen those 5Mp Nokia images and I think the noise is greater. For those that don't know, more megapixels is not automatically better image quality. It also depends on pixel size. Small pixels inherently have more noise, so cramming more pixels into a small CMOS or CCD chip isn't always better, if the pixels are smaller.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and there's no doubt that this is an excellent image for any cameraphone, 2Mp or 3 or even 5Mp, as it's actually quite usable.
worst looking woman i have ever seen!
I want to make clear that this photo is *excellent* for a phone.
This is not a camera. If you want to take beautiful pictures, carry a camera with you. You all must notice the size difference from a quality-picture taking camera's lens and a pinhead CMOS with a dime-sized lens on it covered in plastic?
C'mon. No matter 'how you use it' a bigger lens and bigger digital capture surface will inevitably take better pictures because pictures/photos are ALL ABOUT CAPTURING LIGHT.
Now don't go comparing a 2007 camera-phone with a 1st-3rd generation Kodak digital from the late 90's - that just doesn't make sense. Buy the iPhone because it is a better phone because of fluidity in use, et al. Take pictures because it is convenient and you want to embarrass someone. Don't take pictures with it, then blame the phone for not making you a photographic genius. That just embarrasses you.
???...thats either a very manly girl, or a feminine guy.
Taken on: April 1st. suckaz
the original photo had "april 1st" as the date, it was photoshopped in subsequent posts.
Wow...a 2mp pic from a phone...that's pushing the edge.
Did anyone notice the color space of the EXIF data is sRGB. This is the color space prefered by PC not Apple. I would expect an Apple product to use Apple RGB.
I think it looks terrific for a device that will let me grab a quick shot while I'm out some where. What's even cooler is that I'll then be able to open a desktop-class email client and email the image to anyone and everyone without any hassle. Oh and I'll have a desktop-class web browser too so if I want to post to flicker it's really not a problem, especially if I'm near a wi-fi hotspot.
pretty good pic compared to my N73. especially considering the low light conditions.
the iPhone will sell like hotcakes just because for some reason american mobile providers do not offer the best models from competitors. that phone list on the cingular website is more than pathetic.
its amazing that basically _all_ of the hottest modelsi walk by every day in the mall here in south east asia are missing from both cing and t-mobile websites. why?!?!
Obviously, the iPhone makes people ugly.
Its funny how everyone is falling all over themselves to see a picture from the I-phone's 2 megapix camera when there is a phone out there that has a 5 megapix camera and people dont even realize it. Its Nokia's N95 which pound for pound blows the I-phone out of the water in every category.
It may blow it out of the water in everything, but that also includes the price.
No one noticed Samara from The Ring in the background?
It's just me or the face of this guy looks a lot like the face of Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin in the videos "Windowlicker" and "Come to Daddy"?
it's a guy. notice the darkness where the facial hair was shaved. moving on now...
It's a woman dummies. But she needs a damn good shave. Oooh, and she's obviously not worried about those carbs.
Isn't that Jodie Foster's long-lost brother?
I believe it is a man due to the caption "Derrick, fortifying himself before we hit APE" and that he is possibly related to the photographers husband because i followed a link off merika's flickr profile to her webpage and then another link to her wedding pictures. and the man looks like a skinnier version of her husband russel I have a side by side here [URL=http://imageshack.us][IMG]http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/641/phonecombojc7.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
Yeah I gots an iPhone, pretty interesting gadget.
Test
Has to be a guy...there is beard shadow on his face...but the heart hoodie scares me.
Anyway.... I would think if they were going to advertise iphone quality, they could do better than someone eating toast... Just my opinion.
Your comments: Yeah these are BOTH pretty expensive phones. The Nokia N95 is
actually available NOW allbeit for around $900. You have to order it
though. The way I see it if one was already in the market for a GPS,
cellphone, and high end digital camera the N95 would be the way to go
because you have to figure a good high end cellphone is going to cost
AT LEAST $200 with a contract. Gps's start at around $300 and a good
digital camera is going to run at least $300. You might as well get
the N95 because its all these things AND more. And when the carriers
finally start offering the N95 the price is most likely going to come
down to the $500 dollar area while the I-phone will be around $300 to
$400. I'd pay that extra hundred or two any day for all the extra
stuff that the I-phone doesnt have. I mean c'mon, what other phone on the planet right now or any time soon has a 5 megapix camera on it?
Its a MAN damnit! Now can we get back to discussing phones?
A girl with one-day old beard growth or one sick looking guy? lmao! Thanks iPhone but I'll keep my nikon!!