Red, green, blue, yellow. They aren't just four of the bestest shades in Roy G. Biv -- to anyone with a computer and a soul, that particular color combo is permanently etched in the brain as the unchanging constituents of the Windows logo in its many, many forms over the years; Google's logo happens to use them, true, but so far, Android's been green to the bone. Anyhow, you may have already noticed that some of the shots of the
Nexus One clearly show a boot screen with a cross pattern colored thusly, and it turns out there's an
Android 2.1 dump floating around that's got the animation on board. Of course, dumped ROMs have a tendency to get pulled apart like a turkey at Thanksgiving dinner in a matter of mere hours, and the animation's already found its way onto YouTube. Just because it's in a hacked
Flan ROM doesn't mean you should expect to see it on every Android phone under the sun next year -- the animation portrays a nexus, of sorts, which would fit in nicely with a phone of the same name.
Seriously though, check out the wait cursor in
Windows Mobile 6.5 for comparison after the break (along with a video of the Nexus One's lovely boot sequence in action).
And yes, we know you can only combine colors so many ways -- we doubt there was any intentional inspiration here -- but regardless, we're chalking it up as a cute homage to a platform Android hopes to destroy.
posted December 14th 2009 8:21PM
I think it looks cool
@chipw
I do too. Simple, yet visually pleasing. Idk about other people, but I usually watch my phone boot (if i ever turn it off)
Windows logo? More like Crayola crayons!
@HotDog
Yeah. Restaurant kids' menu crayons always come in red, yellow, green, and blue.
You know google uses those same colors in it's logo
@vinnard Not on Android, though -- it's been all green so far.
@vinnard You do raise a valid point though... I've clarified in the post!
@Chris Ziegler Maybe they are trying to be more googleish with Android.
@vinnard You know up until now I hadn't noticed Google and Microsoft used the same 4 colors... kinda weird.
This is more than just colors now. The logo on their website doesn't remind me at all of Windows, but when you put them in the same pattern shown in the video, I'm seeing much more of a resemblance to my start button and phone wait icon than I did before
@bluestealth It's not as weird as all that. There are certain psychological impacts associated with the primary colours and how they're used together.
@vinnard
Yeah, these four colors are called the four visual primaries... it has to do with the way that the color receptors in our eyes works. It doesn't seem too odd that you see them everywhere.
@EGOvoruhk
it is the same, just rotated 90 degress. I wonder how MS will feel about this haha.
@bluestealth
You don't notice it because Google doesn't have a typical icon (though its favicon probably makes the point). But some of the stuff they made like Chrome (which has its own icon) makes it clear the colors are very similar to the Windows colors.
@Jono20 I think it's a mirror image.
Really?
My version of 1.6 has a BLUE startup logo.
@vinnard
I noticed the 90 degree turning of the windows colour in the icon for Google that appears in the title/tab bar of browsers ages ago but didn't think too much of it but it looks like they're going to be breaking out the same pattern a lot.
omfg...i JUST saw the video in the comments section on bgr...and lookie here...engadget has it too
@spartandre217 OMFG the interwebz! TWO web pages providing the same news! never seen that before
@hq
guess u misunderstood my post :-P
I saw the link to the video in the COMMENT section of an article...not the article itself...and less than a minute later it appeared on engadget....regardless... lol @ interwebz
Sure that may be why Android struggles to look like Windows Mobile. Anyway still not business-ready google. Way to go Microsoft let's wait for WinMo 7. guys
What? You mean Apple did not invent those colors?
dang namit I shoulda gotten a patent on colors and sue Apple everytime they made iPod nanos and shuffles...
It looks like an Xbox boot up screen, had they went with the classic colors instead of the green
Dawn of a new age.
Microsoft buys Google.
Windows Mobile and Android merge.
Or, Google officially lost it.
@Kirtay
...or Google is using the same colors it has since 1998
@nelagster
In a combination of four? Like that? For an Android boot screen?
It's a conspiracy, I tell you!
Obviously, as Arrington says (and he's _never_ wrong), it's a HUGE game changer and it will change everyone's lives and it's unbelievably awesome and amazing.
Way to show Snapdragon!
@Ike Turner Oops you may be right, but it just looks better than any Yellow or Red splash screen
Looks sort of like my Christmas tree camera-toss light art images.
HM I WONDER WHY GOOGLE WOULD USE THOSE COLOURS ENGADGET? YES, THEY MUST BE COPYING OFF MICROSOFT, THAT'S IT, DEFINITELY.
www.google.com
@(Unverified) As I said above, this is the first time they've moved away from the all-green Android theme -- and when you're talking about mobile specifically, you can't help but draw a comparison to those WinMo graphics.
@(Unverified)
he's right... the first thing i thought when i saw the logo on one of the previous nexus articles (before reading of course) was "wtf... Windows Mobile X??"
@Chris Ziegler: Seconded.
This phone is (supposedly) being sold directly by Google, so it makes sense that they would want their colors in the boot animation...
i like it. now if only i can delete my careers splash screen bullshit
You guy don't get it, Those are the colors of the 4 seasons but not in the right order.
It's their way for saying it's an All-season Tire phone.
Ya know, they could've at least changed the order sequence of the colors. They're in the exact same color sequence as the Windows flag logo... just rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
@dynamius Ah wish i had seen ur comment first, but i noticed that too.
Wow, just the other day I was sitting around wondering what the boot sequence looked like and BAM! Here it is!
@phobic99
And what the f*ck are you kids doing on my lawn!?
I want this phone. I might even settle for Edge on AT&T to get it.
@hollis
Now it would be sweet if it worked on T-Mobile 3G and AT&T 3G. But that would only happen in a world where the iPhone can officially multitask.
i kinda wish windows could pull a bootscreen like that off
winmo 6.1 blows....im sad
@silversun It can. My WM6.1 boot screen played some stupid sprint logo with energy drawings until I flashed it.
@silversun
That is easily done on Windows Mobile if whoever made the ROM wanted to make it like that. The carriers always put their ugly looking bootscreens, but you can replace it with something like this if you want to.
@silversun
no need to flash the rom to change the boot screens. just change the direct the corresponding registry value to a different filename. most things can be done in the registry without needing to flash the rom. :)
@Brad Hubbard
I looked for a custom ROM but i've got the verizon sch-i760...so no luck on that one
@dynamius
i'm new to the smartphone thing, so i have yet to work up the courage to mess with the registry on one of these things. anyway i could find a good guide on changing the bootscreen?
Thats the SNES controller buttons.
4 colors in a different order than their logo for Chrome or the site that form an X and mimic a nebula. I think it's just their ambition showing.