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
What's it look like? Rock Band drums?
The boot looks cool but I wish it changed instead of just looping the same animation over and over again. Maybe create the Android logo or something and have him move around the screen or something.
I don't really see what the big deal is.. Google and Windows have shared the same colors for a while now. At least it's mirrored. Microsoft didn't invent the RGBY color combination.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/OriginalSimon.jpg
Microsoft and Google can battle it out on a game of Simon
I don't even like Nexus One startup...
What a shame of phone...