Featuring a rare interview in the run up to another legal battle between Samsung and Apple, the chief engineer behind the iPhone has explained where it all began , part of Apple's plan to communicate how he pioneered the original iPhone . Speaking to the Wall Street Journal explained how the secret purple iPhone project brought to life. At some point, the former head of Apple told him directly : the team had two weeks or assigned the project elsewhere. " Steve had almost had to ... I wanted big ideas and larger concepts. " In the end , the team of " surprisingly small " had outlined a touchscreen phone with beat- unlock , no physical keyboard and all functions music playback of iPod series from the company. Software first tests were conducted in a plastic touch screen connected to a desktop Mac dated [ see below ] - an effort to emulate a low-power mobile processor .
Greg Christie had to make presentations twice a month directly to Steve Jobs, and once it was decided that this was going to be something real , apparently , that's when the real work began . A " marathon two and a half years," where Jobs obsessed over every detail. In the six months between revealing the iPhone and go on sale , the changes did not stop with a split screen view for email that shows both the message and the sender information discarded before its release . " Steve thought it was silly to do a split screen on a small screen . "
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