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Blast from the Past: the iPhone's ancestor

Apparently Apple's been thinking about this whole phone thing for a long time. Here, courtesy of Fudder, you can see an Apple smartphone design concept from the middle ages (wait, I mean 1983). For you youngsters in the audience that strange thing on the screen is called a "check" and used to be a way for people to exchange money. Seriously, for 1983 that thing looks pretty cool.

[via Digg]

Apparently Apple's been thinking about this whole phone thing for a long time. Here, courtesy of Fudder, you can see an Apple smartphone...
 

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nimro

You mean "cheque" ;-)

That phone is better than any iPhone, IMO :D

July 20 2007 at 9:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jason

Did this include a rotary dialing application? That would have rocked... My dad had a rotary dial phone until 1993.

July 19 2007 at 3:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
professafresh

Back in December of 1994, Apple filed a patent for "the ornamental design for a cellular phone having a removable radio card."

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=4&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=(phone.TI.+AND+apple.ASNM.)&OS=ttl/phone+and+an/apple&RS=(TTL/phone+AND+AN/apple)

July 19 2007 at 3:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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