Filed under: Blast From the Past, iPhone, Apple History
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.
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professafresh said 3:31PM on 7-19-2007
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)
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Jason said 3:55PM on 7-19-2007
Did this include a rotary dialing application? That would have rocked... My dad had a rotary dial phone until 1993.
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nimro said 9:18AM on 7-20-2007
You mean "cheque" ;-)
That phone is better than any iPhone, IMO :D
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