iPhone or Newton?

Many readers of TUAW have probably only bought Apple gear with the monochromatic Apple logo we have all come to know and love, but Apple's original (ok, second) logo was a little more colorful. Those of us who have been around the Mac for awhile have a warm place in our hearts for the multihued 'classic' Apple logo, and it would see that Mark at Geektechnique has that soft spot.
Mark got his hands on an iPhone with a slightly cracked faceplate, so he did what any self respecting hardware hacker would do: painted it black and added an Apple logo from an old Apple Extended Keyboard he had around. The results, which you can see above or on his blog, are striking and harken back to Apple's first handheld computer.
[via MAKE]

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tommy said 10:12PM on 10-29-2007
I love that case where did you get
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Rahil said 10:06PM on 10-29-2007
Wow, that guy needs to check his mail, lol.
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Angel said 2:01AM on 10-30-2007
lol, did you not read? That's not a case.
Looks sexy BTW
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russ d said 2:26AM on 10-30-2007
now all its missing is that 1984 theme.
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Fraggle said 6:18AM on 10-30-2007
one of my favorite statements. "The Apple seems to have fallen far, far from the Tree" Different badge, different company. But yeah retro sleek sophistication works for me!
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basscadet said 9:51AM on 10-30-2007
cooooooool!!!!
why not take it one step further and put a Commodore logo on???
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Tom Hesser said 6:11PM on 10-30-2007
Looks like Apple decided it didn't want people knowing they stole their ads from an 18 year old. The video was yanked!
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Tom Hesser said 6:15PM on 10-30-2007
(ignore prev post...accident)
If he really wanted to go for the Newton look, he should have painted it dark green...yes, the Newtons were green.
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Samuel said 12:37PM on 11-09-2007
Like lazering in two lines of tet on the reverse of a iPod this should be optional too!
Well done!
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