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Before the iPhone, Apple's Stunning Phone From 1983

Posted by timothy on from the just-in-time-for-1984-commercial dept.

Several readers pointed out the story of the Apple phone that never was, from 1983. Pictures of the concept phone are impressive, as you'd expect from Hartmut Esslinger, later founder of Frog Design. Even more interesting is that this phone is part of a much larger collection of Apple artifacts curated by Stanford.

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  1. Prior art? by Red+Herring · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder how many iPhone patents this provides prior art against?

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  2. alternatively by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder how many Nokia/Motorola/HTC/Samsung/Microsoft patents this provides prior art against?

  3. Re:Really nice looking and interesting phone for 1 by MrEricSir · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe instead of making baseless accusations, you could actually respond to the part of his post that you disagree with?

    As someone who works in the Linux desktop world, I don't see anything in his post that seems off-base or even inflammatory.

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