Have you ever thought about an iPhone ancestor?
Well, here are photos of a phone prototype since the 1983 with a touchscreen interface!
As DigitalTrends report:
The phone prototype never made it into production, but it was supposedly designed by Harmtut Esslinger. The German-American Esslinger is the guy behind the Apple IIc, which was the company’s first push towards a portable computer. The 1983 touchscreen phone definitely has some of the Apple design elements from that period. Hartmut Esslinger later went on to found a company called Frogdesign.
Well, here are photos of a phone prototype since the 1983 with a touchscreen interface!
As DigitalTrends report:
The phone prototype never made it into production, but it was supposedly designed by Harmtut Esslinger. The German-American Esslinger is the guy behind the Apple IIc, which was the company’s first push towards a portable computer. The 1983 touchscreen phone definitely has some of the Apple design elements from that period. Hartmut Esslinger later went on to found a company called Frogdesign.
Interest in the old prototypes has been renewed thanks to a peek at the Stanford University stockpile of Apple documents, which had previously been locked away. These archives were donated to Stanford back in 1997 when Jobs returned to the company after being forced out.
Apparently there are a large number of prototype’s squirreled away, some resembling Apple’s current products. There’s even a device that looks like a tablet. It would be great to see a museum documenting the trail of Apple’s cast-off ideas, given the company’s philosophy of simplicity. Hopefully Stanford opens up the collection to the public at some point.
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