Apple has been dreaming big since like forever. Even when they knew current technology couldn’t support their crazy dreams, they’d still throw wacky but brilliant ideas around. The iPhone didn’t change the world until it was launched in 2007, but Apple had been dreaming up “iPhone” concepts 24 years earlier.
This particular Apple Phone concept was created back in 1983 by Hartmut Esslinger from Apple’s design firm Frogdesigns. It features a touch-screen, apps, touch-screen keyboard, and even one of those pesky stylus things that Steve Jobs hated so much.
Maybe it couldn’t have mass produced these suckers back in 1983, but take a look at what could have been a phenomenal Apple product:
[via OS X Daily]
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
7 responses to “Apple Built The Original iPhone Way Back In 1983 [Gallery]”
WOW! What an Antique!! Awesome!
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That actually looks a lot more useful than most of the desktop iPhone mash up’s that have been making the rounds lately. If I had an office, I’d buy that.
what’s a landline?
I think it looks great, i’d have it in my home :)
Apple’s concept iPhone was lightyears ahead of this actual iPhone that came out after a decade after these designs were released.
WOW. Apple is so innovative! A computer and a phone– in one machine!!??!!?? They can haz all my moniez!!
For real, this is not that great. It’s just a collection of existing technologies, which didn’t pan out.