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A perfect iPhone description... from 2001!

Mr Skills

Mr Skills

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To celebrate their 10th anniversary, Google are allowing people to search their oldest available index, from January 2001. I searched for iPhone, and at the bottom of the first page found this:

The revolutionary iPhone is a fully integrated telephone and Internet device with a built-in touch screen to bring the world of the Internet into your home or office with the touch of your finger.
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Obviously it's referring to a different iPhone, but it's spookily accurate!


You can find the search here, and I have submitted it to digg here (maybe I'll beat my record of 10 diggs!).
 
mkrishnan said:
Amusingly, the second generation was primarily known for costing $100-200 less and having a faster data communication rate. 😀

Although I bet this one has a "mark all as read" option. 😛
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I think they had "copy and paste" as well, all the way back then in 2001.
 
Don't forget that Apple had to go through a legal battle with Cisco because I believe Cisco had an "iPhone" before. That's probably what that device was. It most definitely was NOT a cell phone.
 
Scary

When you read the review it is as if the Apple design team took it to heart....

I have been looking for the slide-out keyboard on my phone for an hour.
 
The General said:
Not too accurate...

Additional Features:

  • 56K modem support for dual phone lines, adjustable touch-pad screen
  • Laptop-size keyboard
  • Full duplex speakerphone
  • Voicemail
  • 200-name address book
  • Three-way calling
  • Call forwarding
  • Automatic e-mail check

LOL. Laptop sized keyboard? No thanks.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010207002902/www.uioa.com/productcatalog/
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But on the other hand...



"What can you do with an iPhone?
  • Send and receive e-mail
  • Make phone calls
  • Shop online
  • Surf the Internet
  • Read the news
  • Check the weather
  • Review sports statistics
  • Access movie information
  • Trade stocks
  • Bank online
  • Play Super Monkey Ball*
And all of this can be accessed with the touch of your finger, while talking on the iPhone."


* I might have made that one up...
 
Michael CM1 said:
Don't forget that Apple had to go through a legal battle with Cisco because I believe Cisco had an "iPhone" before. That's probably what that device was. It most definitely was NOT a cell phone.
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No, Cisco's device is contemporary -- it came out just briefly before the iPhone. It was/is a handset for VOIP, essentially, in the beginning, and now it seems to have some other internet content features.

http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Sate...nksys/Common/VisitorWrapper&lid=3333444027B01
 
Egad! It look like an Amstrad Emailer!



amstrad-emailer.jpg
 

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