A perfect iPhone description... from 2001!

[Mr Skills]

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.

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!).

 

[Auzburner]

That's pretty nifty!

 

[neesh0]

that's funny, I wonder what people are predicting now for the next "iphone"

 

[The General]

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/

 

[ViViDboarder]

Here's an old review by ZDnet.

http://web.archive.org/web/20011031...oducts/stories/reviews/0,4161,2307571,00.html

Complete with photo!

 

[mkrishnan]

Here's an old review by ZDnet.

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.

 

[dauerhippo]

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.

I think they had "copy and paste" as well, all the way back then in 2001.

 

[BergerFan]

I think they had "copy and paste" as well, all the way back then in 2001.

I so didn't see that one coming.

 

[Michael CM1]

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.

 

[Apple Architect]

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.

 

[Mr Skills]

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/

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...

 

[mkrishnan]

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.

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

 

[sunfast]

Egad! It look like an Amstrad Emailer!

 

[BergerFan]

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

Interesting. So I guess this 'legal battle' is still ongoing then?

 

[Small White Car]

Interesting. So I guess this 'legal battle' is still ongoing then?

No, they worked it out by the time the first generation Apple iPhone came out.

 

[BergerFan]

No, they worked it out by the time the first generation Apple iPhone came out.

I guess then the iPhone on that Linksys site was exempt, because it came out before the Apple iPhone?

 

[Small White Car]

I guess then the iPhone on that Linksys site was exempt, because it came out before the Apple iPhone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_iPhone

See the last section of the page.

 

[cellocello]

Hah. And here I was, expecting something like this:

 

[mkrishnan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_iPhone

See the last section of the page.

Yes, it was all agreed to very quickly and amicably.