Apple's first touchscreen phone prototype dates back to 1983

2. andro. posted on 30 Dec 2011, 08:02 26 1

Ladies and gentlemen what you are now looking at it is the Iphone 5...........!!

3. arcq12 posted on 30 Dec 2011, 08:22 4 4

@andro. no man, thats the iPhone -24.. lol

5. tacohunter posted on 30 Dec 2011, 08:28 3 4

Obviously they could've further devolepped this prototype. But they'd chose 2007 as a good year people were ready for this kind of devices. And it worked, I guess.

6. cober319 posted on 30 Dec 2011, 09:00 2 2

That would have been WAY ahead of its time and would have failed miserably. Just think if that type of technology had caught on 28 years ago. Where would we be now?

8. droiddomination posted on 30 Dec 2011, 09:22 0 3

i wonder if it took to long to patent it that is why it never made it to market? does it have siri? or the WOPPR? "do you want to play a game" hahaha apple sux.

9. remixfa posted on 30 Dec 2011, 09:36 5 5

touch screens have been around a long time. I remember using them on monochrome computer screens as a kid. The I played the original leisure suite larry on an orange monochrome touch screen lol.

just remember, the password is "ken sent me" :)

11. jibraihimi posted on 30 Dec 2011, 12:51 1 0

Is this ipad 2s......??? The trimmed down, and low cost version of ipad2 to compete with Kindle Fire........ !!!!!

12. chapizzo posted on 30 Dec 2011, 13:00 0 0

wow, so apple is the inventor of all things cool. Thanks iphonearena! You just had to let us know.

14. godsarmylds posted on 30 Dec 2011, 13:28 6 0

Cute article. But interested we're you got your info. Looking the picture. Looks like they were testing a device that can send e-checks and any other data via through its phone service like a fax machine. And ths product was an all in one product that can be a phone or data data transfered device that all went through your phone line. Not having anything to do with an iphone concept. You wouldnt say old egypt was working on the US dollar bill cause they built pyramids. But had a different purpose. Yes, ill give you that the iphone and the all in one product have more similarities. But from the picture I see that this product was an all in one concept that never was inproduction because of the lack of it being a good idea. So, just curious, did you find the pictures on google and decided to formulate your own ideasor do you actually have actual info??

18. lukasound posted on 30 Dec 2011, 22:33 1 0

exactly... this has nothing to do with the iPhone concept...
any implementation of the touchscreen is today connected to the iPhone? that's just crazy... Apple didn't make the first smartphone, neither the first touchscreen, nor the first touchscreen smartphone...

19. InspectorGadget80 posted on 31 Dec 2011, 17:00 0 0

But they never invented the touch screen.

20. 530gemini posted on 31 Dec 2011, 19:49 0 1

And of course google was working with theirs in 1982, right fandroids? lol.