Look at that bad boy straight out of 1984. Despite that fact that I took three years worth of German in high school I can’t read German worth a crap. I tried Google’s translation service but that just made things worse. So I am going to defer to the synopsis that was written up by the guys over at Engadget Mobile.
Okay, the debate can end: Apple apparently had the touchscreen phone sorted in 1984, so let the Cupertino nyaa nyaa-ing begin. Marc Esslinger, son of frog design owner Hartmut Esslinger, recently posted up some pics of his dad’s early design work for Jobs and the Apple crew. Perhaps the collection’s piece de resistance (at least in our mobile-obsessed eyes) is this desk phone concept developed in conjunction with — wait for it — AT&T. Of course, they didn’t quite have the “mobile” part of “mobile phone” down yet, but YouTube would’ve totally ruled on that display.
Original Post: Engadget Mobile
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that receiver looks like it could double as a shoe horn
That’s pretty cool that they had that in 1984 so why if they had that kind of technology did mac suck ass when they first came out?