It looks like the iPhone isn’t Apple’s first attempt at creating a phone. The company filed a patent back in 1982 and listed on December 10, 1985. From what I can see of the drawings, this phone would have been hard to carry around, and looks absolutely nothing like any phones I’ve seen on the market. Did I mention that it looks like an apple?
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Thanks George!
I had a phone almost exactly like this, but it was in the shape of a Pac-Man. Everything else was the same — same keypad, same hinge, same speaker, same grille right over the slot where you’d write your phone number.
sure you did, old man.
I really wonder if this phone would have sold well with the consumer…considering this was back in the early 80′s.
this is the pacman phone that looks like the apple phone
Excellent Find and a good what if???
Two things you need to consider:
1) It’s not a cell phone so it’s not ment to be carried around.
2) There are a lot of stupid/creative designs of regular phones, including Pacman mentioned above. This is nothing special in that sense.
nkce image structure.thats realy look like apple phone.