David Holland
BasicAppleGuyiPhone concepts from 2006, a year before the iPhone actually launched...
Quintessential Quicksand@BasicAppleGuy I *do* miss the slider phone I had before my 1st iPhone... aww
Brian Hough@BasicAppleGuy God, these make me feel so old. I remember the prevailing thought around the MacRumors Forums at the time was that the iPhone would essentially be an iPod with a cell phone modem. How wrong we all were!
CTD@brianhough @BasicAppleGuy now that all phones look like iPhones it is incredible to think how different and revolutionary it was.
Christian Kent šš :ļ¼¼ļ¹„@brianhough @BasicAppleGuy the MOTO ROKR could have been so much more
Mind you, if the RAZR 2 had become the Apple phone and succeeded and kept evolving, I wonder how that might have influenced the 2007 product and onwards
Steven Huang@whophd The ROKR was a dead end, little more than an iPod rewritten in Java but without the clickwheel that made iPods shine, and some white plastic.
(The iPod phone was real but also a dead end, this time with the clickwheel in the role of the cement shoes, because you couldnāt type text with it.)
Specifically, neither could run MobileSafari.
@mariani1 @brianhough @BasicAppleGuy oh I meant way less when I said "so much more" ā I just meant the RAZR and RAZR 2
@whophd Ah, sorry! I misread your first sentence.
But I still disagree: I donāt think the iPhone wouldāve been possible as a partnership. There were just too many cultural incompatibilities - starting at the very top - and I suspect you could rattle off your own lists of āApple would never haveā¦ā and āMotorola would never haveā¦ā when you examine each of what needed to be built.
FreediverX@whophd @brianhough @BasicAppleGuy
The ROKR was a case study in why Apple could never build a great phone while partnering with a third party phone maker.
The ROKR was a case study in why Apple could never build a great phone while partnering with a third party phone maker.
@freediverx @brianhough @BasicAppleGuy pouring one out for StarTAC -> V60 -> RAZR -> KRZR V3 ā¦ my entire mobile life in the 2G and 3G eras ā I even went to iPad before I had a 4G smartphone
@whophd @brianhough @BasicAppleGuy
Gotta admit the Razr was a sexy design. Millennial version of the Star Trek communicator.
Gotta admit the Razr was a sexy design. Millennial version of the Star Trek communicator.
Alan Bucknam@BasicAppleGuy I could totally see the rotary dial idea as viable. But, then, I grew up in a house with a rotary dial phone.
Fabien@BasicAppleGuy Are they real Apple concepts or @NanoRaptor ās?
David@BasicAppleGuy Itās neat to see all the designs/ideas *not* chosen.
Jiri Rybar@BasicAppleGuy Iām sure these were internet concepts, not Apple concepts.
Marina Epelman
Will ClarkCan you imagine working at Apple and knowing what the real one looked like and seeing these?!? I couldnāt have stopped myself from making fun of them.
Doug Wilson@BasicAppleGuy Why donāt more people talk about the Motorola Rokr?
I remember watching this keynote live and thinking how unexcited Steve Jobs (and the whole crowd) was acting. It was such a flop.
Steve Jobs Introduces the iTunes Phone Motorola ROKR in 2005
Wenzel Massag@BasicAppleGuy besides the hardware, which is amazing, the software looks very nostalgic. Apple really had a well developed style for handheld UIs, distinct from the Mac but clearly recognisable!
The bright titlebar with a gradient and the green battery on the right. The white backdrop and the blue aqua progress bar. The 3D menus that gave an overview of all options at all times.
Some of these made it to iPhone in a modernised form!