oreillynet.com — The first Apple Phone with a date patent listed as December 10, 1985 (more than a quarter of a century old) and filed in 1982. You’ll note in the diagram reproduced below that unlike the Apple iPhone introduced in 2007, the 1985 version was a flip-phone :-)
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slykJan 27, 2007
@GoatBnnyou were buried in 2007
rompom7Jan 27, 2007
@raybury: Figure 7. <a class="user" href="http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPATD281686&id=Sxw-AAAAEBAJ&pg=RA1-PA3-IA1&dq=apple+phone#PRA2-PA3-IA1,M1">http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPATD281686&id=Sxw-AAAAEBAJ&pg=RA1-PA3-IA1&dq=apple+phone#PRA2-PA3-IA1,M1</a>@Snakedal337: Nope, pretty standard phone for the times. Other than looking (as what style would have dictated back then) pretty.
meetjoeblackJan 27, 2007
Patent? It just seems like another "football" phone....
jackcallJan 27, 2007
@Rhelim: He said *more* than a quarter of a century, besides the patent makes reference to "Giftware Business, Aug. 1982, p.47; Pac Man-American Tele-Communication Corp. Pushbutton Phone" and was filed on Nov. 26, so let's just wait until 2008 with the whole "more than a quarter of a century" and just say that it's 24 years old or *almost* a quarter of a century.
g_razorJan 27, 2007
I want it!!! (mainly just because it has an Apple product)Kevin Rose, I'm talking about you.