» Categories: ipod/iphone, newton, rumors. Posted by davelawrence8 at 7:20 am on March 21st, 2008. Still, drawing digits on an iPhone? The Newton idea keeps popping up. Apple is once again about to launch into a new product category, b. Apple ends up blowing all the posturing away with a design so slick it beats whatever the Photoshop twerps come up with. It’s been 25 years since Apple discontinued the Newton, a handheld computer with a stylus. Ten saplings from the apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton are being auctioned to raise money for the future care of his birthplace. The Shay unit will be contained in a thin, laptop-sized clamshell that will weigh. It was the first PDA to use handwriting recognition and the first Apple product to use an ARM CPU. Though it might not look too advanced now, at the time it was fairly revolutionary. Few people get these kind of things right. The Apple Newton was introduced three years ago amid much fanfare and hype. The Newton was a Personal Digital Assistant developed by Apple in the late 80s and early 90s. Take that idea to the iPhone, and you’ve got what you see in the pictures at the top – sort of an idea for the iPhone Nano.Įven Unwired admits this is all speculation, and while their renderings are crafty, they probably have no relation to anything Apple would release.
The Samsung model I currently carry is a flip phone. I like the clamshell idea because that’s how I like my cell phone. Sounds an awful lot like our favorite green machine. We’re talking about drawing a two with your index finger and a “2” coming up on-screen. Sound familiar? Instead of “handwriting recognition,” it would be “fingertip recognition.” And this wouldn’t be simple iPod or picture editing controls either. What interested me was the part about drawing phone number digits with your finger and having the iPhone recognize them. Internet Archive: Press Release: New Apple eMate 300 Mobile Computer. It’s a pretty cool idea – a smaller, multi-use hinged piece that swings down and serves as the main control. A ruggedized, translucent clamshell style Newton device that featured a built-in. In 2016, a unit hailed as the very first Apple Computer, an Apple 1 prototype, sold at auction for 815,000. Source Several have also appeared on eBay over the years, where the highest successful bid was 43,000. Then put the touch sensor array on a translucent (transparent) panel, make this panel touch sensitive on both sides – top and bottom and connect them with a hinge. In 2014, a functioning Apple 1 sold at Bonhams Auction for 905,000, the highest price yet for an Apple 1. The main idea with this device is to separate capacitive touch sensor array and the phone display into two separate units. Embed the dock into the space where the touchscreen of the eMate used to be, such that the iPhone can be docked horizontally inside the clamshell of the eMate. The folks over at have posted mock-ups of a clamshell iPhone design that’s based on Apple’s own “dual-sided trackpad” patent drawings. Yeah, I know I shudder at the thought of murdering such a cute little Newton as well, but then wire the keyboard from the eMate into the dock, somehow.
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