The Ur-iPhone In the Flesh
by John Biggs on March 10, 2009


The guy who is trying to sell the original prototype iPhone on eBay just posted a video of this mutant in action. Thrill to half-hearted UI! Wonder in awe at the strange color scheme! Enjoy the brain-dead YouTube comments!

This is actually a prototype iPhone from about 2006 running pre-1.0 software. It appears to work on AT&T and all of the features work but the UI is quite primitive and you can tell the programmers were having great fun with it. It was obviously designed to show off the original design and not the software.

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