When Apple unveiled its first iPhone back in 2007, it revolutionized the smartphone industry in a good way. However, what many people do not know is that before the Cupertino giant developed the final version of the first iPhone, it came up with iPhone prototypes based on the company’s most iconic product at the time, the iPod. The company even developed “fake” prototype products to prevent the original design from leaking. So today, we have discovered one such iPhone prototype which has an iPod-click wheel that ingeniously turns into a Numpad. Check out the details below to know more about it!
Back in the 2000s, the iPod was Apple’s most iconic product (now dead!) and its only mobile device at the time. When Steve Jobs started working on the idea of a smartphone, he advised his engineers to develop the device by simply putting a phone inside an iPod. Hence, the iPhone 2G shared many similarities with the iPod Touch in terms of design and form factor.
This concept for a mobile device is similar to one of Nokia’s iconic mobile devices, the Nokia 5700 Xpress Music, which also had a swiveling bottom that users could physically rotate to access the camera, music buttons, and a number pad.
