Kinnar Shah | Blog » iphone http://www.kinnarshah.in A pseudo-egghead turns a marketer... Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:33:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 The Speculative Prehistory of the iPhone | via Technologizer.com http://www.kinnarshah.in/index.php/2009/12/30/the-speculative-prehistory-of-the-iphone-via-technologizer-com/ http://www.kinnarshah.in/index.php/2009/12/30/the-speculative-prehistory-of-the-iphone-via-technologizer-com/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:52:03 +0000 Kinnar Shah http://www.kinnarshah.in/?p=128 Remember the very first iPhone–the one that sold for $249, had an iconic click wheel, a cool slide-out keypad, and a unique two-battery design–and which ran on Apple’s very own nationwide wireless network? No, not the iPhone that Steve Jobs unveiled at Macworld Expo San Francisco on January 9th, 2007. It didn’t have any of those features. I’m talking about the one that was an ever-changing figment of the collective imagination of bloggers, reporters, analysts, and others who wrote endlessly about the iPhone in the months before anyone outside of Apple knew much of anything–including whether or not the phone existed at all.

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