Hasta La Gadget!

I know, I know, both Samsung and Apple have been slugging it out for a long time now in legal circles, no thanks to their never ending injunctions against one another to ban the sales of their rival’s products, and we have seen victories and losses happen to both parties, although it does seem that at this point in time, it is the Cupertino-basec company who has the upper hand. The latest development involves Apple countering Samsung’s allegations that the iPhone that you know and love was actually a borrowed design from Sony.

Just how did Apple respond to such allegations? Well, they decided to show off an iPhone prototype which actually dated all the way back to 2005, where it also proved that 7 odd years ago, the iPhone already shared its fair share of design elements with the iPhone 4 that rolled out to the masses just a couple of years back. Referred within Apple’s inner circles as “Purple,” the prototype which was created in August 2005 was shown off in new court documents for the ongoing Apple-Samsung lawsuit.

What you see above is an image from the bunch of released images, courtesy of The Verge. This particular filing pointed towards a white iPhone that shows off a touchscreen display that takes up most of the front, complete with a home button that is located right under the display which reads “Menu.” This 2005 prototype also comes with flat sides and curved corners, which are not too different from that of the iPhone 4. As for the device’s back, it would feature some space for the camera lens that is located right at the upper right corner.

What do you think of Apple’s move to reveal the “Purple” design so that the court will be convinced that this is totally different from what Samsung alleges, that Apple’s iPhone design was inspired by the good people over at Sony? Not only that, Apple did previously show off another prototype iPhone from 2006, where it has been slapped with the nickname “Jony”, which can be presumed to be in honor of Apple’s lead designer Jony Ive, albeit following the similar font and style as the “Sony” logo.

Hopefully all these legal tussles will be able to be resolved soon, without resulting in the stifling of innovation, of course.

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[ Apple’s 2005 iPhone prototype design strikes a blow at Samsung copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

We all know just how Apple has been at the forefront of design in their products all these years, and here we are with what was dug up by The Verge – highly confidential prototypes of the iPad and the iPhone. Bear in mind that these are extremely early iPad and iPhone design prototypes, so they are very far from what you see today. The iPhone that you first saw all the way back in 2007 had smooth, curved angles, but those that were in the prototype stage sported an octagonal design – with sharp edges.

The prototypes were discovered in unredacted court exhibits which were filed on Thursday, and it did allow the general masses to be able to check out a rather rare look at Apple’s extremely secretive design process prior to arriving at the doorsteps of consumers, according to The Verge. The reason these prototypes were revealed was not because Apple volunteered to do so, but rather, they were forced to divulge the information after a July 30 jury trial against Samsung.

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[ Highly confidential iPad and iPhone prototypes spotted in court documents copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with “Insert Coin” as the subject line.

We’ve seen our fair share of time lapse tools at Insert Coin, ranging from last year’s Triggertrap to the more recent Timelapse+ and Genie rig. Now we’re throwing in another Kickstarter project into the mix, a motion time-lapse gadget called the Radian. Shaped like an oversized hockey puck, the Radian works with any camera that has a trigger-release input and can be used with or without a tripod. The device can be programmed through either an Android or iPhone app and lets you disconnect your smartphone once you’ve got your settings dialed in. Otherwise, you can use the Radian to take time-lapse photography with your iPhone or Android smartphone as well. A pledge of $150 gets you the standard Radian, while ponying up extra moolah nabs you a charcoal-colored variant as well as other goodies. If successful, delivery is slated for January. For more details, check out the video and source link after the break.

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This week several black and white photographs taken back around the year 2002 appeared containing what may very well have been the original iPad prototype – today some much more impressive images have been dropped. The images you’ll see here show not just the supposed original “035 prototype”, but a brand new iPad 2 as well. It seems that someone who owns one of these original beasts found themselves suddenly free to tell the truth about it and took immediate action to make it so.

What you’ll see is the iPad 2 sitting next to what’s being called the original iPad prototype. This device was shown in a story earlier this week which had none other than Apple’s Jonathan Ive confirming the existence of said prototype and that the images matched up to what he remembered from the early 2000s as the prototype in question. This original iPad – made well before such a name existed – had a 12 in display and was nearly an inch thick.

This device has not yet been shown running any software at all, but due to the distinctive lack of any kind of buttons or switches at all, we must assume that it was meant to be a touch-screen unit. The back of the device has an Apple logo in portrait configuration, and the whole back of the device is white plastic. This design places the device right in line with the original white MacBook lineup, rounded corners and everything.

One rather large difference is the area around the front glass panel – it appears to have a space for airflow, this unit perhaps even containing a cooling fan inside!

Have a glance at how different the original is from the most modern of iPad units, and thank your lucky iStars that Apple found a way to make things much, much smaller in the decade between the two. Head to our iPad timeline below as well for additional recent bits on the future of the iPad.

[via Buzzfeed]

iPad original prototype re-appears with 12-inch display is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

It appears that as early as 2002, Apple had been working on what would eventually become the world’s most famous tablet computer: the iPad. In some recently explored court documents made public in an Apple vs Samsung court case, it appears that not only did Apple Senior VP of Industrial Design Jonathan Ive reveal when he first began work on the unit known as 035, aka eventually the iPad, several photos were shown as well. What you’ll see here is a very thick early vision.

Speaking on the images of the 035 – aka the images you’re seeing above and below – Ive let the court know that he’d been working with the device between 2002 and 2004. He also let it be known that though he wasn’t sure which model shop created this exact model, that it was part of Apple’s exploration of the tablet in general.

“My recollection of first seeing it is very hazy, but it was, I’m guessing, sometime between 2002 and 2004, some but it was I remember seeing this and perhaps models similar to this when we were first exploring tablet designs that ultimately became the iPad.” – Ive

Remember also that Steve Jobs himself spoke with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher during an appearance at the 2010 All Things D, saying that it was actually the iPad that was being worked on before the iPhone came to fruition.

“I’ll tell you a secret. It began with the tablet. I had this idea about having a glass display, a multitouch display you could type on with your fingers. I asked our people about it. And six months later, they came back with this amazing display. And I gave it to one of our really brilliant UI guys. He got [rubber band] scrolling working and some other things, and I thought, ‘my God, we can build a phone with this!’ So we put the tablet aside, and we went to work on the iPhone.” – Jobs

Have a peek above and below at the beast that was the first version of the iPad, or the earliest known version at this point, at least. It’s just as thick as a plastic MacBook, has no physical home button, and probably weighed in at several pounds. Enjoy your 2012 iPad and remember what it once was!

[via NetworkWorld]

Original iPad prototype photos appear via Jonathan Ive is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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