Before the iPhone...there was the Apple(?) Phone

[thatcrazycajun]

Courtesy of digg.com: Turns out the much-ballyhooed iPhone that newly-rechristened Apple Inc. (formerly Apple Computer, Inc.) announced a couple of weeks ago is not their first try at making a telecommunications revolution happen. This page from Google Patents (Did you know you can actually Google patents now? I didn't...) shows a patent filed with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in 1982 and granted in 1985 for a phone shaped like the Apple logo, apparently not designed to be portable outside the home. What puzzles me is that the inventors listed are two guys from the Midwest, when we all know Apple's home base has always been Cupertino, CA. Were these two even employed by Apple at the time? Just wondering...