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Thursday, July 05, 2007

iPhone? No, Simon!


If you think the iPhone was the first multi-touch user interface phone, you are wrong.

Bill Buxton, the man behind Microsoft Surface explains the multi-touch history here (and his history with multi-touch user interfaces).

Please, don't forget to scroll down to see the Simon phone launched for IBM and Bell South in 1992!!!!

 

The reasons why nobody know it:

  1. launched too early?
  2. technology adoption curve is longer than people believe?
  3. marketing is SO important?

What do you think?

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# posted by leovernazza : 7/05/2007 01:22:00 PM
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what about this: www.openmoko.com.
another multitouch super phone. only it is open. very open.

also www.openmoko.org
# posted by Blogger fullWindsor : 8/14/2007 4:27 PM
 
It sounds interesting...
# posted by Blogger leovernazza : 8/15/2007 2:17 PM
 
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