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At the end of the 90s my brother had a Spectronics phone that was amazing. It was controlled with hidden buttons on its sides, took some practice. But it had ev
by INTPenis 9y ago
At the end of the 90s my brother had a Spectronics phone that was amazing. It was controlled with hidden buttons on its sides, took some practice. But it had everything a smartphone would have many years later.
Looking at their wikipedia page I believe it was in the TS2000 series.
When did this General Magic stuff take place? The article keeps using the phrase 1990s over and over.
- pronoiac 9y agoThere's a Wired article (April 1994, their fifth issue) with more background and some timelines: https://www.wired.com/1994/04/general-magic/ https://www.wired.com/1994/04/general-magic/
- INTPenis 9y agoOk. SO it's interesting to note that 5 years later a Swedish company had a finished product. Even though the Spectronics design was very unique and not at all adopted by anyone else in the later smartphone era.
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