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Can anyone find the Nokia touch screen prototype that came 7 years before iPhone around 2000 but was rejected by management.

• throwaway03562 2y ago
  Found a sketch here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nokia/comments/vf8k58/nokia_history_buffs_nokias_first_touch_screen_and/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Nokia/comments/vf8k58/nokia_history...
• pavlov 2y ago
  This is probably the one you mean, the oval-shaped "3G concept" touchscreen device from 1999-2000: https://nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi/index.html?node=C0001 https://nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi/index.html?node=C0001 You can hover over the "related entries" links to view the images.
  • nabla9 2y ago
    That's not it. Those had roll wheels or something and no touch screens. I have seen picture of the prototype somewhere. It was square blue prototype with big screen with shape like iPhone. It might not be in the design archive at all because it was R&D prototype.
    • pavlov 2y ago
      This archive is all about the R&D prototypes. Unfortunately the website makes it impossible to find anything.
      • nabla9 2y ago
        No it's not. It's a design archive. It includes design concepts, some involving prototypes, but only in relation to design. Industrial design and engineering R&D are different things.
• Cloudef 2y ago
  Can't find it from this archive, but the concept appears on this PDF https://www.aalto.fi/sites/default/files/2020-11/Haikio2.pdf https://www.aalto.fi/sites/default/files/2020-11/Haikio2.pdf "Pocket office" "Phone, computer, television, video, all are becoming one"
  • Gravityloss 2y ago
    http://twitpic.com/btc934 http://twitpic.com/btc934 "Taskuterminaali 2002", the concept is from 1996 envisioning what would be released in 2002. I guess the technology components were not yet on that level by then.
    • Fnoord 2y ago
      SGI Irix was ahead of its time, and so were the Nokia Communicator. Battery quality/video quality wasn't up to par for mobile devices. Some DVB-T smartphones were released. Also, WWW wasn't made for touchscreen (where capacitive touch requires more modification than resistive). I'd say on the Linux-side, Maemo and the internet tablet (NIT) were ahead of their time, still limited given power efficiency, but better than Intel.
• qingcharles 2y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/Nokia/comments/vf8k58/comment/m7gorcz/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Nokia/comments/vf8k58/comment/m7gor...