An iPhone prototype from 2006 has cropped up on eBay, and the early iPhone OS on board has revealed some features that never made the final cut. Read on to find out which luxuries Apple left out of the final iPhone.
You can sell anything on eBay it seems, even an early iPhone prototype. One US user is flogging a pair of pre-production iPhone prototype models, with one even running a beta iPhone OS, and it reveals some never before seen iPhone features.
So, what’s new – or old? Under “Playground” in the basic iPhone OS on the iPhone prototype there are mentions of apps called “tracker”, “accelerometer”, “tile game” and “mission control” – games it seemed Apple planned to include from day one, but never did.
The “Power Settings” menu on the iPhone prototype meanwhile shows the option “Multitouch: on”, suggesting that multitouch saps battery power, at least in part. Most intriguing of all though, the phone app on the iPhone prototype has a “camera” option – were video calls built in from the very start, then later scrapped?
You can check out the video of the iPhone prototype in action below, and if you’ve got a spare $1,000 or so, you can even bid for the pair of iPhone prototype handsets – if you win, be sure to let us know!
I’m surprised at how zippy it is (although that website takes ages to load)