Popular Science has got to be kidding me. (PDA?)
I come home from school, and decide to glance through the Popular Mechanics magazine sitting on the table beside a recliner in my living room. I finish off reading what I neglected yesterday, and shove the mag into it's resting place, with three years of various tech magazines. I notice the latest issue of PopSci is only December, so I go digging through the stack of mail sitting on the bar and find the January issue, hidden under a large white envelope. Some informational packet from the local electrical cooperative.
Browsing through the What's New section, I see that they have devoted two pages to cell phone prototypes. Mildly interested by the odd shapes and whatnot, I begin to study a new idea on a concept gone wrong: small keyboards. Two flipouts on either side of a triangle-shaped phone, one, that the caption declares, is a data-centric version. Studying the keyboard for some odd reason, you can imagine my surprise when I happen to see a nice little Apple button, tucked away under the Y button on the lower part of the right-hand flipout. I squint a bit, then quickly skim the caption for any mention of Apple; no dice, though I discover the phone is a prototype designed by Uli Skyrpalle for Siemens. It bears the company's logo all over. My nose is suddenly two inches from the magazine, examining every detail of the little black-on-lime green logo that has adorned every Apple keyboard for as long as I can remember. Part of the leaf is cut off a bit, but I let that slide, it's perfect in every other way, and part of the Y and J leterings are cut off as well. Taken aback, I read the entire article, still no mention of any partnership with Apple. I sigh, knowing any novice with a cheap PC and Photoshop could fake it in mere moments, but Popular Science has more than a million monthly subscribers and news stand buyers.
Someone want to tell me what's going on?
[DISCLAIMER: Yes, I know there is an iPhone thread. No, this isn't an iPhone, it seems more of a PDA with phone capability added on as an afterthought. I have no photos or evidence, for that I would to use a scanner (one suspiciously missing from my arsenal.) Would be nice if someone else with a subscription (and therefore early delivery of PopSci) could scan pictures of said device, it is on page 14 of the January 2003 issue. I may be able to get them scanned at school or at a friend's if all else fails, which it might.
Though the phone is made by Siemens, the fact that it includes an Apple () key, says to me that this prototype may well be not only designed for Siemens, but for Apple as well. Alternatively, the phone might be running an Apple-based OS (which does not appear to be the case from the photo.) Therefore, I placed this thread in Future Hardware, and not in Digital Hub because of the fact that this may be a future Apple hardware product, and not in SW/OS X/GD because the OS does not seem to be the connecting point here.]
[ 12-12-2002: Message edited by: Spart ]
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Browsing through the What's New section, I see that they have devoted two pages to cell phone prototypes. Mildly interested by the odd shapes and whatnot, I begin to study a new idea on a concept gone wrong: small keyboards. Two flipouts on either side of a triangle-shaped phone, one, that the caption declares, is a data-centric version. Studying the keyboard for some odd reason, you can imagine my surprise when I happen to see a nice little Apple button, tucked away under the Y button on the lower part of the right-hand flipout. I squint a bit, then quickly skim the caption for any mention of Apple; no dice, though I discover the phone is a prototype designed by Uli Skyrpalle for Siemens. It bears the company's logo all over. My nose is suddenly two inches from the magazine, examining every detail of the little black-on-lime green logo that has adorned every Apple keyboard for as long as I can remember. Part of the leaf is cut off a bit, but I let that slide, it's perfect in every other way, and part of the Y and J leterings are cut off as well. Taken aback, I read the entire article, still no mention of any partnership with Apple. I sigh, knowing any novice with a cheap PC and Photoshop could fake it in mere moments, but Popular Science has more than a million monthly subscribers and news stand buyers.
Someone want to tell me what's going on?
[DISCLAIMER: Yes, I know there is an iPhone thread. No, this isn't an iPhone, it seems more of a PDA with phone capability added on as an afterthought. I have no photos or evidence, for that I would to use a scanner (one suspiciously missing from my arsenal.) Would be nice if someone else with a subscription (and therefore early delivery of PopSci) could scan pictures of said device, it is on page 14 of the January 2003 issue. I may be able to get them scanned at school or at a friend's if all else fails, which it might.
Though the phone is made by Siemens, the fact that it includes an Apple () key, says to me that this prototype may well be not only designed for Siemens, but for Apple as well. Alternatively, the phone might be running an Apple-based OS (which does not appear to be the case from the photo.) Therefore, I placed this thread in Future Hardware, and not in Digital Hub because of the fact that this may be a future Apple hardware product, and not in SW/OS X/GD because the OS does not seem to be the connecting point here.]
[ 12-12-2002: Message edited by: Spart ]
[ 12-16-2002: Message edited by: Jonathan ]</p>
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Are you sure you aren't talking about Popular Science?
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Ed M.
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Ed
<strong>Are you sure you aren't talking about Popular Science?
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Ed M.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Spart did say it's on Popular Science and it's on page 14.
Not sure why he had to make it a long story and bring Popular Mechanics into the picture. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
The longness was for drama, or something.
Anyone else have a subscription?
and yes, you would think there were more geeky tech-heads here who subscribed to pop sci....
<img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
I don't have a website I could post them to.
try asking brad or murbot or maybe even eman....if nobody can do it sooner, i can do it tonight when i get off (hehe, i said get off)
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ill post it.
spart at fuckmicrosoft dot com
<strong>I'll throw the pictures up on my FTP.
spart at fuckmicrosoft dot com</strong><hr></blockquote>
do you have a different address for more professional settings? i'm not saying i want it or anything, but i can just see you in a group meeting, exchanging emails, that would be funny
You can also use spartfms at myrealbox dot com, the other one redirects all of its incoming mail to there.
<a href="http://tchomeshow.com/PS3.jpg"; target="_blank">picture 2</a>
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So does anyone know about this guy? Does he work for Siemens or is he a contractor or something?
Compared to the print or etching quality of the alphabets, that looks hand drawn.
Either popular science is pulling our leg or it's meant for something else. They have the @ sign at the other end of the keyboard. maybe this is to access some menu function.
As an apple user, it makes more sense to me to include the command symbol than a squiggly apple.
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