O conceito foi iniciado por Mat Brady. Ele queria ver-se livre do seu N95, mas não conseguiu convencer-se a si próprio a comprar um iPhone pelas mesmas razões que outros não gostam do iPhone. Faz falta uma boa camera, não tem um teclado físico, e não tem espaço de armazenagem suficiente.
Mat fez o seu conceito através do photoshop e chamou-o de iPhone Elite- um iPhone com 60GB de armazenagem, um verdadeiro aspecto de razão 16:9, um teclado deslizante, uma camera frontal de um megapixel para iChat, e uma camera de alta qualidade, com zoom óptico, e capacidade de video.
Gizmodo expandiu a sua ideia e mudou o teclado um pouco, e adicionou uma Nintendo D-Pad.
Aqui um email enviado a Steve Jobs por Mat Brady
Olá Steve,
Como podes ver fiz umas sugestões de modelos para o seu iPhone. Restringi-me de comprar um iPhone até ter uma camera melhor. (Ver pic)
those mockups just scream fail and ugly ... fugly. especially the bulge of a camera lense and the physical keyboard and the analog stick. Go buy a nokia if you want that.
I hope you know that now that he has sent that in, the likes of it will never been seen. Apple hates when people send in suggestions because in the even that this comes out, mat has proof that he "designed" it first. It's a streatch, but he could sue back saying apple copied his design, even after sending it in.
I would love that phone, minus the keyboard. But it won't happen :s
I like everything EXCEPT the keyboard! I would HATE IT if they added a Victorian piece of technology such as a physical keyboard! Yuck! I'd rather have my THIN iPhone they way it is, thank you very much. Whenever you add a physical keyboard you automatically add half an inch in thickness, and THAT I can live without!!!!!
that, is a dream come true - December 29, 2008 at 6:54pm
WOW..!!? it's like those concept cars that companies make but never sell. cause they simply don't exsist. but you only see them in
magazines and posters. THAT phone is every iphone's dream come true. and the fact that you got to send it to Steve Jobs, you're geniouse. Let's hope it gets to the guy.
this is what you call an iphone!!!!! hey dude you should apply at apple for design. lol you mite get a multibillion dollar job designing apple products
It would be better to have a slide keyboard system like that, but have 2 touch windows, then you can totally customise they input device. I would upgrade my 1 year old iphone for that. Flag the physical keyboards.