Apple Phone Not Patented by Apple

Enough with the lawsuits and the claims of Cisco, LG or Apple saying they were the first ones to think about making an apple phone.

From what I was able to see, the phone I am talking about was under the eyes of the US Patent examiners during December 1985 and you guys living in USA have been very close to witness the birth of the iPhone as we never knew it before.

Don't think about anything you know about the iPhone as it has been presented by Steve Jobs during his keynote at CES and try to imagine how will the apple phone, as you see it in the attached photo, evolved if it was released 22 years ago sporting that "revolutionary" design.

I suppose even the electronic equipment is prone to follow the rules of evolution and sticking to this idea, just give it a shot and imagine how that phone would look like these days. For me, this task is quite impossible so I will end this imagination exercise here and draw the conclusions I wanted to draw from the very beginning.

If the guys that have patented the idea of an apple phone would have followed it and actually manufacture such a device (did they? I heard rumors that people have seen such things in catalogs during that period of time), I wonder if Apple would have sued them for releasing a product almost 100 percent resembling the Apple logo.

And wouldn't it have been very funny to actually have a precedent to the lawsuits Cisco and LG are having with Apple nowadays? I think it would and just for the fun of it, if some of you actually got their hands on a device resembling the one in the picture, leave a word and a link to a photo of it.

Just for the fun of it! :)