An iPhone with a QWERTY keyboard in the minds of Apple
During an interview conducted by The Verge of a former engineer of the 'iPod, we learned that the famous house of Cupertino had made good 3 different prototypes of the iPhone including one of them was equipped with a QWERTY keyboard.
The engineer in question, called Fadell, leave Apple in 2008, and remains as a consultant until 2010, in the interview that he worked in as many as 18 different versions of various iPhone and iPod including a particular model has a physical keypad type QWERTY slide.
Initially the idea was so good that even Steve Jobs was in agreement on the project, but with the arrival of technology to use only the iPhone touchscreen, the QWERTY keyboard was set aside, and so did not see this particular iPhone never realized in stores but only in the studios where Apple is the only existing prototype of the world.
Most likely, the project was shelved because it was assumed a real FLOP, whereas other devices on the market had already abandoned the physical keys. After all it is understandable, imagine to market a product with the old school to a high cost.
As you all know, before making the final version of a product, a game or whatever, are designed prototypes that are then in the studios of development without departing from the 4 walls of the company. The construction of various prototypes to life the final product that has all the specifications that the company decides to offer the public. Just between us, an iPhone with a QWERTY keyboard, but would not have had a very small thickness, would surely have facilitated the users to type text messages, but fortunately, there are bluetooth keyboards or special accessories.
What do you think of an iPhone with a QWERTY keyboard slides? To you comments!
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