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iPhone’s Grandma Goes Under the Knife
September 2nd, 2009
If the iPhone 3GS had parents, its father would be the iPhone 3G, and its mother would be the 1st Gen iPhone. If it had a Grandma, that would unequivocally have to be the Apple Newton. We’ve done teardown videos on all of the iPhone models, and so it seemed only logical (and respectful) to give the Newton the same honor.
What’s the Newton you ask? The Newton was one of the first PDAs available circa 1998. It was revolutionary and ahead of its time. The system had handwriting recognition, applications, data storage, etc.. It was a Palm before the Palm was cool.
The main goal of the Newton was to revolutionize personal computing. At the time, the project was considered a failure in many ways as it did not live up to its goals. However, looking back, the Newton was the springboard for a lot of the current technologies we enjoy today. For example, the software that goes into iPods was developed by some of the Newton creators. Also, the handwriting recognition engine from the Newton crept into the Jaguar operating system in the form of Inkwell and is rumored to be the base of the handwriting recognition for the rumored Mac Tablet.
So here’s to the iPhone’s Grandma and her progeny:
26 Responses to “iPhone’s Grandma Goes Under the Knife”
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September 17th, 2009 at 6:22 am
[...] PowerbookMedic takes apart a Newton MessagePad: If the iPhone 3GS had parents, its father would be the iPhone 3G, and its mother would be the 1st Gen iPhone. If it had a Grandma, that would unequivocally have to be the Apple Newton. We’ve done teardown videos on all of the iPhone models, and so it seemed only logical (and respectful) to give the Newton the same honor. [...]
September 4th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Wow, I haven’t seen a Newton in ages!
September 4th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Macs rule!
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Is it also means “if the iPhone 3GS had children, its son would be the iPhone 4G”? LOL.
at all, you take very good job on the video!
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Seeing how things work is always fun, especially things as mysterious as handheld gadgets.
September 3rd, 2009 at 6:27 pm
My husband and I are also Newton owners. We still have several of the original first models and a couple of the Newton MessagePad 130′s that still work today! We agree that the Newtons were the precursor to devices like the Palm and now the iPhone. We both own old Palms as well. But, now we are happy to have iPods and iPhones. We LOVE our iPhones! We love the great videos you have that are very precise and keep us “alive”. I am still so grateful for the repair of our PowerBook G4 with the weirded-out screen issues. It works great now but, I keep wondering if I sent it back, could I, within a reasonable price, have memory/hard drive pumped up and (get ready to laugh) change the frame to accommodate a built-in camera so, I’d be good to go.
Everyone got a good laugh on that one! A girl’s got to dream, I’ve always heard said.