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Patent dispute: Early Images of iPhone prototype surfaced

Recently was able to record an important victory of the iPhone maker Apple in a patent dispute with Samsung. As part of the process also render photos came from earlier prototypes of the first iPhones revealed.

The prototypes for the first iPhone have quite clearly distinguished from the first ready-Apple smartphone iPhone 1G, which came on the market in the summer of 2007. The show, according to BGR diverse Render photos that came as part of the recently concluded patent dispute Apple and Samsung to light. In the pictures, among other things, an octagonal iPhone or an iPhone in the block-shaped cuboid design can be seen.

The development of the first iPhones was ultra secret
However, the patent dispute brought to light even more interesting anecdotes relating to the creation of the first iPhones that iOS developers Scott Forstall revealed in court.

For the development of the first iPhones Apple no external staff were allowed to be committed.
When searching for potential employees Forstall was not allowed to reveal what is at stake. He just said, therefore, that the project participants have to work so hard "than ever before in their lives".
The development of the iPhone was initially codenamed "Project Purple" in a building away from the Apple headquarters.
The team around the first iPhone hung up a poster of the movie "Fight Club". The reason is a motto in the strip: "Rule 1: You Do not Talk About Fight Club!"
For years, Apple and Samsung had delivered a bitter dispute over several patents for smartphone designs. The accusation of the Californian Group: The technology giant from South Korea have cribbed from the iPhone the look of its Galaxy phones. The patent dispute ended last week with a victory for Apple - Samsung now has to pay an indemnity of 548 million US dollars.

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