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    Secret Pictures of Apple Prototypes Pop Up in Court

    By Samantha Murphy | Mashable – Fri, Jul 27, 2012

    Court documents released during the ongoing Apple and Samsung patent battle show early pictures of what the iPhone and iPad could have looked like, and hint at what features we could see in the future.

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    According to images obtained by The Verge, early prototypes of the iPad featured kickstands and side handles.

    Meanwhile, an image of an iPhone touted diagonal corners which resembles the Motorola Photon 4G, as well as one with an elongated 16:9 display (with only half of the display featuring touchscreen capabilities). Some of these features have even been rumored to be mock-ups of next-generation Apple models.

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    To add fuel to the fire, some of the prototype images have the name "Sony" emblazoned on the back.

    The news comes one week after another released court document revealed early pictures of the iPad from as possibly far back as 2002. The prototype was visibly thicker than the iPad model that launched in 2010 — likely due to tech advancements made within that period. A home button also doesn’t appear on the tablet.

    SEE ALSO: The Earliest Photos of Apple’s iPad Hit the Web

    Although the iPhone launched in 2007 — three years before the iPad — Apple CEO Steve Jobs once said during an All Things D conference in 2010 that the concept of a tablet came years before the iPhone.

    “I’ll tell you a secret — it began with the tablet,” he told attendees. “I had this idea about having a glass display, a multitouch display you could type on with your fingers. I asked our people about it. And six months later, they came back with this amazing display. And I gave it to one of our really brilliant UI guys. He got [rubber band] scrolling working and some other things, and I thought, ‘my God, we can build a phone with this!’ So we put the tablet aside, and we went to work on the iPhone.”

    What do you think of the prototypes? Are there any features such as a kickstand you would like to see added to Apple devices? Let us know in the comments below.

    [Pics via Engadget]

    This story originally published on Mashable here.

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