General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagined the smartphone

Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi... by INTPenis on Sunday April 22, 2018 @03:44PM (#16898127)

At the end of the 90s my brother had a Spectronics phone that was amazing. It was controlled with hidden buttons on its sides, took some practice. But it had everything a smartphone would have many years later.

Looking at their wikipedia page I believe it was in the TS2000 series.

When did this General Magic stuff take place? The article keeps using the phrase 1990s over and over.

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Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi... by pronoiac on Sunday April 22, 2018 @04:02PM (#16898235)

There's a Wired article (April 1994, their fifth issue) with more background and some timelines: https://www.wired.com/1994/04/general-magic/

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Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi... by INTPenis on Sunday April 22, 2018 @04:47PM (#16898495)

Ok. SO it's interesting to note that 5 years later a Swedish company had a finished product. Even though the Spectronics design was very unique and not at all adopted by anyone else in the later smartphone era.

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