This abomination is what an iPhone with an iPod click wheel could have been
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What you need to know Apple prototypes all kinds of things and external companies sometimes get involved, even on iPhone projects. Father of the iPod, Tony Fadell, has shared an image of a prototype iPhone that never came to be. The prototype iPhone included an iPods click wheel and number pad. Some prototypes are destined to never see the light of day. This should have been one of them. Tony Fadell is often referred to as the father of the iPod, so when he cleans out his garage of prototypes and gizmos it`s worth paying attention. One of those prototypes is 50% iPod, 50% iPhone, 100% terrible. In a series of images shared with TechCrunch, Fadell shares the kinds of things that never turned into shipping products but are still very interesting regardless. You could argue that the products Apple doesn`t ship are more interesting than the ones it does. In one case, that`s very much not the case. We`d already heard of Apple`s initial consideration of putting a click wheel from an ...