A blast from the past: The iPhone wasn’t Apple’s first effort with mobile phones

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http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/YjxtI1NF8wVfj.vB0msrxA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/apple-motorola-itunes-phone.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/blast-past-iphone-wasn-t-apple-first-effort-192058231.html)We all know the story of how Apple completely changed the mobile phone industry with the introduction of the iPhone in 2007. However, this wasn’t Apple’s first attempt at cracking the mobile phone market — a post over at Reddit’s Apple fan page reminds us that Apple and Motorola teamed up to release an “iTunes phone” back in 2005, just two years before Apple released its own game-changing smartphone. RELATED:-Throwback Thursday: Motorola ROKR E1 As we can see in this old Engadget article on the device, the long-forgotten-Motorola phone was essentially an iPod that also happened to double as a mobile phone. It eventually released in September 2005 as the Motorola Rokr E1, a mobile phone that-featured a 512 MB



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