Apple’s first iPhone prototype had a digital rotary dial. Yoni Heisler. Thu, March 10, 2016 at 10:30 PM UTC.

But if you wanted to dial a number it was like using a rotary dial. It sucked," he said. "It looked like an iPod, but it had a phone, and you would select numbers through the same interface and so on.

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