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Here's what Apple's first hacked-together iPhone looked like, and other news for March 26, 2014

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<p>Yesterday we told you the Wall Street Journal posted its interview with one of the original iPhone engineers (http://www.tuaw.com/2014/03/26/apple-planning-to-make-emoji-characters-more-diverse-and-other-n/) about the creation of the iPhone. But now Apple has share an image of what the first hacked-together "iPhone" looked like (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/25/inside-a-secret-apple-room-where-iphone-software-was-born/). As you can see above, the first "iPhone" was a PowerMac G3 with an old Cinema Display monitor converted to a touch screen. As Apple noted when it supplied WSJ with the photo:</p>

<p>This is a system Apple rigged together to run early prototypes of its iPhone software in 2006. It tethered a plastic touch-screen device - code-named "Wallaby" - to an outdated Mac to simulate the slower speeds of a phone hardware.</p>

<p>In other news:</p>

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   <li>A Tokyo court has ruled (http://www.electronista.com/articles/14/03/25/samsung.mulls.appeal/) Apple didn't infringe on Samsung patents.</li>
   <li>Facebook has announced it now has over 1 billion users on mobile devices (http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2014/03/25/facebook-now-1-billion-active-mobile-users/#!BrFeg), many of them on the iPhone.</li>
   <li>Guitar Hero for iOS will be removed from the App Store (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-03-19-all-guitar-hero-dj-hero-song-dlc-to-be-removed) at the end of the month. If you want it, be sure to pick it up now.</li>
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