An Apple phone prototype from 1983 designed by Hartmut Esslinger while working for Apple on other projects like the Apple 2C. Esslinger was contracted to Apple for $1,000,000 a year, and in 1983 that was a ton of money.

The Apple phone prototype was a fixed line phone rather than a mobile phone, but it did incorporate the touch style input with the use of a stylus.

In 1982 he entered into an exclusive $1,000,000 per year contract with Apple Computer to create a design strategy which transformed Apple from a “Silicon Valley Start-Up” into a global brand. Setting up shop in California for the first time, Esslinger and Frogdesign created the “Snow White design language” which was applied to all Apple product lines from 1984 to 1990, commencing with the Apple IIc and including the Macintosh computer.

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