Many people who worked on the Newton went on to become key players on the iPhone team Mike Culbert, Greg Christie, and even Jony Ive worked on Newton. It’s considered a failed project, as it only lasted a few years before being shut down.īut the truth isn't so simple. A clamshell version with a built-in physical keyboard, the eMate 300, was released for educational customers.
The PDA was slowly becoming a multimedia device. This device came with new built-in features as well: The Newton could now display photos and play music files through its internal speaker. The hardware improved dramatically with the release of the MessagePad 2000 in 1997, which bumped the CPU from 20 MHz to 162 MHz and the screen from 240 x 320 to 320 x 480, with 16 shades of gray and a backlit display. The best-selling software on the Newton was Graffiti, a simplified handwriting system written by the company Palm, which would go on to make its own PDAs. Over a decade before the iPhone, Apple had a portable device with its own application ecosystem. There were word processors, spreadsheets, billing software, email applications, validated form entry applications, music composition apps, and games. Third-party software added many new features to the Newton.
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The second major release of the OS came with a massive upgrade to its handwriting recognition systems, a text expander feature that allowed predefined shortcuts to be automatically expanded into full-length text, and the ability to rotate the screen into a landscape orientation and attach an optional keyboard. The model was replaced with the updated 110 and 120 models-and then the 130, which shipped with Newton OS 2.0. The original Newton MessagePad 100 was considered by fans to be merely a “beta test” of what the product would eventually become.
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