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Steve Jobs on iPhone design
From: Tony Fadell
Date: October 5, 2005 3:59:52 PM PDT
To: Steve Jobs, Jon Rubinstein, Greg Joswiak, Bob Borchers, Phil Schiller, Jeff Williams, Jonathan Ive, Eddy Cue, Jeff Robbin, Scott Forstall
Subject: Samsungʼs SGH-E910 Bang & Olufsen “fashionphone”
The first review...
Weird way to hold the cellphone