So this picture of Steve Jobs supposedly using an iPhone in public got us thinking: what cellphone did he use before he had an iPhone? We know that Gates has carried a Windows Mobile device for years -- at one point he had an HTC Typhoon and then later switched to a Treo 700w -- but does anyone know what cellphone Jobs used to use? Did he even HAVE a cellphone before Jonathan Ive built him the handset of his dreams? We"ve actually heard from a couple of reliable sources that he didn"t -- and you have to admit that it would be so like Steve Jobs to not even own a cellphone until he could build his own.
Anyone out there know for sure?
Jesse Lashley, High School Student
9 votes by Mark Burton, Marc Bodnick, Jackson Mohsenin, (more)
Wow, thanks for asking me to answer a question. Mom, I"m famous!
On a more serious note, I dug up this article from Engadget, which claims that, believe it or not, he didn"t use a cell phone at all before the iPhone: http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/...If that rumor is untrue, though, I wouldn"t be surprised if he used a Palm product. He said once that Palm makes good software. (He was talking about webOS, but still....) Palm"s always struck me as a company that"s very akin to Apple. I hope they can pull off an amazing Apple-like comeback one of these days.
Ashwin Krishnan, Mac OS X Product Manager responsible ...10 votes by Josh Newman, Srikar Dhanakoti, Sudhir Shivakumar, (more)
I believe I heard him once say it was a Palm Treo.
