Did Amiga have the first "iPhone" before it was even a twinkle in Steve's eye? Now I've got your atttention, it looks like it did. By accident I came across an archive for an Amiga program called AmiPhone last released by the author in 1996. This certainly predates the Apple "version" that came out in 2007. AmiPhone is a program that lets you make vocal "phone" calls to another Amiga over the internet. It employs a VOIP before even VOIP was a catch word. Amiga: An old innovator.



Check it out:
http://aminet.net/search.php?query=amiphone

As you can see, the Amiga version of the iPhone is inside AmiPhone. Well, I thought it was a cool find.

By comparison. I have also seen iBrowse on both iOS and Windows.

@Hypex

The source code is there too.

@Hypex

I used to use AmiPhone quite a lot to talk to a state side Amigan who went by the name of Cyber2th, wonder what happened to him...

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@Ryu

Cool stuff. How did it compare a telephone call in terms of audio quality.

Hum. Not iPhone: I'll compare it with Skype, instead.

@cdimauro

Agreed. Nice program all the same. . .

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@Rob

I was on dialup back in the day and the audio quality wasn't too bad. Not quite as good as a normal phone call but perfectly usable. I used my megalo sound sampler and microphone.

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@Ryu

Did anyone tried it now to see if it works? I see that the version 1.93 can use AHI for input, so it might work on NG systems?

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In fact, Amiga got an 'iphone' like, before Iphone gone gold (2007 right?).

At that time, there was a Sharp smartphone, coming along with AAnywhere.

That was a working proto....before iphone....

@Ryu

Funny nick, it would stand out. Perhaps he changed it and will reappear on the forums.

I also wonder what similar software other computers had. It's not an easy thing to do, as you would have needed a compatible sampler hooked up to the mic I take it, all hooked up and working.

@cdimauro

Well AFAIK there was no AmiSkype back then or even now . And "AmiPhone" contains the string "iPhone".

@Hypex

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Hypex wrote: I also wonder what similar software other computers had. It's not an easy thing to do, as you would have needed a compatible sampler hooked up to the mic I take it, all hooked up and working.

1974: Network Voice Protocol (NVP) first tested over Arpanet in August 1974, carrying 16k CVSD encoded voice – first implementation of Voice over IP
1991: First Voice Over IP application, Speak Freely, released as public domain. Originally written by John Walker and further developed by Brian C. Wiles.
1994: MTALK, a freeware VoIP application for Linux[66]

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Tried the app on my AmigaOS 4 system and it show an error message asking the misc.resource, which is not available. Does anyone know what it is and where I can find it?

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On a classic. It controls access to the serial port.

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Iphone name isn't property of apple because it is licensed from cisco. They pay a hefty sum to be able to use it.

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Iphone name isn't property of apple because it is licensed from cisco

That is correct. I have a wireless Linksys IPhone which can be used for landline calls and skype calls in one.

When I tried to buy a second one I can't, because it disappeared from the shelves and a little bit later apple iphone is released.

Linksys_iPhone

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