Phone Plus Smart Telephone
date: label: Date made
content: 1995
name: label: user
content: Graves, Frank M.
label: maker
content: VeriFone
label: maker
content: U.S. Order
notes: label: Description
content: The Phone Plus, a smart screen telephone designed and released by U.S. Order in 1994, was created to appeal to the home user. It was an enhanced "information appliance" that combined the functions of a telephone with Internet packet-switching technology and included banking and shopping features. With the Phone Plus, a user could speak on the telephone, read and write e-mail, pay bills, check bank statements, receive news and weather information, and shop for groceries or catalogue goods. The telephone included a high-resolution display, a QWERTY keyboard hidden underneath the telephone keypad, 256K memory and a magnetic card reader. This "home transaction terminal" had limited functions, however, and failed because users had already turned to the Web for these same features. VeriFone Inc., a leader in point-of-sale terminal hardware and software, purchased the technology from U.S. Order. U.S. Order, now known as InteliData Technologies Corp., and VeriFone continue to develop hardware and software for the home banking and retail markets.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Frank M. Graves
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0206.01
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0206.01
label: accession number
content: 2000.0206
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Telephone
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 cm x 30.6 cm x 22 cm; 5 1/2 in x 12 1/16 in x 8 21/32 in