The RealPhone
is a speaker-phone that supports dialing and answering, a
name/number list, 10 speed dial buttons, flash, mute, and redial.
You can use either a mouse or the keyboard for all interactions.
It is implemented using the non-rectangular window capability of
Windows 95. It can be used on systems having an IBM MWave
digital signal processor, such as several models of the
IBM ThinkPad and Aptiva product lines, or any system using
the IBM Multimedia Modem adapter card.
The RealPhone was the first RealThing we designed, and much of what we learned was incorporated into the RealCD and the RealThings Guidelines. We have not revisited the RealPhone to include aspects of the guidelines that were added later.