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The iPhone has long been known as Apple’s ticket to the smartphone world since 2007. But is it original? Is the iPhone an original piece or something that came out some time go?

Apparently this questions came about after an alleged iPhone was singled out in a mysterious painting by Apple CEO Tim Cook and Startup Delta’s Neelie Kroes at an event full of journalists.

The Next Web reported on the bizarre painting and pointed out how the artist named Pieter de Hooch referred to the blurry and odd-shaped device as “a letter”. The full title of the painting is “Man Handing a Letter to a Woman in the Entrance Hall of a House” but the attention was obviously on the said block.

Depending on how a person looks at the “block” it is obvious that it takes the form of an actual iPhone. Unless there was somebody who was able to actually build a time capsule, chances are that the shape may have just been a coincidence and that Cook was simply joking around on when the iPhone really entered the technology market.

“I always thought I knew when the iPhone was invented, but now I’m not so sure anymore,” said Cook during the event.

As far as the painting is concerned, the best way to get to the bottom of it is to look it up. The Rijkmuseum site is the best place to look first using ‘Rembrandt’ as the key word to key in and search.

This was the same method followed by Neelie Kroes, the former European Commissioner for Digital Agenda who took a shot of the painting on his iPhone. His efforts returned about 2,304 results which turned up nothing near the painting he was looking for.

It was only when Neelie resorted to an image search where the actual painting and its title were discovered. Bottom line, the painting wasn’t a “Rembrandt” at all.

With that revealed, the whole angle of the iPhone being around 350 years ago is nothing more than a likely act to get some hype going.

Odd as it may seem, the only thing factual right now is that the iPhone is a technological breakthrough and the only way to place it back in time is if some time machine were really in existence.