Articles tagged "Counterclockwise"

Apple may be the most powerful tech company today, but it went through a difficult period in the 90s. Without Steve Jobs at the helm, it was lost and tried entering every product category you can think of. Most of them failed commercially, though ...

The first portable digital camera was likely the Fuji DS-1P from 1988, that’s the predecessor of modern DSLRs. But we’ll turn your attention to the Game Boy Camera instead - a 1998 accessory for the Game Boy that was credited as the “world’s...

The Samsung Galaxy S8 made a huge splash this week, but it has been a long way to get to this point. We’re not talking about missing the MWC, with this week’s Counterclockwise we would like to take you back to where it all began. You see, the new...

Smartphones have progressed by leaps and bounds, yet they are far behind the humble PC in some respects. Modular phones have attempted to bring upgradability, but few phones seriously considered giving you freedom of choice when it comes to the...

There are two major screen technologies on mobile - LCD and OLED. LCD has been around since the start and while we had seen the occasional OLED, it wasn’t around 2010 when the tech truly started to show its potential. The Nokia N8, for example, had...

It was six years ago when Android became the dominant OS in the United States - until the end of 2010, it was BlackBerry that commanded that market, while Apple’s fledgling iPhones held the #3 spot. BlackBerry, the OS, is gone now, but at least it...

It has been a while since we last took a trip down memory lane, but the impending Mobile World Congress sparked some memories. The MWC has been the traditional stomping ground of the Samsung Galaxy S phone. Last year, it was the Galaxy S7. The...

LG's announcement of the V10 was pretty exciting and the second screen seemed clever. Of course, phone historians know the second screen is something that has been tried many times in the past, it just never caught on. Just note that we're not...

We looked at the history of the iPhone, so it's time to look at how Android's Nexus line developed over the years. The seventh generation models are coming very soon too, so this weekly trip down memory lane comes just in time. January 2010:...

This week saw the announcement of the 9th generation iPhone, so it's a good time to look back through its family tree. Welcome back for another weekend trip down memory lane. Apple iPhone It was the phone that changed the industry – not...

Business is a numbers game and selling 1 million units of anything is always a good reason to pop open a champagne bottle. The big names in the mobile industry do it easily, but we'll look at some of the celebrations that have faded from memory....

The new Galaxy Note was unveiled this week, so we decided to look back at the history of one of the most successful phablets. It wasn’t the first, but it's credited with the resurrection of the stylus (the capacitive touchscreen on the iPhone gets...

A few weeks ago we looked at the history of iOS, now let's remember the OS that are no longer with us. Some of them powered smartphones before someone even coined the term, but they proved evolutionary dead ends. Symbian: 2000-2012 Many...

Usually with Counterclockwise we look into the far (in tech terms) past, but this time we kept it closer to the present. So the story today is more relevant to current trends than a simple history lesson. Big & small Almost six years ago to...