You know all the big smartphone-making brands, since you’re reading this site, you probably hear about them every day. However, sometimes an outsider has a go at designing a phone to complement its...
The Nexus line may have had a rocky start, but it elicits love from fans in a way that the Pixels never quite managed. The trouble with the Pixels is that they are premium phones with premium prices...
The Samsung Galaxy Note is remembered as a large phone – and it was pretty big indeed, as were its successors. But then in 2013 another pocket-busting titan appeared that dwarfed the Notes as well as...
Things weren’t the same after the Samsung Galaxy Note – an irreversible trend began that pushed smartphone sizes bigger and bigger to the displeasure of many as the only phones that remained small...
Nokia is probably best remembered through its camera phones – Lumia 1020, 808 PureView, N8 and others still carry a spark of nostalgia for long-time fans. But it all started with the Nokia 7650, the...
Imagine it’s 1996. This newfangled “Internet” thing is catching on, allowing people to send “e-mails” and explore the “World Wide Web” from their computers. Meanwhile, the growing GSM networks allow...
Not long after phones first learned how to take photos came the first phones with dedicated selfie cameras. But the arrival of 3G networks meant that not just any camera would do – a core feature of...
Unless you grew up in the US at a particular point in time, you’ve probably never heard of the T-Mobile Sidekick, aka Danger Hiptop. It was designed by a little company called Danger, which was...
The original Galaxy Note changed the shape – or rather the size – of smartphones. It was the first to make huge displays cool. The sequel, the Samsung Galaxy Note II, went even bigger and stretched...
The Sony Ericsson K800 was a phone with many faces. From one angle it looked like a Cyber-shot digital camera, from another like a phone, look at the left side and you’ll see a button for the music...
OnePlus launched in December 2013 and by 2015 it was still young and trying to figure out what kind of company it wanted to be and what kind of line-up it wanted to have. Release one “flagship...
Smartwatches had more success in space than they did on Earth. That used to be the case, anyway, as wearables market is on the rise these days. We'll now trace their history all the way back to the...
At CES 2011 Asus unveiled the EEE Pad Transformer TF101 – a tablet that could transform into a small laptop thanks to the optional keyboard dock. This was nearly a decade before Apple decided to do...
The first HTC One phone was not the HTC One – but we won’t get into another rant about the name “one”. We want to focus on one of the best phones that the company ever built and one of the best...
Last week we reminisced about the smallest Android, this week we will look at the iOS side of things. The original Apple iPhone SE was not the smallest iPhone ever, but it was the smallest in recent...
The Xperia X10 brought renewed focus in Sony Ericsson’s smartphone strategy – it went all in on Android, leaving behind experimentation with Symbian and Windows Mobile. Its 4.0” display was fairly...
You probably have an image in your head of what a feature phone looks like – a small non-touch display and a keypad below it. And that is exactly what they are for the most part, but there are a few...
The T68 was essentially the last phone released under the Ericsson brand. In fact, a few months later it was re-released as the Sony Ericsson T68i with only small cosmetic changes on the outside and...
The Motorola Nexus 6 came at a strange time. Google had just sold off the Motorola division to Lenovo months earlier and the smartphone world was in a sudden transition to 64-bit processors. Also,...
2008-2010 was a difficult time for Sony Ericsson. In late 2008, it released its first Windows Mobile device, the Xperia X1. A year later, its first non-UIQ Symbian phone came out, the Idou. Another...
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