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Counterclockwise: we want to see these phone brands come back from the dead
Before Andy Rubin started working on Android, he co-founded Danger Inc. - the maker of T-Mobile Sidekick smartphones. Matias Duarte, he who made Material Design, worked with Rubin at Danger and later worked on webOS before joining Google. We were...
Counterclockwise: Sony Ericsson and Symbian UIQ, the early days of the touchscreen smartphone
You may remember Symbian as an OS for old-school smartphones, but it had touch-centric branches as well. Who here has used a phone with Symbian UIQ? It's a dinosaur now, extinct and replaced by better adapted species, but like those Jurassic...
Counterclockwise: smartphone OS obituaries
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...
The world’s first smartphone is now two decades old
The world’s first smartphone celebrated its 20th birthday yesterday. The IBM Simon Personal Communicator hit the shelves in the United States on August 16, 1994. Naturally, IBM Simon wasn’t called a smartphone back in the day – the term...
GSMArena.com turns 11 today, happy birthday!
This is something, isn't it? Your beloved website turns 11 today. It's a big boy now and it's our honor to be part of the process and watch it grow and mature day after day. Looking over our shoulders, back to the year 2000, we can think of...
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