Guest author Michael

Guest writer Nico brings the site a little extra retro action via the QWERTY-equipped Nokia N97 and N97 mini, 13 year old hardware rescued from an attic and pimped for 2022!

Twenty years of mobile coverage, almost 25,000 articles across (at times) up to five sites, half a dozen writers, Symbian through Meego and Windows Phone operating systems, then cross-platform to iOS...

So yes a bit of an experiment. Writing about the laptop in your pocket ON a laptop in my pocket. In this case the Microsoft Surface Duo 2. No corrections or additions were made on any other device....

While utterly generic, I have a soft spot for 'gadget bags', as I call them. My go-everywhere briefcase has been filled in recent times with a myriad of cables and adapters - and this £17 UGREEN...

My own experience with the Nokia 9 PureView, released to much fanfare exactly three years ago, was limited to my loan review period, but there are plenty of people with years of experience with this...

If you haven't heard of David Wood before then you need to catch up a little. One of the creators of the Psion palmtops in the 1990s and then one of the architects of Symbian OS in the 2000s, he has...

Michael Fisher has an ongoing video series looking at smartphones of yesteryear and in the episode below he looks back at the Sony Ericsson P910, a device with no less than four user interface...

A brief history lesson. Today's smartphones are built on the lessons learned from the early days, when Symbian ruled the world (2002-2010) - and Symbian itself, a multitasking OS in the palm of your...

There's a good feature up today by friend of 'All About', Zac Kew Denniss, a Brit who lives just down the road from me. He was writing for Android Police and has picked out five favourite hardware...

Despite a pandemic and a global chip shortage, smartphone shipments actually grew by 1% worldwide, according to Canalys. [Remember them? We used to quote them heavily when exploring Symbian and...

Planet Computers' latest QWERTY palmtop/communicator was shown to the world's press at CES 2022 in Las Vegas - and now we have real world hands-on video of the device. Promising a Psion-quality...

When a smartphone falls out of use in your life, there's a temptation to find a good home for it. Often a family member, often a second hand market like eBay, but sometimes - just sometimes - the...

Guest author Michael “Mivas Greece” contributes:

Back in March 2020, so just under two years ago, Planet Computers launched the Indiegogo campaign for the Astro Slide 5G, the follow up to the Gemini and Cosmo Communicators, all with full mechanical...

There's a good summary feature now over at Android Authority, reviewing five years of HMD Global's Nokia. With some ex-Nokia staff, though notably not the engineers, HMD Global sought to resurrect...

Ben Wood is a name that many know in the wider phone world and it seems that he's been busy in recent years, along with collaborator Matt Chatterley, putting together a physical (of sorts) and...

For years people have praised Google's 'HDR+' (and then 'Pixel Camera') image handling and processing. Originally designed for Google Glass, to make a terrible, tiny camera produce good results, the...

The video embedded below appeared recently on popular YouTube channel DankPods, highlighting the Nokia 9000, the very first Communicator, with a chunky exterior that belay a full Internet (such as it...

Google's Android platform is complicated - it releases the core of the OS to AOSP, Android Open Source Project, which other manufacturers can take and add their own bits to, while it holds the rest...