Nokia 8110 (1996) Nokia is of course a familiar name to our readers, but the phones branded “Nokia” today are actually the product of HM...

Launched September 1996 Back in 1996, most phones were quite brick-like but devices such as the Motorola StarTAC proved that these dev...

Released August 1996 Twenty years ago this month if you were using a Windows PC then it was probably the new fangled Windows 95 (launche...

In production May 1996 The Universal Serial Bus ( USB ) hit the market twenty years ago this month. Designed to provide a standard inter...

Introduced March 1996 Before “always connected” smartphones and tablets, there were PDAs. And for a long time the name synonymous with P...

Launched March 1996 Everybody knows what a smartphone is, right? A slabby thing which is basically a screen and maybe a couple of button...

Launched January 1996 Twenty years ago, mobile phones were big brick-like affairs. But in January 1996, Motorola changed people’s percep...

About 10 years ago, the Motorola StarTAC was probably the coolest mobile phone on the mar...