This year we mostly concentrated on the year ending in "1", covering gadgets and technology from 1941 , 1951 , 1961 , 1971 , 1981 ...

Launched October 2011 Once upon a time, phones were tiny. The smaller the phone, the better was the mantra in the early noughties. A few ye...

Introduced June 2011 Chromebooks are boring. Not as sleek as a tablet, not as powerful as a laptop. They’re for people who think a chicken k...

Tastefulness is a pretty subjective thing. One person's stylish accessory is another person's overpriced tat. The Porsche Design P...

Motorola RAZR XT910 Launched October 2011 Having endured some years of declining sales and frankly pretty awful products, Motorola h...

Launched October 2011 There were a lot of significant new mobile phones released five years ago this October, one of those that has fade...

Launched October 2011 If you wanted to sum up the demise of Nokia in one object, the Nokia Lumia 800 is probably it. Announced five years ...

Launched October 2011 These days we're used to Apple's cycle of iPhone releases - a new product every two years with a upgrade o...

Announced September 2011 Since 2007, Amazon had been selling the highly successful eBook reader, the Amazon Kindle . That simple device ...

Announced August 2011 Five years ago this month, Nokia announced a set of Symbian handsets which were to be among the very last of such de...

Launched June 2011 Five years ago 3D was all the rage. Avatar had hit the movies a couple of years earlier, stoking interest in 3D enterta...

Launched June 2011 2011 was a time of turmoil for Nokia. Having announced in February that they were going to switch their smartphone plat...

BlackBerry Bold 9900 Launched May 2011 By mid-2011, sales of BlackBerry devices were at their peak . Despite competition from the iPho...

Announced April 2011 For years and year the Symbian operating system had been a cash cow for Nokia. Even five years ago with the iPhone ...

Announced March 2011 The second generation of Apple’s successful iPad and Samsung’s less-than-successful Galaxy Tab range were announced i...

Announced February 2011 The history of Palm is a long and complex one , starting in the early 1990s and then going through a series of s...

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Announced February 2011 It's a fact of modern life that people like to play games on their smartphones, so...

The Samsung Galaxy S II is perhaps not an iconic device, but it is probably one of the most important smartphones ever made. It may be a ...

Motorola Xoom (2011) Announced January 2011 The Motorola Xoom was Moto's attempt at competing with the Apple iPad, a device that ha...