Available May 1982 If you wanted to put a computer on your desk in 1982, there were a wide variety of choices. Businesses might go a system ...

Launched May 1992 Early mobile phones were terrible things. Not only were they big and clunky, but the old analogue networks that they ran o...

Completed May 1941 Who made the world’s first programmable digital computer? The Americans? The British? The Japanese? Well, in what is perh...

Introduced May 1961 Sometimes products are released that look like they are sure-fire successes at the time, but end up in the long run as b...

HTC Universal in vanilla form and an O2 XDA Exec Fifteen years ago the golden age of mobile phones was in full swing – each generation a...

Software... in a box! Introduced May 1990 By 1990 Microsoft’s Windows platform had been around for five years and had made pretty much n...

Introduced in Japan, May 1980 The Golden Age of Arcade games is in full swing by May 1980, and it sees the launch of a gaming icon – Pac-...

Nokia 3220 Launched May 2004 On the face of it, the Nokia 3220 looks like the sort of fun and inexpensive phone that Nokia used to be s...

Jolla Smartphone (2013) Announced May 2013 A brief history lesson – back in May 2005 Nokia announced their Linux-based 770 Internet Ta...

LG HB620T. Catchy name, huh? Released May 2008 File this one under “W” for “Weird”. The LG HB620T was a strange-looking clamshell phone...

BlackBerry Bold 9000 Launched May 2008 You might say that the modern smartphone revolution started in January 2007 with the launch of th...

No, not SPAM but spam. Junk email. That sort of thing. You've probably seen it. You might even know that the name comes from a Monty ...

Motorola RAZR2 V9 Launched May 2007 We've mentioned many times before that 2007 was a landmark year in the mobile phone industry. ...

Samsung Galaxy S III Launched May 2012 By 2012, the Samsung Galaxy S range had been around for two years and each new generation seem...

Sony Ericsson P1 Launched May 2007 In the early noughties Sony Ericsson had pioneered touchscreen smartphones, starting with the P800 a...

BlackBerry Curve 8300 (2007) and 9320 (2012) Launched ten years ago this month, the original BlackBerry Curve was RIM's attempt to...

Announced May 2007 Ten years ago we were seeing the start of widespread smartphone use, but although these devices were getting increasi...

HTC STRTrk Launched May 2006 Picture yourself a decade ago. The iPhone and Android platforms haven't been invented yet, clamshell ph...

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