Introduced 2001 French cars are cool. That’s a fact. Big French cars are cooler. Quirky big French cars are cooler still. And in 2001, Renau...

Launched October 2001 At the same time that Apple launched their groundbreaking iPod digital music player, Nokia were going for the same ma...

Launched September 2004 Fifteen years ago we were in the golden age of mobile phone design. Although technologically limited compared to the...

Launched September 2014 By 2014 the once-giant BlackBerry had more-or-less faded into insignificance following the disastrous launch of ...

Samsung S9110 Introduced July 2009 The Samsung S9110 looks like a smartwatch, but instead it came several years before what we’d think ...

Launched June 2004 Cast your mind back and think of a classic Nokia. Perhaps you are thinking of the 3210 , the 6310i or the N95 . Whatev...

TAG Heuer MERIDIIST Launched March 2009 A luxury watch can easily cost thousands of pounds, but a good quality luxury watch is a bit of ...

Announced March 2004 The Nokia 7610 was a phone with a rather obvious elephant in the room. Sure, this was a capable Symbian smartphone wit...

Launched February 2004 In these days of big slabby smartphones, it’s easy to forget that in the dim and distant past there was a bit more ...

Launched November 2003 These days all phones tend to look rather similar, but in the early noughties Nokia came up with some interesting ide...

"Ta-dah!" - the Nokia 6280 shows off its party trick Launched November 2003 A pair of handsets from Nokia’s “weird phase” in...

Back in the early days of 3G handsets, it seemed that nobody really knew what the next-generation of mobile phones would look like. Companie...

Launched October 2003 Sometimes Nokia’s weird designs are too weird even for Nokia. The Nokia 3650 (launched in 2002) is a case in point...

Nokia N-Gage (2003) Launched October 2003 During late 2003, Nokia was going through a weird phase with the remarkable looking but rat...

Nokia 7700. Looks weird from the front. Launched October 2003 We’ve argued in the past that the modern smartphone era started with the...

Launched October 2008 Imagine that you are a major mobile phone manufacturer whose sales are on the slide and you are desperately in need of...

Launched September 2003 Fifteen years ago the mobile phone market was still new and exciting. New technologies and features were being squ...

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