Balloon Cell Towers: The 2006 Plan to Bring Wireless Coverage From the Stratosphere
In 2006, Space Data Corp and Extend America proposed stratospheric balloons instead of cell towers for rural North Dakot...
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BlackBerry Reaches 50 Million Sales: RIM's 2009 Smartphone Milestone
In April 2009, Research In Motion revealed BlackBerry had reached 50 million devices sold — a cumulative total, not an a...
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iPAQ 6500 miniSD Wi-Fi: Adding Wireless LAN to HP's Mobile Messenger
How a tiny Spectec miniSD card promised to add Wi-Fi to HP's iPAQ hw6500/hw6515 -- and what its one shared expansion slo...
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Fusion Visual Voicemail for the T-Mobile G1: Early Android Voicemail in 2008
How PhoneFusion's Fusion Voicemail Plus brought visual voicemail to the T-Mobile G1 in 2008, years before Android carrie...
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HP iPAQ hw6515 and the Windows Mobile 5 Upgrade That Never Came
The HP iPAQ hw6515 shipped with Windows Mobile 2003 SE, not WM5 — HP confirmed in 2005 there'd be no upgrade. Here's the...
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iPAQ EFX Solar Charger: Portable Solar Power in the Pocket PC Era
The EFX Solar Charger promised sun-powered juice for HP iPAQ Pocket PCs back in 2005. Here's what Mobility Today's origi...
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Kopin CyberMan GVD510-3D: A 2005 Head-Mounted Display Before Modern VR
A 2005 PC head-mounted display promising a virtual 40-inch screen, VGA-resolution stereoscopic 3D, and 1,000+ game suppo...
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Skweezer Mobile RSS Feeds: Bringing the Web to Phones in 2006
How Skweezer, a mid-2000s mobile web proxy from Greenlight Wireless, added RSS reading in 2005 and later linked up with ...
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Palm Pre Walkthrough: Revisiting webOS and Palm's 2009 Smartphone
A verified look back at the original Palm Pre and webOS: specs, launch timeline, Synergy, Touchstone, and what Mobility ...
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Original MacBook Pro Review: Revisiting Apple's First Intel Pro Notebook
A historical look back at the first Intel MacBook Pro: its January 2006 announcement, shipped specs, battery life, heat ...
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