







We are a not-for-profit entity created to safeguard the rich history and design diversity of mobile devices which have been launched over the last four decades.
Mobile Phone Museum
We are a not-for-profit entity created to safeguard the rich history and design diversity of mobile devices which have been launched over the last four decades.

Google's Project Ara: Reinventing the smartphone with building blocks
Decentralizing My Smartphone With Single Purpose Devices
Lately, I’ve become nostalgic for the days before smartphones, when the internet was a place we went to deliberately, and not a place that lived on all of ou...

Pluralistic: Installing Android phones in Blackberry chassis (23 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
As much as I admire the techlash, I have some serious reservations. I worry that there's some pretty useful tech babies that we are at risk of throwing away with the bathwater.
Nokia Design Archive
Exploring unseen concepts of design and opportunities of design-driven transformation and change

Not OK, Google | TechCrunch
At its hardware launch event in San Francisco yesterday, Alphabet showed the sweeping breadth of its ambition to own consumers' personal data, as computing continues to accelerate away from static desktops and screens, coalescing into a cloud of connected devices with the potential to generate far more data -- and data of a far more intimate nature -- than ever before.

U.S. K-12 Market for Mobile Devices Remains Flat; Only 2 Percent Growth in 2018
The technology companies powering the devices are finding ways to integrate their products with more partners and by offering new solutions, according to Futuresource Consulting.

Smartphones – Murena – deGoogled phones and services
256GB Storage, 6.67" FHD+ OLED display, 8GB RAM, eSIM technology, Removable Battery
Sustainable Indie Software — Helftone
We have seen a large shift in the app economy over the past 7 years which has had a huge impact on indie software. In many ways, we have regressed to state which is simply unsustainable in the long term. If you only look at the highly publicised successes, you might assume independent developers are rolling in cash. Do not be fooled, the situation on the ground, especially on iOS, is actually very different – many indies are struggling to make a living.
Runcible - Circular Open Source Anti-Smartphone by Aubrey Anderson - Indiegogo
The heirloom, smart pocket device made of sustainably sourced hardwood and upgradable electronics.

Apple at 50: eight technology leaps that changed our world
From Apple II to the iPhone, time and again this extraordinary company has anticipated the value of opening up computing to everyone.

What happened to custom ROMs?
Coopting Disruption
Our economy is dominated by five aging tech giants – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. In the last twenty years, no company has commercialized a new
Invention Cards 3.0: Stories
Last month, after a long hiatus, I showed invention.cards to a friend in SF and came away unsatisfied. Indeed, the work was not yet done . Three things drove this revision: It felt incomplete. The experience was built around T-shaped navigation, focusing on a specific card and showing only their ancestors and descendants. It was hard to see where you were in time, hard to feel the shape of history, and ultimately was far removed from the way a tech tree should feel . The connections matter more than the nodes. What's most interesting to me was not
Fairphone
Nearly three years ago, we started a crowdfunding campaign to finance the creation of our first-ever phone. We had a
The digital exiles: Why people are abandoning their smartphones - Coda Story
A growing movement of “former screenagers” is calling for a screen-free, surveillance-free life, for a chance to build a future beyond tech capture
